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December 2007 -Another AIRS Client Release!
Version 7.12 of AIRS was released to the AIRS Community. The most significant functions and features include a new Accounting Module (Invoicing, Payments, Statements and QuickBooks export), an AIRS Forum (for AIRS Community members to communicate with each other and IRRIS Technologies, enhanced Donor capabilities, and new reports.
July 2007 -New IRRIS Team Member
IRRIS Technologies expands its services with the addition of Dan McGowan to the team as the AIRS Client Manager. Dan previously worked as a program leader for 20 years in a residential setting for at-risk teens in a non-profit organization in Maine. He will conduct online demos of AIRS, develop and maintain marketing products, and liason between the AIRS Community and IRRIS technical staff. Welcome Dan, and thank you for continuing to help needy children find loving homes by supporting the AIRS Community adoption agencies.
June 2007 -IRRIS Technologies Purchases AIRS
Those who originally designed AIRS, enhanced it's code since it's inception, maintained the system, and provided ongoing support purchased AIRS and formed IRRIS Technologies. IRRIS Technologies' only focus is AIRS - improving its features, adding pertinent functions, and supporting the people within the AIRS Community.
May 2006 -AIRS Version 6.0 Released
We are please to announce the release of AIRS Version 6.0. Just some of the new features in this release include COA Approved Digitial Signatures, an Expanded Security system, a New & Improved Report Manager and an updates to the Email system.
April 2006 - New Team Member Joins the AIRS/IRRIS Help Desk
It’s an exciting time up here in Maine as the AIRS team and product continue to grow. We are pleased to welcome to the AIRS help desk Ian Davis. Ian, who is from Auckland, New Zealand, has settled down in Maine with his wife Aimee and we are delighted to have him here. Ian hold's a Bachelor's Degree in English and is a Microsoft Certified Professional.
January 2006 - New Project Manager
announced for AIRS and IRRIS
Steve Damren, a twenty year project manager veteran, has taken over the reigns
for managing the development teams for AIRS and IRRIS.
In addition to managing the development teams, Steve will supervise the
help desk and training staff. We
are delighted to have him on board!
January 2006 - Hope Cottage comes on board
and 1st quarter goals set for AIRS.
As Hope Cottage of
Dallas,
TX
starts using AIRS, IRRIS Technologies plans for converting existing AIRS clients to the
new IRRIS (Integrated Recording & Reporting Information System.)
IRRIS provides a new Accounts Receivable/Invoicing modules, as well as
expanded security options. Call
today for a free demonstration!
December 2005 - New AIRS community members start
their training!
Several new agencies are in the process of receiving training as they start to
use AIRS to manage their adoption process.
Included this month: Sunny Ridge Farm of Wheaton, Illinois, TDH Pour Les
Enfants, our first Canadian group located in
Quebec
and
Montreal,
and Premier Adoptions in
Nevada
and
Utah
.
November 2005 - Boston Home For Little Wanderers
supports AIRS expansion
After using AIRS for two years to manage the process for their adoption and
foster care programs, The Home contracted with IRRIS Technologies to expand the system by
adding a new module CIS (Client Information System.)
This new module, along with AIRS, now exists under the umbrella of IRRIS
(Integrated Recording & Reporting Information System.)
This powerful new system allows for providing additional support and
information tracking for children throughout the agency.
In addition to tracking adoption and foster care, the Home is now able
to track in the same database, ‘enrollments’ into over 30 programs, including
group homes, residential centers, and schools.
July 2005 - IRRIS Technologies Welcomes Catholic Social
Services To Client Roster
IRRIS Technologies is pleased to welcome Catholic Social
Services (CSS) to the AIRS Community! This Kansas-based organization needs to
integrate five separate databases, each of which tracks specific information
ranging from adoptive family records to donor records. CSS is turning to AIRS
in part because AIRS's ability to track multiple roles for the same individual
or group will allow easy integration of those databases and dramatically
decrease data entry duplication.
June 2005 - San Diego County joins the AIRS
Community
San Diego County (SDC) becomes the first government agency to join the
AIRS community. SDC comes to AIRS with almost 50,000 typed and hand-printed 5x7
or 3x5 file cards dating from 1949 that need automation. IRRIS Technologies helped
develop a system that starts with scanning each card then integrating primary
contact information into AIRS. AIRS software organizes the scanned card images
as easily as it stores family pictures. Soon instead of searching through
physical stacks of cards, SDC employees will be able to search on a client's
name and retrieve an electronic image of each card.
When the head of SDC clerical support was shown a beta version of the system,
complete with links to the scanned images, the first words she uttered were
"It's beautiful!" IRRIS Technologies is pleased to be able to help this government agency
automate its files to better serve its clients.
May 2005 - The Cradle Goes Live!
The Cradle, which completes both domestic and international adoptions
as well as having the oldest nursery program in the country, has joined the
online AIRS community! . AIRS Software allowed The Cradle to integrate its
nursery information seamlessly into its domestic and international adoption
information. To expand the usefulness of its information, AIRS now offers the
ability to track birth parent consideration of adoptive families as well as
each child’s presentation history.
After detailed data analysis and planning, IRRIS Technologies completed conversion of the
legacy system into 40,000-plus AIRS contact records. IRRIS Technologies
spent a week training over 50 Cradle employees so they were able to hit the
ground running the day The Cradle’s AIRS system came on line. IRRIS Technologies staff
created custom reports for The Cradle to provide agency-specific detailed
information tracking. With six offices in two states, The Cradle now uses AIRS
software to maximize its responsiveness to clients.
April 2005 - AIRS at the JCICS
Conference
After using AIRS for two years to manage the process for their adoption and
foster care programs, The Home contracted with IRRIS Technologies to expand the system by
adding a new module CIS (Client Information System.)
This new module, along with AIRS, now exists under the umbrella of IRRIS
(Integrated Recording & Reporting Information System.)
This powerful new system allows for providing additional support and
information tracking for children through out the agency.
In addition to tracking adoption and foster, The Home is now able to
track in the same database ‘enrollments’ into over 30 programs, including group
homes, residential centers, and schools.
March 2005 - AFIS has been implemented
It’s Here! The new AFIS (AIRS Forms Integration System) has been successfully
implemented with the National Adoption Center in Philadelphia, the first to
implement the new system. AFIS provides the tool sets to communicate directly
with NAC’s web site forms in such a way that the data collected through eight
various forms are transmitted into AIRS after passing secure checks. AIRS
duplicate checking system prevents data from coming in twice.
NAC is using AIRS to track their Wednesday’s Child programs in and outside of
the Delaware valley. AIRS automatically creates contact records for interested
families and cross references the families with children in the program. AIRS
automates communication nation wide to coordinate efforts. AIRS reports will
provide NAC and other associated groups with statistical and pipeline reports
as well. Call 888-313-9123 for more information about AFIS.
January 2005 - New AIRS release
**NEW FEATURES** The AIRS release in January provided the AIRS community with
expanded tool sets. Those include the ability to expand beyond the already
robust tool set allowing users to define and generate “One-to-One” forms as
well as allowing users to generate powerful “One-To-Many” forms. It’s an
extremely user friendly system. Request a demo today: Demo
Request Form
The new release of AIRS was flawlessly rolled out to the AIRS community with
dozens of new enhancements, including 16 new reports.
December 2004 - IRRIS Technologies awarded new contract
IRRIS Technologies has been awarded a contract from “The Boston Home For Little
Wanderers” to develop an agency program based on AIRS. The Adoption program at
The Home has been using AIRS since 2003 with great success – so much so, that a
“Contact Information System” CIS will be developed based on the AIRS platform
to manage the data needs of 32 other programs, including Residential and Group
Homes, Consultation programs, After School programs, Community Support,
Children’s Centers, Schools, Outreach programs, Substance Abuse Prevention,
Foster care and more.
This robust program will provide all the necessary data management requirements
for these programs. With strict security access at several levels, the new CIS
system will eliminate duplicate data gathering across programs and will provide
the agency with rich data mining and report capabilities as well.
Oct 14, 2004 - The Cradle Society signs on with
AIRS
For more than 80 years, The Cradle has been highly regarded as one of the
country's foremost adoption agencies. Over the years, they have placed 14,000
children into permanent, loving homes. IRRIS Technologies welcomes the Cradle and we look
forward to building a strong relationship.
May 19, 2004 - Project Oz joins the AIRS
Community as the 8th Agency using AIRS
Beginning May 19, 2004 Project Oz Adoptions, Inc. a Maryland and Pennsylvania
licensed non-profit adoption agency has joined the AIRS Community. Founded on
the strong belief that all orphan children deserve the opportunity to be
adopted, Project Oz staff have over 100 years of combined experience in Health
Care, Social Work, and Family Counseling. Today the focus of Project Oz is not
only the children being adopted but also those who are not eligible for
adoption and face a childhood in an institution. The AIRS staff look forward to
assisting Project Oz in every way possible.
April 13, 2004 - IRRIS Technologies welcomes Children's
Hope International as the newest member of the AIRS community
As of April 13, 2004 Children's Hope International is officially the newest
member of the AIRS community. With office locations in 12 different states, and
more abroad Children's Hope International is a well known player in the
adoption industry. Beginning in 1982 as an International education institute
CHI started out assisting in adoptions. Today they place over 800 children a
year from countries like China, Russia, Colombia, Guatemala, India and Vietnam.
CHI was also one of the first agencies to begin adoptions in China and for that
reason were often known as China's Children. They were also one of the first
agencies to receive Accreditation by the Russian Ministry of Education to
legally place children from Russia. IRRIS Technologies would like to
congratulate Children's Hope International on their achievements and welcome
them to the AIRS community.
March 22, 2004 - AIRS version 3 raises the bar
for adoption software functionality
IRRIS Technologies today announced the latest release of AIRS-the
adoption information and reporting software. Being delivered to AIRS clients
this week, AIRS, Version 3 features increased functionality in virtually all
AIRS components.
AIRS Version 3 features a number of enhancements suggested by AIRS users. The
most significant changes include:
• The Contact Information screen has been redesigned and now includes virtually
all the information related to a contact on just one screen.
• Availability of all case related notes and documents from one screen. Notes
and related documents can be attached to or omitted from reports as needed.
Linking from one case to related cases is also a new enhancement.
• Agency created online forms can be customized using AIRS template models.
Online forms can be used to gather and report a variety of data related to an
activity such as social history.
• Using letter templates, personalized letters can be created for an entire
group of contacts such as all members in an adoptive family, a donor list, or
sponsors. Letters can be stored and attached to an individual or group and can
appear on a case management report.
• The My Task section has been enhanced to display task due dates with overdue
tasks listed first. All tasks are searchable using a variety of criteria such
as: open/closed tasks, start date, end date, placement stage, case worker,
program, sub-program and more.
Release of AIRS Version 3 ”raises the bar for adoption software functionality,”
AIRS is the most comprehensive adoption agency information management solution
available today, utilizing a web-based platform to make data management and
utilization efforts more manageable and more effective.
January 28, 2004 - AIRS version 2 spurs
IRRIS Technologies growth
Adoption agencies, historically an under served market, have at long last found
a software system designed to meet their data utilization needs. The software,
AIRS-the adoption information and reporting software, is a product of IRRIS Technologies
of Fairfield, Maine.
AIRS was originally developed at the request of Maine Adoptive Placement
Services (MAPS). Like other adoption agencies, MAPS required a software system
to meet its complex and dynamic data utilization needs. AIRS provided the
solution. “AIRS is an extremely easy system for users to understand.
Productivity is up, our training costs have been kept to a minimum and most
importantly - it is very flexible and user friendly,” said MAPS’ Karen
Prescott. From this beginning, IRRIS Technologies, in close cooperation with the adoption
industry, developed AIRS, version 2.
The warm reception given AIRS, version 2 by adoption agencies has spurred
significant growth for IRRIS Technologies. "AIRS
has earned the trust of adoption agencies because of its flexibility and the
simplicity of its design that helps them customize AIRS with little or no
outside assistance.” AIRS is the most comprehensive adoption agency information
management solution available today, utilizing a web-based platform to make
data management and utilization efforts more manageable and more effective.
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