Digitalisation at the Norwegian Humanist Association
Dea-Renate Miranda, IT manager at Human-Etisk Forbund, presented how the organisation built one unified membership system in Dynamics 365.
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Dea-Renate Miranda, IT manager at Human-Etisk Forbund, presented how the organisation built one unified membership system in Dynamics 365.
In this 2024 talk, Dea-Renate Miranda, IT manager at Human-Etisk Forbund, presented how the organisation built a new, unified membership system on Microsoft Dynamics 365. Human-Etisk Forbund has seen rapid membership growth, from 100,000 members in 2021 to nearly 150,000 at the time of the talk, and needed infrastructure that could handle both the growth and strict privacy requirements around beliefs data.
The work was done together with ProsessPilotene, which built Dynamics and the integration platform, alongside NetLife on the website and OX on the ceremony database. The core lesson was to think process over system and integration over silos: information on members, ceremony customers, elected representatives and volunteers is now held in one place and flows between systems via an Azure Service Bus platform, instead of being maintained separately.
The impact shows clearly in the numbers: case handling across more than 35 scattered inboxes has been replaced by around ten case queues in Dynamics, median resolution time is under three hours, and even a confirmation registration surge at six times normal traffic was handled without problems. Newsletter open rates are well above industry averages, including 78 percent for confirmation guardians.
Miranda named time, leadership and staff buy-in, and a clear mandate as decisive for the large project's success. Planned next steps include better access management for elected representatives and volunteers, a shared analytics platform built on Power BI, and a gradual, deliberate approach to using artificial intelligence in the organisation.
IT-avdelingsleder, Human-Etisk Forbund
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