He subsequently purchased RightFax and a Windows NT server and hired a consulting specialist. Our world changed, he recalls. NJBA had consolidated its 30-odd committee, membership, conference and subscription databases into a single customized Microsoft Access 97 database application in June 1997. When RightFax was installed in April 1998, the database integrated seamlessly with RightFax through Windows ODBC linkage and serves as the fax phonebook for all staff members. There is seldom a need to generate labels or envelopes for mailings anymore.
Staff can simply fax out material to multiple recipients in a matter of minutes.
Each department within NJBA has its own fax number so that inbound faxes can be routed through the NT fax server directly to designated departmental workstations. RightFax has been so dynamic that we doubled the number of phone lines used by the fax server from four to eight just four months after the initial installation, he says, allowing us to fax all conference notice mailings to the 1,200 names on our list. And in combination with aggressive pricing from our new long distance and regional toll carrier, we achieved significant decreases in our information distribution costs. In the 22 months following the installation of RightFax, NJBA has sent out more than a quarter-million faxes. Doherty and his network technology consultant were so sold on RightFax that they both took the four-day RightFax technical training class in New York in June 1999.