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Montana Freemason April 2017 Volume 93 Number 1 Montana Freemason April 2017 Volume 93 Number 1

Breakout Session at the 151st Communication

GRAND VIEW SOFTWARE

After almost ten years of using ROLLS, we are faced They have stringent backup and disaster recovery
with the need to transition to another Secretaries’ processes that are managed and maintained by their
Program. Like many things, the shelf life and support team of system administrators.
of ROLLS is ending. We have been exploring options
for several months. During the recent Conference of Continual Improvement
Grand Masters and Conference of Grand Secretaries Their business model is unique in that they’ve adopted
of North America, we had the opportunity to visit with a philosophy of continual improvement. Their systems
several vendors and came to the conclusion that this are never going to be ‘done, they’re constantly working
product most closely will provide the next generation of with Grand Lodges and secretaries to develop solutions
a Secretaries program. that address their real world needs and leverage
technology like never before.
Grand View is a comprehensive web platform that
provides an encrypted portal where Grand Lodge, Grand View releases new functionality on regular
Constituent Lodges, and individual members can intervals. They have arrangements with some of the early
communicate and interact on-line. Over the last adopters of their systems to test and prove new systems
few years Grand View has evolved from a simple before they are rolled out across the board. Whether you
membership management database into a platform want to be on the bleeding edge or stay back a little and
with nearly endless possibilities. With multiple grand let others experiment, Grand View allows you to use
jurisdictions, hundreds of lodges and hundreds of and adopt technology at your own pace.
thousands of memberships being managed, Grand View
has literally gone from a drawing on a napkin to the The best part… All enhancements are included with
leading Masonic software application. your subscription to Grand View! When features are
added or completely new functionality is created,
In their short tenure as a Masonic software provider every jurisdiction has access to those improvements.
they’ve seen multiple attempts to copy their ideas and By applying the collective knowledge of all of their
systems. This can only mean one thing… they are doing users Grand View provides a platform to advance all of
something right! Their strength lies is in the systems Freemasonry.
they built and the people backing it up. Grand View
is constantly undergoing development and continual
improvement. With the help and wisdom of current
clients and constantly pushing the envelope, exploring
new functionality and ideas.

Their goal is simple…
Enhance the Masonic experience by leveraging
technology and collective knowledge without sacrificing
personal interaction, privacy, or tradition.

Safe Secure Reliable
When implementing new technology into an existing
organization they’ve found too often, that privacy and
security have taken a back seat to functionality. Just
because you need a password to log in or get permission
to join a group doesn’t mean the data is secure.

At Grand View they take security and privacy seriously
in everything they do. From maintaining applications
and patching servers to verifying encryption and access
control they take the worry out of implementing new
functionality. Their systems are hosted and stored in
their own data centers on our own database servers.

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