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Ravenna

Score7 out of 10

3 Reviews and Ratings

What is Ravenna?

Ravenna is an admissions and K-12 Student Management system. It replaces the former inRESONANCE SIS, and BigSIS cloud-based school management and student information system, from VenturEd Solutions.

inRESONANCE Improves our Tracking in Every Way

Pros

  • User levels where only certain individuals are able to do specific task. You don't have everyone making changes to fit their needs. Keeps things consistent.
  • The ability to build custom lists. We are able to make the list as specific as we need them to be for our particular organization.
  • The ability to send individual HTML formatted email messages to a specific set of individuals is helpful for the difference phases of our program. Each is able to communicate with their specific phase alone.

Cons

  • There are a lot of terms used for different information in the database. It would be nice if that could be streamlined somehow and more intuitive for the users.
  • There are a lot of details to go through to make custom list or create reports. If you don't do these processes regularly, it seems you are always relearning the process.
  • There was a point when data changes needed to be done in two different places, but I think we may have resolved that issue.

Return on Investment

  • It has provided us with a more consistent, and more accurate reporting system for grants and overall analysis of our scholars.
  • We are all working in a similar way with inputting information into the database which adds to the consistency and accuracy of reporting.

Great for a small start-up on a budget

Pros

  • Customer service in response to problem-solving.
  • Extremely hands-on in making additions to the software on the spot to fulfill a need.

Cons

  • Functionality in terms of splitting gifts when it comes to comprehensive campaigns.
  • Tracking attributes and actions in a way that is intuitive for senior administrators.

Return on Investment

  • Annual fund tracking is very easy and pulling simple things like donors/non-donors is easy. Fine for a straight-forward appeal.
  • If you are going with a comprehensive/combine ask - this is not the tool for you. There's no way to split gifts with % allocation. We're losing money in spending time trying to figure out how to configure pledges in accordance with the software.

Alternatives Considered

The Raisers Edge

Other Software Used

Raiser's Edge NXT, Little Green Light, iWave