Sunday, August 13, 2006

What is Arena?

Reading through the various Arena posts I can see that perhaps we've never really discussed the scope of what territory Arena covers. I always like the way Tony Dye breaks out ChMS functionality and the diagrams he uses. For now though I'm gonna have to bore you with a plain old list.

What Arena Covers Today:

  • Membership Management - Basic tracking of membership information (name, phone, etc.)
  • Ministry Groups - Tracking of who is involved/serving where
  • Small Group - Who is involved in small groups and automation of the registration process.
  • Check-in - Probably one of Arena's coolest features is the check-in component which allows for a flexible/themeable interface.
  • Event Calendar - Provides a event calendar feature that both coordinates the inputing of events as well as their display to the public.
  • E-mail Communications - Provideds an interface for sending personalized bulk e-mails.
  • Marketing - Facilitates the promotion of events and announcements both on-line (website) and off-line (bulletin).
  • Sports - Allows churches to manage their youth and adult sports leagues including the display of schedule information on the public website.
  • Prayer - Allows for the collection, approval, and praying over requests.
  • Website - Provides full content management functionality alone with helpful website components like polls, photo albums, classifeds, business directories, etc.
  • Metrics - Allows for both automated and manual collection and display of church metrics.
  • Reporting - Provideds a user interface to create custom reports and also reports based on SQL statements.
  • Phone Campaigns - Allows for the management of calling campaigns to confirm membership information and allow for small group registrations.
  • IT Assets - Can discover and poll computer inventory information using Active Directory and WMI.
  • Active Directory Sync - Can sync contact information from Arena to matching Active Directory records.
  • Administration - Provides very powerful administrative tools to allow you to customize how Arena works for you.
  • (probably many more that I missed, I'll probably will have to update this over the next few days as people remind me of more features...)

Soon to be completed features:

  • On-line registration
  • Contributions

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