CDW DATA MANAGEMENT FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS WHY DATA MANAGEMENT? INDUSTRY Nonprofit organizations need to manage and leverage rapidly expanding TRENDS volumes of data to fundraise more effectively, operate more efficiently and maximize your impact. A data management strategy that encompasses data storage, cloud and business intelligence solutions keeps data Ineffective use of data organized and accessible, improves IT control and visibility, lowers costs creates missed opportunities and optimizes analytics. CHALLENGE: USING CDW DATA DATA TO ADVANCE MANAGEMENT 43% YOUR MISSION SOLUTIONS Overwhelming Volumes of Data Data Storage of nonprofit organizations are using • With more data generated everyday, • Unify data storage management their donor data for potential marketing available storage space is shrinking 1 • Streamline data retention policies and and fundraising opportunities. dramatically design a customized data storage blueprint • Lack of well-defined data retention policies that is flexible, secure and easy to manage Donors expect ROM metrics also contributes to data proliferation • Specific solutions: Inefficient Data Storage • Direct-attached storage (DAS) • Need to unify storage management across • Network-attached storage (NAS) numerous sites, staff, volunteers, donors, • Storage area network (SAN) 70% visitors and members • Unified storage • Haphazard or inefficient data storage and • Software-defined storage (SDS) archiving solutions • Flash storage • Need expert guidance evaluating the costs, • Hierarchical storage management of nonprofit funders now request effectiveness and security levels of the impact data or program metrics to multiple storage options available justify donations.2 1iatspayments.com, “Nonprofits are Collecting Big Data, but Most are Having Expectations for On-Demand Data Access Cloud Trouble Using It,” 2014 • Stakeholders expect immediate access to • Cost-effective and easily expandable to 2121giving.com, “The Business of Nonprofits: the information they need, whenever they meet changing needs want it, wherever they happen to be Amplify Your Fundraising Success with • New Technologies and Proven Business Provides anywhere, anytime data access, Practices,” 2015 • Cost-effective outreach, communication supporting collaboration and collaboration depend on convenient, • Integrates data from multiple sources, timely data access helping to drive effective analytics • Securely protects sensitive donor data • Specific solutions: TOP TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS • Backup as a Service (BaaS) • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) EMC IBM NetApp • Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) • Desktop as a Service (DaaS) Splunk Nimble CHALLENGE: USING CDW DATA HELPFUL RESOURCES DATA TO ADVANCE MANAGEMENT YOUR MISSION (Continued) SOLUTIONS (Continued) • Data Center Solutions and CDW • IT Lends Children’s Miracle Network Pressure to Do More with Less Data Analytics and Business Intelligence Hospitals a Hand • Cost pressures and reduced funding make it • Ensure your IT systems and applications • Advance Your Mission with the Cloud increasingly critical to operate as efficiently are running at peak performance levels • CDW Nonprofit Cloud Solutions as possible • Support compliance reporting through • Limited IT staff makes managing and log aggregation updating extensive onsite storage and data • Identify donor/supporter preferences center infrastructure difficult VALUE PROPOSITION and behavior patterns to enhance • Need to meet state and federal fundraising and engagement and lead CDW Nonprofit can help nonprofit compliance requirements to greater retention organizations assess their storage and • Gain real-time access to accurate data data analysis needs as well as build and Optimize Fundraising, Engagement support a smart data management strategy and Impact combined with the right analytics to make effective decisions about how that advances their mission. Working with • Need to understand who their most programs and services are used, determine top vendors, we design and implement promising donors are, where beneficiaries and/or geographic areas customized data storage, cloud and data supporters are located and how they with greatest need, improve emergency analytics/business intelligence solutions prefer to contribute response rate and identify unmet needs that unify data management, streamline data retention and optimize data analytics • Must determine which fundraising methods • Easily extract, sort, summarize and present and are scalable, flexible, secure and easy to are most successful complex data to your board or to donors — manage. Discounted nonprofit pricing may • Communication must be personalized “return on mission” metrics be available for some solutions. and meaningful to build long-lasting • Specific solutions: donor relationships • Software platform • Donors demand transparency and • Hardware components accountability related to their dollars • Implementation and • Need to make smart decisions about configuration services how and where to allocate resources to maximize social impact SPECIALIZED SERVICES CDW Nonprofit’s end-to-end services provide guidance on aligning mission- critical goals with a smart storage strategy, using our team of certified engineers. Services include: • Assessment, planning and design services, including RFP support, engineering design and review, cost assessment and benchmarking, contract negotiation • Hardware implementation services • Software installation services • Data migration services • Managed services that include monitoring, upgrades, maintenance, reporting, Learn more about our nonprofit data solutions contact and hardware and software incident management for storage networking your CDW Nonprofit account manager, call 888.294.4239 solutions. Discounts may be available. or visit CDW.com/nonprofit. MKT10862.