Passageways customers are #1 in the "Second City"

The stage has been set for Passageways' fourth annual PowWOW. The W Hotel in the heart of downtown Chicago will provide the backdrop for a truly enlightening and educational conference. Designed to bring all our customers together to collaborate and exchange ideas with the goal of improving how everyone uses the Passageways portal.

The registration fee for the conference is $299 for one attendee and $150 for each additional attendee. Hotel registration and more detailed conference information will be coming your way soon. Mark your calendars for May 7-9, 2008 and prepare to share your Passageways story, learn how to better use your portal and enjoy one of America's most popular cities during a beautiful time of year.

Kitsap CU entry makes two CU Journal Best Practices Awards in two years for Passageways 

Passageways and Kitsap CU of Bremerton, WA have teamed up to win a CU Journal Best Practices Award for internal communication with the Passageways Portal and the Expense Reports module. Passageways won the award in 2006 in the intranet web portal category with NuUnion CU's Passageways Portal implementation.

Passageways Selected by ignite to Provide Corporate Portal System  

ignite, a group that develops, tests, and implements innovative ideas for credit unions, has selected the Passageways Corporate Portal Framework to streamline internal communications and data management.

Created by a joint venture between the Indiana Credit Union League and Indiana’s representatives associated with the Filene Research Institute’s i3 group, ignite operates and implements ideas developed by Filene i3 group at the state level.

The Filene Ideas, Innovation and Implementation (i3) work group is made up of credit union professionals other than chief executive officers who hold substantial responsibilities within their organizations. This discussion forum identifies and evaluates credit unions’ innovations, develops strategies to address problems and identifies and evaluates ideas from other industries that can benefit credit unions.

Click here for the full press release.  

Passageways Joins with Callahan & Associates for Credit Union-Specific Content  

Passageways is pleased to announce a relationship with Washington, D.C.-based Callahan & Associates, a national credit union research and consulting firm, to provide content for the Passageways Performance Dashboard Application.

Callahan & Associates’ 20 years of experience with financial analysis, executive education, strategic planning and investment management provides Passageways’ credit union users with value-added content specific to credit unions. As a result of the relationship, all new Passageways Performance Dashboard customers will receive a one-year subscription to CUAnalyzer, Callahan & Associates’ Internet-based financial analytical tool designed specifically for credit unions. With the integration of CUAnalyzer in the Passageways portal, credit union users will have the ability to access historical financial ratios and trends, compare performance relative to customized peer groups, establish benchmarks and prepare charts and graphs with their personalized portal.

Two new modules for the Performance Dashboard Application featuring data from Callahan & Associates will be available to customers in November. The Intranet Module, a strategic information center for credit unions, will provide users with weekly articles and breaking news from CreditUnions.com, an industry-focused search engine and educational opportunities such as Webinars. The Return on Assets (ROA) Gauge will allow users to gather and view quarterly information from the last five years.

Similar to other offerings by Passageways, these features will be customizable for each credit union customer. Both the Intranet Module and one ROA Gauge will be available to all Passageways credit union customers free of charge through the support center starting in November.

Click here for the full press release.  

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Latest Releases
Portal Framework v3.3 Patch 7	Wednesday November 14th, 2007
e-Forms Builder v3.3.1 Patch 1	Tuesday November 6th, 2007

Please visit our support center to run Live Update to apply these patches. If you need further assistance, please feel free to contact Support at 765-497-8815, or via email at support@passageways.com

Upcoming Product Releases

Product

Nambé, the new version of the portal is underway and we will begin formal development in December!

In Support - Internet Explorer 7

Effective July 1, 2007, our Support Center began providing support on IE7 for all Modules and the Portal Framework.

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Active Directory to the Rescue

Enterprise Instant Messenger (EIM) 3.3.0.0 will be released in early December and the client application that resides on each user’s workstation will require an update. To speed the installation process we want to share an overview of how your organization can deploy the new EIM client (or any other Windows program) to hundreds of computers on your network.

The networks for many of our customer’s run a script when users log in to perform software updates, network drive mapping, and other maintenance operations. This script can be modified to copy an installed EIM client folder onto each computer on the network. Adding a few lines of code to the login script allows registry keys to be installed and a shortcut can be added to the desktop. This gets the EIM client deployed and ready to use. The down side to this approach is that there is no entry in the Add/Remove Programs listing in the Control Panel which means uninstalling EIM would need to be done manually.

The missing link is a program called msiexec. This standard Windows program is a command line utility that runs a MSI installation file and it just so happens that our EIM client installer is a glorified MSI file. For advanced users, the power of msiexec and Active Directory (AD) can be combined to allow you to "Publish" the installer to any workstation using a transformed MSI file. This process works even for users that do not have admin rights to their machine and can be set up to run behind the scenes with no user intervention.

Additional details on transforming your MSI file and steps to implement the EIM client deployment on your network will be included with the release. Additionally, a Knowledge Base article will be posted on the support site (support.passasgeways.com) after the release.

As always feel free to contact Passageways Support at support@passageways.com or 765-497-8815 if you require assistance locating and managing these files.

Portal Framework
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2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (ET)

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Friday, 12/28/2007
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