Church Managment Software Solution

After spending the better part of the past 12 months researching church software packages, our team of volunteers headed up by myself and my DB manager, Ron Jobe, the decision was made to stick with Shelby Systems for the remainder of 2007 and look at moving to Arena in 2Q08. Arena was determined to be the best software package to meet our needs but several things factored into our decision not to "pull the trigger" at this time. While Arena currently seems to be a quality product right now, there is some hesitation being an early customer when potential glitches are still more prone to occur. We are also very interested in seeing other products that are currently under development such as Proclaim. I will be at the Spring Church IT Roundtable in Houston next week where some new software packages will be unveiled. I will be blogging about what I find out and learn at this roundtable event.