How much time do you spend juggling data from one application to another? If you're like most nonprofits, the answer is too much. That's why we're pleased to announce the official release of a new report from Idealware and NTEN, "Getting Your Systems Talking: A Framework to Evaluate APIs and Data Exchange Features".

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“Getting Your Systems Talking: A Framework to Evaluate APIs and Data Exchange Features” is a new guide to data portability. The guide is available at http://nten.org/research/talking and includes a comprehensive report and evaluation worksheet. While the problem of data portability has been clear for some time, solutions were in short supply – until now.

Following the success of NTEN's report on Open APIs, Paul Hagen and Laura Quinn provide an evaluation framework that will help weigh the advantages and trade-offs of the data integration features across different applications. The report provides an overview of what data portability is and many of the ways it can be accomplished.

The detailed evaluation tool included in the report will make it easier to put these ideas into practice. Evaluation worksheets provide a rating system for everything from availability and quality of documentation to technical considerations in order to help nonprofits standardize their research into new software.

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This report was published with underwriting from Beaconfire Consulting and further support from Jacobson Consulting Applications.

About Idealware - www.idealware.org
Idealware provides candid Consumer-Reports-style reviews and articles about software of interest to nonprofits. Through product comparisons, recommendations, case studies, online seminars, and software news, Idealware allows nonprofits to make the software decisions that will help them be more effective.

About NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network - www.nten.org
NTEN aspires to a world where all nonprofit organizations skillfully and confidently use technology to meet community needs. NTEN is the membership organization of nonprofit technology and program staff and technology providers. NTEN provides social networking and professional development opportunities, discounts on products and services, and research, advocacy, and education on technology issues affecting the nonprofit sector.

About Beaconfire Consulting - www.beaconfire.com
Serving nonprofits in the evaluation, design and implementation of Internet technology. Our philosophy and our people make Beaconfire unlike any other nonprofit technology consultancy. We are a professional services firm committed to our values, our clients and a set of principles that make us unique.