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Are you a Fellowship One customer, but you ask yourself whether your church is really using the system to its full potential? Have I got a deal for you!Many of our customers have been asking us to sponsor a users’ and developers’ conference and so this year we are. It is being held May 17-19 in Frisco, Texas (just north of Dallas). We ...
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Last night I received a call from the field from one of our Delivery Managers. For Fellowship Technologies, a Delivery Manager is a consultant who works with a church partner (customer) to assist them with their implementation of Fellowship One. The purpose of the call was that the Delivery Manager wanted me to know that the church partner could ...
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Sometimes we come across a church that puts a halt to a software selection process because they come to the realization that they may not need a new church management software solution. Why? Because they find out that they are underutilizing what they currently have. Of course, many times they are encouraged to not look for another solution by ...
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When a church considers its brand, does it ever think about its church management system? Often, when a church thinks of its brand, it thinks about its outreach message—meaning the logo, web site, and marketing, but rarely does it consider its church management system. Quite often, the church management system is just referred to ...
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A fundamental building block that will allow a church to better care for its people is better quality information. However, if the church’s ministries are allowed to NOT use the church management system and its underlying database of people, they will end up keeping valuable information somewhere else. That central database is ...
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I have been working with churches and their church management systems for nearly three years and one of the things that I find interesting is the fact that for some churches the ministries use of the central database is optional! The reasons vary from: the system does not do what we need it to do; it is too hard to use; there is not enough ...
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This is a great story by someone who evidently goes to a church without Fellowship One. It is a story about The Church with the T-Rex in its lobby. Would someone attending your church have a similar experience?
Many times we are so familiar with our church and the experience that we have in it that we do not take into account the experience of ...
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In my last blog, I commented about the difficulty of a church writing its own software. In my humble opinion, an even worst business practice than a church writing its own software is modifying a software package that was designed to support another industry or feature set. This is just a bad idea, period. I remember trying to do ...
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I am always skeptical of a church that even contemplates writing its own Church Management System (ChMS). In fact, even before I was involved with the spin out of what was known as Switch at the time from Fellowship Church, I questioned the church’s efforts of writing its own software. It is a complex and expensive ...
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Fellowship Technologies recently released our new reporting functionality we call Reports 2.0. Reports 2.0 is our foundational work that will help move Fellowship One reporting to a whole new level. This new release really leverages the power of AJAX so that the screens do not refresh when reporting parameters are changed or ...
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It appears that the vision and reality of SaaS (Software as a Service) has attracted the largest independent software vendor (ISV), SAP. SAP is a large enterprise application software company out of Germany that created a big craze in the 1990s and obtained a good majority of commercial America to consolidate its data needs under a single ...
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In the early 1990’s, Dr. Michael Hammer touched off an entire wave of reengineering work with his July 1990 Harvard Business Review article titled: Reengineering Work: Don’t Automate, Obliterate. There were many, many consulting practices in the private and public sectors built on the concepts Dr. Hammer wrote about. However, as I get ...
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We celebrated our 2nd birthday at the Creative Church Conference on and shortly thereafter signed our 300th church as a Fellowship One partner. January was a good month with the signing of a couple of large mega-churches (churches with over 6,000 in TWA) as well as a host of smaller churches looking for an Internet-based church management solution ...
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I have said it before, check out how many staff members in your church are really using your church management system. The more people who use it, the more up-to-date and relevant the information is and will be. I am amazed at the lack of ownership of the data that some churches have concerning the information in their church management system. If ...
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Even though we participate in more and more conferences every year, because of our heritage, C3 (Fellowship Church’s Creative Church Conference) is a big deal for Fellowship Technologies. We celebrate our founding, we get to see old friends and customers who make the trip from out-of-town and we get to meet new ministers and prospects ...
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Well, it is that time of year again – time for the C3 Conference at Fellowship Church. It also the time of year that we celebrate the founding of our company!
I want to thank all of our customers for their on-going support during these past two years. Being a start-up software service offering a new approach to solving a complex problem ...
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Since the New Year is upon us, I thought I’d use this blog entry to answer a question I get quite frequently - why do churches buy Fellowship One? A church buys Fellowship One for reasons that are specific to that church. It is really about value and the value that a church places on Fellowship One differs based on the needs of that church. ...
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One of the key differences between Fellowship One and many of the more traditional church management systems is that Fellowship One is built to be a ministry tool used by the entire church staff. Since we have come to market, other software vendors have jumped in to say many of the same things – and anyone can “claim” ...
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Do you really want one-size-fits-all?
When Fellowship Technologies first started we had a single edition called Fellowship One – Enterprise Edition. As a customer of Fellowship One – Enterprise Edition a church has unlimited everything of what we offer – unlimited check-in stations, unlimited transactions, unlimited ...
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People Matter . . . So, We Count
Mark Waltz - Granger Community Church
If you have never started a business, to do so requires that many decisions be made. A subset of these are: what to call the product (Fellowship Church referred to the internal project as ...
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