Over 90 representatives from Passageways credit union and bank customers attended the Passageways Portal PowWOW, April 11- 13^th, 2007 in West Lafayette, Indiana. This annual conference brings together Passageways users from across the country to share ideas and experiences, and has proven to be a much anticipated event for this community of Portal Leaders.

Brian Warfel, Chair -CUNA Technology Council and Gail Koehler, Vice Chair-CUNA Technology Council kicked off this year’s event with their keynote presentation. The next section included presentations from Fifteen (15) Passageways customers who submitted their use of the portal for the “Best Practice Awards” The entrants and winners included:

1. Best New Module
   1. Invoice Processing Module - Kitsap Credit Union (Winner)
   2. Enhanced Search Module - GTE Federal Credit Union
   3. Test Taker Module - IHMV Credit Union
   4. Job Center Module - Redwood Credit Union
   5. Team Apparel Module - Sandia Laboratory Federal Credit Union
   6. Copycat Module - Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union
   7. Sportswear Module - Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union

2. Best Tie-in with Third Party System
   1. Referral Tracker Module - Sandia Laboratory Federal Credit Union (Winner)
   2. Google Search Appliance (ICE) - GTE Federal Credit Union
   3. Articulate Training Tracking Module - Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union

3. Best Use of Portal Framework
   1. Branding and Corporate Identity - Educators Credit Union (Winner)
   2. Scavenger Hunt – Great Lakes Credit Union
   3. Mortgage Application- Sandia Laboratory Federal Credit Union

4. Best Use of Existing Module
   1. Expense Reporting Module - Great Lakes Credit Union (Winner)
   2. Products and Services Module - GTE Federal Credit Union
   3. Products and Services Module - Educators Credit Union

5. Miscellaneous Portal projects
   1. No More email - First Independent Bank of Nevada (Winner)
   2. Extranet Deployment - Educators Credit Union

The conference was also the chosen platform for launching the latest Passageways Module – e-Forms Builder Module. This module was released after 7 months of co-development with 17 Passageways customers and allows portal users to easily design electronic forms and import existing forms such as brochures into the e-forms library. The e-forms library allows portal users to organize and maintain all their forms in one central location. Users of e-forms builder can submit a form for automated processing and approval, if needed. This is just one more way the Passageway Portal Solution is used to centralize and automate organizational information and processes.

Two more new portal functions were also showcased – Passageways Performance Dashboards and Passageways Knowledge Management System.

Christopher Beltran, Co-Founder of Passageways delivered the final presentation and introduced groundbreaking new portal concepts. This was a precursor to the development of the next generation of Passageways portal solution, code named Nambe.

“We are very satisfied with the conference outcome, as were PowWOW attendees. Over 80% of the attendees ranked their PowWOW experience either a 9 or 10 (on a scale of 1-10). The new ideas everyone shared and discussed are truly a testament to the entire Passageways community!” says Paroon Chadha, Co-Founder Passageways.

Some Comments from Attendees:

“Thanks again for an amazing, outstanding PoWWow 2007 Conference. You, Chris, Gail and the entire Passageways staff outdo yourselves every year!”
Anne Conway, Great Lakes Credit Union

“This year’s PowWow was wonderful! See you next year. Thank you!”
Erin Edwards, Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union

“Great Conference yet again”
Marcia Dougherty, Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union

“Another Great Conference! We really appreciate the time, effort and energy you put into this. It shows!”
Anna Nguyen, Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union

“I absolutely liked the presentation with suggested pages/content. This is something I hope to see expanded and continued somewhere”
David Nyhuis, Kohler credit Union

“As always, I truly enjoyed the conference! (Still waiting for it to be held in Vegas!)”
Becky Lawson, South Carolina Federal Credit Union

“Great Job! You all rocked as always. The hard work paid off and I think it was very productive”
Timothy Sanchez Brown, Sandia Laboratory Federal Credit Union