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  • Evaluating the various Church Software SaaS Offerings

    I recently read an article in a Christian technology journal called An Introduction to SaaS in which the author defined the term Software as a Service (SaaS) as ''an application designed to be accessed on the Web rather than installed on the user's workstation. Though the software is Web-based, it is not browser-based. Instead, the software ...
    Posted to Daily Concerns (Weblog) by  Administrator  on January 28, 2008

  • 2007 OnDemand Conference

    One of my commitments to our partner churches is that Fellowship Technologies will stay current on what is happening in the overall software and technology industry. I came from that market and want to bring the best business and technology concepts from the commercial world to the church world. Along that vein: we are currently moving Fellowship ...
    Posted to Accelerating the Dynamic Church (Weblog) by  jhook  on November 14, 2007

  • Managing change versus avoiding change

    Although I used to think that you should not break something if it is not broken; I am now convinced that in order to make improvements, change must happen and that change requires you to break things in order to build other things. If change is to happen, old processes and old habits, no matter how well they are working, must be broken to ...
    Posted to Accelerating the Dynamic Church (Weblog) by  Jeff Hook  on October 3, 2006

  • IT Headcount – How “loaded” is your team?

    I recently returned from a lunch with the head of IT for a mega-church here in Dallas, who also happens to be one of our customers.  One of his parting comments was one I have heard him say several times before about the size of his IT staff versus that of the typical mega-church in America.   The comment refers to the fact that many ...
    Posted to Accelerating the Dynamic Church (Weblog) by  Jeff Hook  on September 27, 2006

  • Cost Considerations – Part 2: TCO – Total Cost of Ownership

    In part 2 of my 3 part series on software cost consideration I will address the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) concept and why the price of software itself, whether it is a SaaS (Software as a Service) or of the client-server flavor, is just a portion of what needs to be taken into account when considering your software alternatives. To start ...
    Posted to Accelerating the Dynamic Church (Weblog) by  Jeff Hook  on September 7, 2006

  • New Functionality... Reports 2.0

    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 ...
    Posted to Accelerating the Dynamic Church (Weblog) by  Jeff Hook  on February 28, 2006

  • A Whole New Way . . . Software as a Service (SaaS)

    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 ...
    Posted to Accelerating the Dynamic Church (Weblog) by  Jeff Hook  on February 27, 2006