Converia vs. In-house Development
When digitizing their conference management, universities and large organizations face a choice between in-house development and standard software. An in-house solution can be tailored precisely to their own processes, but comes with ongoing maintenance effort. Converia is a customizable standard solution that is continuously developed further.
Summary
In-house development offers complete design freedom, but requires ongoing responsibility for operations, security, and new legal requirements. Converia takes on this responsibility as standard software and can be adapted to individual processes through configuration and APIs. This limits in-house development effort to truly special requirements.
The key differences at a glance
In-house development ranges from a simple registration tool to a complete conference platform and offers maximum design freedom for forms, roles, workflows, and interfaces. However, development and maintenance effort grow with the scope of features, for example for payments, invoicing, review, program planning, and check-in. On top of this comes ongoing responsibility for hosting, updates, data protection, and IT security.
Converia provides registration, abstract management, review, program planning, payment processing, and check-in as already connected processes developed for conferences. Configuration and customization layers as well as APIs allow adaptation to individual requirements and integration into existing systems. Regular updates take care of adjustments for GDPR, accessibility legislation, e-invoicing, and new technologies.
FAQ
Can Converia accommodate individual requirements?
Yes. An integration layer and APIs connect Converia to the organizer's IT ecosystem. Account managers advise you on how best to implement special requirements.
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