NGP Software, Inc.

Company Review Rating

Service rating: 
3.585
Software rating: 
3.501
Price rating: 
3.245
Email: 
sales@ngpsoftware.com
Number of Respondents: 
59
phone: 
202-686-9330
Headquarters: 
Washington, D.C.
Company home page: 
http://www.ngpsoftware.com
Number of employees: 
35
Client examples: 

Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Rahm Emanuel, DSCC, DCCC

Pricing: 
Based on a subscription fee of $500 and up per month. Desktop software is $3,500 with a support fee from $1,000-$2,500/year

National Geographical and Political Software is passionate about its technology as well as its politics. Known to most as NGP Software, the company was started in 1997 by its President Nathaniel Pearlman to deliver database technologies, campaign software, consulting and support to Democrats and their allies. The company is among a handful in the industry niche that is partisan and primarily serves political campaigns and organizations, rather than a broader array of nonprofits and charity groups.

National Geographical and Political Software is passionate about its technology as well as its politics. Known to most as NGP Software, the company was started in 1997 by its President Nathaniel Pearlman to deliver database technologies, campaign software, consulting and support to Democrats and their allies. The company is among a handful in the industry niche that is partisan and primarily serves political campaigns and organizations, rather than a broader array of nonprofits and charity groups.

About the Software: 

NGP’s software tools are available both in Web-based ASP form and as installed desktop applications. The company’s flagship product, Campaign Office Online, is designed to suit the specific management needs of political campaigns when it comes to fundraising, list management, reporting compliance, and managing volunteers. The software tracks data on donations, pledges, events, volunteers, and field workers; generates event, pledge and volunteer reports; sends mass email campaigns, and automatically generates and checks FEC/state reports for electronic filing. “We do a lot of high-end compliance work,” comments Pearlman, mentioning NGP’s work on John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign’s internal and fundraising databases.
For website management, the company’s Contribution Web Package allows clients to accept and track online donations and ecommerce purchases, enable online volunteer registration, and automatically update the information directly into their databases. The software can also be used for Web-based email access and website hosting. NGP has recently introduced a new broadcast email tool to expand the ways people can interact with their data.
NGP clients also use its products for online volunteer registration, email list building and campaign management, secure online contributions and real-time reporting and database integration of email, volunteer and donor information. The firm also has a Web Design and Development practice and offers data and IT consulting.

Client Quick-take: 
Client Close-up: 

Though most software vendors serving the political market take on clients from the left, right and in-between, NGP does not work with Republicans. So, it comes as no surprise that NGP considers its clients to be “campaign partners,” and consults with many of them on website design and promotion, email messaging and online organizing strategies that make the most of the company’s technology offerings. However, although some clients may feel more at ease working with an openly partisan technology vendor, Pearlman stresses, “I don’t think a campaign is going to choose an inferior product because the vendor is in their party. I want them to choose the best choice and I want to offer that.”

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