What is Shelby Doing?
ChMS, Church IT, design, on the job, technology
I received an email from Shelby Systems announcing a new product. Shelby Systems is now offering yet another set of programs (called Aspire) beyond its core legacy-offering and its web-based Arena.
Problem 1: the Aspire website is woefully lacking pertinent details…when clicking the “Tour” button, I’m sent to a page that says “This feature is coming soon…” Note the image below. Screen shots are great, but there’s no explanation about this fitting over an existing Shelby DB or if it is all new.
Solution 1: Hire a web design firm (like Stepframe!) They will help you present your website and email communications more clearly and effectively (and there will be no more “coming soon” pages).
Problem 2: the products (Arena and Aspire / Shelby and Aspire) appear in competition.
Solution 2: Take the plunge and lose the legacy aspects of Shelby (it was designed by programmers for programmers), and create a single web-based application.
I would love to see Shelby aspire to modernity!
Dave Stone @ June 9, 2008
Great observations Dave! I am still in the world of Shelby v. 5. When I saw the links to this new solution I read through it like you. Not being technologically savvy like you, I asked, what’s the point? I felt like they were competing with themselves
But then again it is Shelby… I want to be a fly on the wall when they decided to offer bar code nametags for people in Sunday School classes so they could scan themselves in and out of each room in the building so you always know where they are 