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