Often this herculean task involves reconciling the decentralized, heterogeneous structures frequently encountered in associations. But how do cloud and IT service providers manage to make the digital infrastructure secure and user-friendly across generations? The German Life Saving Association (DLRG) faced this challenge a few years ago. The Augsburg-based IT company SEWOBE GmbH was able to help. It developed a software solution for centralized, simple, and efficient member management that is hosted securely and with full data privacy compliance in the cloud of the German IaaS provider IONOS Cloud.