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Arise software has provided database services for the last 17+ years that we administrate to 9 of our trusts.  David has the experience and knowledge to achieve our goals, vision, and aspirations for our Trusts.

The service and assistance from Arise is consistent and reliable, I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Arise Software to anyone.

In the past 3+ years we have been working very closely with David to create the brand-new online database/grants service for one of our biggest Trust. David created a personalised website for us to administer whakapapa, registrations, and grants for over 8,000 members. A lot of trial and error has been exercised, as our Trust is always evolving and Arise moves with us to always improve our services to our people. Prompt assistance in this project was always provided. I think if I had to criticise Arise it would be there is not enough time in the day for our masses of project changes to be complete within a short time frame, with being allocated a certain number of hours per month you need to prioritise what jobs are the most important. Overall, we are confidant and satisfied with the mahi Arise does for us and will continue to work with them.

We have been encouraging owners to bring their enquiries to us for the last three years but as we didn’t control the Share Register this was not always effective. “Having regular contact with the Iwi is important to our office, as it keeps us grounded and to that end we investigated moving the Share Register from GHA, Accountants and running this ourselves.”

Following an investigation into options and also to continue to drive reduced costs, we have found a very robust Computer system, named GD Pro which will enable us to maintain the register and update successions and other transactions. Audit reports are able to be generated to ensure that every entry is traceable. This will mean considerable savings for us as, with our ever growing ownership list, comes greater administration costs and much of this has been alleviated by using our existing staff to do this.

We were fortunate that through our Committee of Management member Kiriwaitingi Rei, we were able to see this program demonstrated at the Maori Investment Ltd office who have the same program, they are using it to help them trace owners, create effective methods to deal shareholders who have very small shares and make their AGMs more efficient.

Whilst it will take time to reach that level of detail in the short-term we should be able to deal with a number of anomalies in the Share Register such as, deceased owners, incorrect spelling, owners with multiple names and tracing unclaimed money to reduce this.