Advantages of BDI's Membership Management Technology (MMT) Platform
BDI provides its MMT Platform as a foundation application for your membership website. BDI distributes the MMT software application services and solution across a wide area network from a central data center using an ASP deployment model.

What is an ASP? An ASP (Application Service Provider) deploys, hosts and manages access to an application from a central location. This delivery is accomplished via the Internet. Customers usually pay for the service based on a monthly subscription.

The ASP model is a proven method of implementing new applications and technologies without risking large investments or burdening internal IT departments. BDI uses the ASP model to supply you with a turnkey, BDI-maintained web-based solution for adding and managing user memberships and for receiving and managing member credit card payments. 

By using the BDI MMT platform technology and services, clients derive the following benefits:

 Eliminate the risk of large IT investments of staff, dollars and time to market delays
 Rapid deployment of a time proven, database driven integrated membership management and e-commerce platform capable of supporting your Internet membership customer base
 Minimizes the expenses and risks incurred across the application life cycle
 No software licensing and maintenance expense; allows you to concentrate on growing your business
 Helps you control the total cost of technology through scheduled payments
 Reduced risk-without a large capital outlay, you are able to test the your website/system before full rollout with minimal impact to your current operations
 Hardware and Application security is provide via a state-of-the-art data center
 Security, Scalability and Disaster Recovery or all managed by BDI
 Better Reliability and Availability---think of BDI as like a utility, just like your power, water or telephone; the management of your membership data is always available simply by launching your web browser