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Kintera Sphere Overview
Organizations of all sizes in the nonprofit, government, education and corporate sectors use Kintera’s award-winning technology and services to manage emarketing, communications, programs, services and online fundraising. Built with input from thousands of nonprofit professionals and volunteers, Kintera Sphere has a unified database and workflow tools that set the industry standard. Kintera Sphere CMS | Kintera Sphere CRM | Kintera Sphere Email | Kintera Sphere Payment Services | Recorded DemonstrationsWe have recorded a series of brief demonstrations of Kintera Sphere (please click here to request access), covering the following aspects of the system:
Software as a ServiceThe Kintera Sphere platform is delivered online on a subscription basis. This ‘Software as a Service’ solution is affordable, scaleable, can be rapidly deployed, and alleviates the need for expensive hardware, in-house software and Website hosting. All that is needed to access Kintera Sphere is a computer with Web access. Your Kintera Sphere account is accessed online through a login on the Kintera website. Engineered on a unified code base, Kintera Sphere is unique in that all of the areas operate together seamlessly – no “integrated” or cobbled-together parts that may or may not work well together. What this means to our clients: Kintera Sphere is a stable, reliable platform that faces none of the uptime, data integrity and management problems of competing platforms. Modular SolutionsKintera Sphere is comprised of solutions with each focused on a specific need. The use of modular solutions provides flexibility and enables Kintera not only to deliver those components that you need today, in a unified fashion, but also promises to efficiently support future growth. Whether you start with one solution or a combination of solutions, Kintera will be able to accommodate your growth needs. Integration FlexibilityWe utilize industry standard file exchange formats such as comma-separated value, XML and fixed formatted text files, which enables Kintera Sphere to easily integrate with most standard software applications. ArchitectureKintera’s architecture was designed specifically to handle thousands of organizations simultaneously. Kintera provides a highly redundant, scaleable, secure and high-performance hosting environment. We deliver an SLA of 99.98% uptime reliability for all hardware and software. OverviewThe Kintera Sphere platform provides organizations with a complete suite of online management tools to build community and advance their mission. Kintera Sphere was developed over five years in conjunction with numerous nonprofit organizations. A full team of strategists, marketers, project managers and engineers support Kintera Sphere, making it a highly reliable and proven technology platform. Your Kintera Sphere account is accessed online through a login on the Kintera website. Kintera Sphere is comprised of functional modules, with each focused on a specific need. The use of modules provides flexibility and enables Kintera not only to deliver those components that you need today, in a unified fashion, but also promises to efficiently support future growth. Whether you start with one module or a combination of modules, Kintera will be able to accommodate your growth needs. Our complete online solution includes Email Communications, Content Managed Website, Friends Asking Friends® Thon, Special Events, Workplace Giving, Major Gifts, Advocacy, Fundraising, Membership Association, Volunteer, Donor Advised Funds and Special Commerce all driven by a single unified Supporter Database with Contact Relationship Management (CRM) database. All online activities and interactions between your constituents and your organization are recorded centrally in this database.
Kintera Sphere DevelopmentKintera is constantly innovating our product. With over 90 individuals in our Engineering department, we are committed to providing nonprofit organizations with the most advanced software available. Additionally we believe that Kintera Sphere development is most appropriately driven by our clients’ needs. Client requests for product features, upgrades and enhancements are continually logged and form an important part of our product development process. Requests are gathered by the project managers and entered into the product enhancement database. The Product Development, Engineering and Senior Management teams meet regularly to plan the product development road map. All product updates are immediately made available to all Kintera clients – there is never a charge for upgrades, you will not have to install new software or upgrade hardware and there will be no disruption to your service. Integration FlexibilityWe utilize industry standard file exchange formats such as comma-separated value, XML and fixed formatted text files, which enables Kintera Sphere to easily integrate with most standard software applications. ArchitectureKintera’s architecture was designed specifically to handle thousands of organizations simultaneously. Kintera provides a reliable, secure and high-performance hosting environment. We deliver an SLA of 99.98% uptime reliability for all hardware and software. A client would be “hard pressed” to match our hosting environment, which consists of a Microsoft DNA architecture with multiple front-end web servers, redundant SQL servers and load balancers. |
Kintera’s technology enables volunteers, members, donors and staff to share real-time data and information to foster a powerful sense of community and achieve common goals. Content management and production, personalized communications, advocacy and delivery of programs and services within the community fuel growth and promote your organization’s mission.
