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Associations | Educational Institutions | Non-Profits

Associations

"xCatalyst has changed the way we relay information to our members. It has made our website the tool it always needed to be. Our website is now a primary tool for disseminating current information on advocacy issues, fundraisers, local activities and even serves as a greater education and outreach tool. From direct service to consulting, I am very pleased with ESX, Inc."

Pat Murray
Executive Director
Coastal Conservation Association  

"The best part was that it didn't need to be re-invented. It is a working solution."

Melinda Eggenberger
Vice President
Lex Mundi

"ESX, Inc.'s customer service is incredible - when we need something we don't need it a month from now - we need it now. And we get it. Improvements are made immediately; they are open to new ideas, move quickly, and have unbelievable response time."

Jean Maddalon
CFO
American Business Media

"ESX, Inc. seemed to understand our business better than I did. When we were talking about the system design they were able to connect all the dots. They just get it."

Jean Maddalon
CFO
American Business Media

"ESX, Inc. took the time to understand what our needs were. The final thing that sold me were the glowing client references. They were just spectacular!"

Jean Maddalon
CFO
American Business Media

"With xCatalyst we manage renewals for more than 25,000 members with two data entry people - half as many as it would take the old, manual way."

Katie Jones
Membership Manager
National Association of Mortgage Brokers

"We were able to launch our 2006 Retention Rally Update racing themed page all in-house. I didn't have to wait for programmers or pay a designer. We saved money and it was fun!"

Katie Jones
Membership Manager
National Association of Mortgage Brokers

"Our website has become one of our premier communication tools for disseminating information to our chapters, members, and the general public. ESX, Inc. and the xCatalyst software platform have elevated the performance of our site while simplifying its operations."

Pat Murray
Executive Director
Coastal Conservation Association of Texas

Educational Institutions

"Once again ESX exceeds my expectations! Thanks for the good work and the quick response time."

Lawanda Sanders
Development Services
Rice University

Peter Davis
Director of Information Technology
UMBC Department of Professional Education and Training

"The system is so robust and easy to use that we have developed multiple custom features enabling us to market the business school more effectively."

Debra Thomas
Director of Public Relations
Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business

"With xCatalyst, our website directly talks to our member database so updates are automatically available internally and externally as soon as changes are made."

Ricardo Latapi
Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities

"Prior to xCatalyst, managing a simple one-time event consumed about 3 days' worth of staff time. With xCatalyst's Dynamic Forms and email marketing tools, the IT department will be out of the loop enabling program managers to manage events in about 3 hours."

Peter Davis
Director of Information Technology
UMBC Department of Professional Education and Training

Peter Davis
Director of Information Technology
UMBC Department of Professional Education and Training

"Our website was static and non-engaging to our visitors. With a newly designed page by ESX, Inc.'s creative group, coupled with the interactivity of xCatalyst, our site will be more engaging and more efficiently convey information to potential students."

Peter Davis
Director of Information Technology
UMBC Department of Professional Education and Training

"Since implementing the xCatalyst online catalog module, our online registrations have increased 49% and during our peak registration periods we have reduced our phone staff from 2.5 to 1.5 FTE and registration staff from 1.5 to 1 FTE."

Janelle DuPont
Assistant Dean and Director of Communications
School of Continuing Education, Rice University

"ESX, Inc., with its renowned expertise in serving education and non-profit communities, offered HACU the software and support to best, most cost-efficiently serve our fast-growing community of members and partners."

John Moder
Senior Vice President and COO
Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities

"HACU has embraced the latest, cost-effective technologies to create a truly dynamic website that will offer around-the-clock access to our myriad resources for students, higher education institutions, the public, public policy makers and our corporate and federal partners."

Antonio R. Flores
President and CEO
Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities

"Our enhanced website will provide HACU tremendous new opportunities to dramatically expand our efforts to promote Hispanic college and career success."

Antonio R. Flores
President and CEO
Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities

"We see xCatalyst as a total solution for creating an interactive community with our numerous audiences, handling event registration, and offering a variety of marketing tools. ESX, Inc. has proven itself a long-term partner that can meet our current Web needs and handle the capacity we plan to generate in the future."

Debra Thomas
Director of Public Relations
Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business

"Continuing Studies new site gives us the capability to fully manage Web content for the first time."

Mary McIntire
Dean
The School of Continuing Studies, Rice University

"This is a new way of thinking about the web, where the visitors decide where their interests lie and go to a website designed especially for them."

Suzanne Stehr
Managing Editor
Rice University

"Listening to your audience is the basis for every good marketing plan. This is Rice's way of listening to its audiences. And updating is so easy in this system that, if you can use Microsoft Word, with very little training you can manage your Web content."

Suzanne Gschwind
Dir., Web and Print Communications
Rice University

"The new Faculty Reporting System Module is easy to use and its dynamic features reduce the amount of staff time needed to keep the web pages up-to-date. The xCatalyst software platform has really helped us with our web initiatives, both from internal perspective with our faculty reports and allowing us to be more efficient in getting information to our public."

Debra Thomas
Director of Public Relations
Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business

"With xCatalyst, our website directly "talks to" our member database, so updates are automatically available internally and externally as soon as changes are made."

Ricardo Latapi
Assistant Director of Special Finance Projects
Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities

"The xCatalyst platform allows us to manage our website content with a team approach, reducing costs, bottlenecks, and separate web operations."

Deb Root
Director of Communications
Alfred State College

"xCatalyst provided a robust platform with a lot of capabilities to handle our functionality needs. These included event registration, content management, membership, online credit card processing, online forms, and listserve."

Brad Burke
Managing Director
The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship

"ESX, Inc. is always there for me 100% of the time. I know they can think out of the box - they are good at that!"

Suzanne Gschwind
Rice University Public Affairs

"ESX, Inc. provides a total solution. Association Catalyst integrates our Website and member database so that information is constantly updated, we only have to make changes once, and members find our Website much easier to use."

Ricardo Latapi
Assistant Director of Special Finance Projects
Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities

"The "Website Bottleneck" problem at Galveston College has been eliminated and the website workload stress in the IT depeartment is gone. One IT employee spends about half-time running the system administration and training content managers, a savings of at least one FTE."

Chhaya Gala
Director of Information Technology
Galveston College

"People comment that our Website looks great! That makes everybody happy. Moreover, the front page displays the calendar of upcoming events that are always current, which also makes everyone happy."

Chhaya Gala
Director of Information Technuology
Galvestion College

Non-Profits

"ESX, Inc.'s xCatalyst gave NTech Collaborative the ability to deploy a content- and function-rich web portal in a very quick period of time and with a minimum of staff/contract/volunteer resources. xCatalyst offers us the same efficiencies regarding maintenance and further development."

John Cory
NTech Collaborative Manager
Tulsa Area United Way

"The new xCatalyst enhancements will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our agency's internet based interactions with their clients, volunteers and donors in more ways than I think we can even guess at this point. Mark one up for the good guys!"

John Cory
Manager, Ntech Collaborative
Tulsa Area United Way 

"We found that the xCatalyst offered a powerful solution complete with all of the tools that we needed for building our community portal, and for a reasonable price."

Andrew Huang
Director of Marketing
Alley Theatre

"xCatalyst allows us to lessen our needs for technical skills to manage our website and utilize personnel with skills core to our operations."

Jennifer Garza
Director of Marketing
The Alley Theatre