Fellowship One

Development Complete: Jul 2011
Scheduled Release: TBD
(after rolling this out to a handful of churches, we have discovered a number of things that need to be resolved to give you a more reliable solution, we apologize for the delay)

Reporting Analytics is an extremely powerful reporting tool, giving you a great deal of flexibility and access to your data. Fully trained users will be able to build complex reports that join together disparate sets of data, as well as control the data output fields and format. These user defined reports can be published for other users to access.

• Access will be made through a direct web address; not through F1 portal.
• You must have at least one reporting security right to be authenticated.
• Data sources include: Contributions, Groups, Ministry and People.
• Contributions and Ministry data sources are only visible to those with the requisite security rights.
• The “Ministry Report” security right gives access to all Ministry data regardless of specific ministry rights.
• An assortment of “Global” reports pre-defined by FT will help get you started; you can copy these and modify them as desired.
• Any report definition can be saved with the option of sharing it among staff.
• Throughout the process of defining the report, you are encouraged to constantly preview the data, make a small change, and preview the data again; this ensures clarity in the definition process.
• You are given full control over what is displayed and how to display it including sort, group, and arithmetic function.
• You control color, pagination, order, and header/footer details with the Style section.
• Chart options include: Trend, Pie, Plot, Bar, Funnel, and Gauges (similar to a car gauge).
• You can export as doc, csv, mime, xml, and rtf.
• Clicking on a saved report immediately runs the request and presents the data; with the option to limit the results to 1, 10, 100, 1000, or all records.
• Grouped data results are presented as "live" and can be drilled in upon.
• Column headers can be used to quickly sort results on the fly.

Considerations:

• This solution is complex and capable, as such it requires that you complete a 1-2 day certification course on Reporting Analytics in an effort to to improve your productivity.
• Ad Hoc Reporting does not replace the Report Library, rather it augments it.
• Approximately 70% of the data is represented with more being added.
• Once you are “turned on”, historical data will begin being collected; i.e. – status changes can be viewed over time.

-- We love and appreciate all comments, but in an effort to improve productivity we will not typically respond until timing is most relevant; please be patient. --