Difference between revisions of "DC2009:Managing Database Projects"

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Community IT Innovators

Help clients in software selection projects

Work with associations primarily, donor management, fundraising

Democracy in Action (Salsa) as cheaper than CapWiz

The Steps to choosing a database system:

What are the requirements, what are they trying to accomplish with the database?
What are the barriers to understanding this? Organizational, don’t know what you need! Do what you need to do to find out what you don’t know!
Clearly define current business processes
CiviCRM: Drupal based, need to find a developer who specializes
Salesforce: commercial product, hosting, leader of cloud computing (customer doesn’t maintain infrastructure at all)
eTapestry: Donor management focus, web-based database
Neon: Online hosted database, non-profit focus, affordable, good for integration
Association Management Systems vs. CRM: membership, trade, etc.
Members Only (DC based)
ISSI