Parishes and Dioceses

Do you know who your top 100 donors are? Do you know how much their pledges and donations are increasing or decreasing this year? Can you tell how much your congregation is growing or declining in specific neighborhoods? Can you tell how well your ministries, retreats, socials and other activities improve stewardship? The fact is, if you are using just your parish membership and accounting systems to answer those questions, you have very little “hard” information on the changes and trends happening in your congregation. Which means you cannot make informed decisions in some very important areas.

Variance Explorer ^TM provides that critical information and allows you to see where problems and opportunities are.

Your Challenge

If you are managing a parish, you are probably concerned with a number of performance indicators, including:

• Number of parishioners and value of their regular donations (or pledges)
• Number of volunteers and number of hours donated
• Number of children and parishioners attending religious education classes, retreats, etc.

You want to monitor weekly and monthly performance at various levels of detail, such as:

• By parishioner family
• By location (neighborhood, town) of the parishioners and volunteers
• By type or method of donation (pledge, subscription, envelope, etc.)
• By type of class or retreat
• By ministry and type of volunteer work performed

Variance Explorer ^TM - Your Solution

Variance Explorer ^TM offers an “out-of-the-box” solution for the parishioner-data systems of parishes. The solution has already pre-defined a large number of charts and drill-down trees that you use to generate spreadsheet reports on all those indicators.

We provide these critical features to deliver actionable information from your systems:

• Repository: Automatically extracts and stores transaction data over multiple years.
• Underlying trends: Automatically removes seasonal and cyclical factors to expose underlying trends in your data.
• Drill-down trees: Just point and click to see sub-totals or grand totals at any level of detail.
• Headlights: Visual before-and-after analysis of the impact of any internal or external event.
• Spotlights: Automated searching for the parts of your operations undergoing the most positive or negative changes in performance.
• Highlights: Point out the net impact on your resources if trends and changes continue.
• Reviews: Recording of your actions and targets, and comparison with actual results over time.

Together, these features provide the essential information you need to succeed in an exceptionally demanding environment.

How to get Variance Explorer ^TM

Any of our certified resellers can install the software and integrate it with your existing parishioner database.

Within hours, Variance Explorer ^TM will analyze years’ worth of your data and show you charts that highlight where your problems and opportunities are.

You will receive an immediate ROI from that first session. And continuous benefits from then on, as the solution monitors your progress and alerts you of changes to pledges, donations, membership and attendance in the different communities you serve.

Variance Explorer ^TM is like having your own personal consultant helping you manage your resources so you can focus on serving your parishioners.