Reports: How to Choose Software

Our thoroughly-researched reports compare products and give recommendations to help you make smart software decisions. Idealware’s reports typically start with a high-level overview of the software landscape for a specific purpose, and then detail the benefits and drawbacks of specific software vendors for your organization’s needs. And don’t worry, our funding model (and integrity) ensures that our reports remain unbiased. 

Reports: How to Choose Software

  • The 2013 Field Guide to Software for Nonprofits
    April 2013
      How do you choose software for your nonprofit? With so many different types of software on the market, it’s difficult to even know what’s available, let alone what’s best for your organization’s particular needs. That’s why we created the Idealware Field Guide to Software for Nonprofits, a handy reference that covers all the different types of software that might be useful to you—and we just updated it for 2013.

  • The New World of Donor Management Apps for Nonprofits
    October 2012
     

  • A Consumers Guide to Low Cost Nonprofit Content Management Systems
    October 2012
    We're proud to release our long-awaited Consumers Guide to Nonprofit Content Management Systems, in partnership with Beaconfire Consulting. It’s free to download—just register below.   Generally speaking, Content Management Systems (CMS) let you build a website that can be quickly and easily updated even by non-technical staff members.

  • Getting Your Systems Talking: A Framework to Evaluate APIs and Data Exchange Features
    December 2007
    How can you assess the features that a software package offers to provide access to your data? In this report, Paul Hagen and Laura Quinn provide an evaluation framework that will help weigh the advantages and trade-offs of the data integration features across different applications.This Idealware report was written in partnership with NTEN, and with generous sponorship by Beaconfireand Jacobson Consulting Applications.

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