After 20 years in the industry, ClubRunner has announced their redesigned their Club Management software. The new version name is 'ClubRunner Nova' and the subscription price will not change to migrate. Note, a lot the change is technology behind the scenes and may be less visible to clubs.
The software platform has been redesigned to use newer technology. Speed, scalability and performance has always been an issue, so they decided to migrate everyone's data to the secure 'Microsoft Azure' cloud platform. Rapid 'Cloudflare' technology will handle the DNS traffic routing and sophisticated security and Twilio's SendGrid will replace their current email platform. Internally Azure's Cosmos DB will host club data. This will prove significantly faster than locally hosted SQL databases. Here is a picture of their new architecture platform. We will see secure Multi-factor Authorization added to the current log in process very soon.
Going forward, ClubRunner for Rotaract clubs will be free subscriptions (somewhat trimmed from the standard club package). All this will reflect significant perfomance increase. Migration is said to be seamless. Regardless our club anticipates the need to back up things like customized email templates etc. All this will allow them to add features easily, allow more individual customization by each club and expand product offerings going forward. Again, we hear there will be no significant price change to migrate. Look for this new version to roll out during 2024. Obviously, ultimately migrating will not be an option, we will be testing along the way this year.