I’m excited to see that ACS is now employing people to focus on software architecture. Due to a number of circumstances, they ended up with about 7 different unconnected calendars across their various products. Now, with the help of architects like Jamey, they are working to integrate their products more and more.

While all the pieces aren’t there, the future is bright, just looking from the calendaring perspective alone, here are some of the ideas that we’re looking to employ in our church.

• Integrating Facility Scheduler (FS) with an EMS to control HVAC systems. This reduces energy consumption and personnel costs!
• Integrating FS with our alarm system to arm and disarm the building on a schedule
• Integrating FS with our door locks to lock and unlock doors on a schedule
• Integrating FS with digital signage around the campus to display coming events
• Integrating FS with LCD screens by the doors of rooms to display what’s happening in that room
• Integrating FS with our Web site to display upcoming events
• Integrating FS with Outlook (where our users spend most of their time) to display calendar events
• Integrating FS with services like Upcoming.org to publicize events

All of these things work to reduce operational and personnel costs, which translates directly to more money ending up in missions and ministries.

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1. dalvis Says:
   July 30th, 2008 at 2:01 pm

   Your desire for increased efficiency to improve stewardship encouraged me greatly. Sometimes I worry we can too easily use ministry $$ to acquire stuff for the sake of acquiring stuff and get our focus off of keeping the main thing the main thing. God Bless You.