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PowerVista GlobalFamily

PowerVista GlobalFamily helps you build successful communities of families that share the common bond of international adoption. GlobalFamily is management software that supports volunteer-based organizations dedicated to growing these communities. 

GlobalFamily's primary benefits are:

  1. improve inter-family communication and satisfaction with their membership experience.

  2. reduce the volunteer's administrative burden. 

  3. support customization to meet your community's unique needs.

GlobalFamily manages the relationship between families, agencies, institutions, events and associated supporters by providing comprehensive reporting, data access and ability to accurately oversee activities.

Software Features

GlobalFamily delivers activity-based administrative support for managing the community of international families 

* Family Information with adults and adopted/birth children information including photos, birthplace information, birthdates and family join dates.

* Event registration with separate registration for families, adults and children. 

* Volunteer Organization with unlimited activity set up and assignment of activities to adult members.

* Organization management tools including Dues reports, Directory printing, Egroup maintenance, renewal forms and letters, Agency reports, Institution reports and more. 

* Flexible reporting with an included report writer and pre-set exports to third-party software such as Microsoft Word or Excel.   

Software Built for Change

GlobalFamily is the only membership management application designed to be Software Built for Change. PowerVista GlobalFamily was developed using PowerVista Bridge, a comprehensive database application development environment.  You can enhance GlobalFamily to exactly meet your needs using PowerVista Bridge and the GlobalFamily source code available (free) on the PowerVista web site,. 

You do not have to be a professional programmer to use PowerVista Bridge. The visual development environment makes it easy to change window layout, validation and processing. You can easily add and change reports, create new Microsoft Word documents or Excel Spreadsheets*. The GlobalFamily development Style has step-by-step instructions for making the most common window interface changes to GlobalFamily. Examples are to add database fields, to add or remove fields from windows, or add new functionality. Any change you need to make to GlobalFamily to exactly fit your business can be made quickly and reliably using PowerVista Bridge. If you don't have the resources to make changes, PowerVista staff can make any changes you need. The Enterprise Development Edition of GlobalFamily even includes 10 hours of programming from PowerVista - free.

Installation Options

GlobalFamily Standard Edition is a standalone single-user application. The database used is the PowerVista database, which comes free with GlobalFamily- Standard Edition. 

GlobalFamily Enterprise Edition is a networked application for multi-user access and operates on any ODBC compliant database such as Access, SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle or DB2. License and installation of the selected ODBC database is the responsibility of the customer, PowerVista GlobalFamily connects to the installed database manager. 

Use PowerVista ApplicationServer to install and operate GlobalFamily across the Internet. This installation option supports an Application Service Provider model of delivery or a single and a centralized data repository with remote clients. A licensed and installed copy of GlobalFamily Enterprise Edition is required. Once PowerVista ApplicationServer is installed, remote sites may access, update, print and view GlobalFamily information on the main server.

GlobalFamily Standard Developer and GlobalFamily Enterprise Developer product bundles include the Style Library (development environment) and source code. Changes can be made by a single developer to the GlobalFamily source code and delivered without runtime, royalty or license charges to end users. PowerVista developers are also available on a contract basis to customize GlobalFamily.

*Microsoft products must be purchased, licensed and properly installed before they may be used with GlobalFamily data.

 

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Last Modified: 6/4/2004