Missions Horizon
Missions Horizon Management System - MHMS is designed to reduce the burden usually on one or two people to manage a whole organizations short term missions projects.  The goal is to be able to enter data once and share it everywhere it is needed and to spread the workload over authorized users.  For example, users login and enter their own mission application data and designate which trips that they are interested in participating in.  Team leaders then know immediately who to contact regarding their trips. 

Features      

• Multi User Relational Database System allowing users to share data
• Tracks funds, travel data, member data, trip data
• Automates communication via web and email
• Enter data once and share it everywhere
• Group Logic 
• Automated Reporting               

Benefits

• Makes managing short term mission trips a snap
• Spreads the load to many users
• Team Leaders manage their teams
• Reduces accounting errors
• Speeds up the mission trip tracking process
• Interfaces to Excel

User Interface
The whole system is built around a fast point and click user interface. No Data has ever to be entered twice. The longer a lab uses the system the more efficient it will become. Just by regular use, MHMS will capture more and more of the data you use everyday.

Installation
MHMS is designed to be installed on a local area network or LAN. The data file for the database should reside on a machine that can serve the data via a shared drive or folder out to every client machine for MHMS. You may use the server machine as a location to install MHMS on as well. The application must reside on each client and the data file must reside on only the server machine if the users wish to share data and purchasing information.

Network support
MHMS allows all the users that have login in privilege to access the database. It relies on the Microsoft network to provide accessibility to the shared drive.

Data Sharing
MHMS allows you to share information between users to enhance productivity. Information sharing is determined by the Database Security model you set as you install the application. This model works for installations that have one or several people managing mission trips.  Although the sketch shows three users, you could have dozens of users sharing data. MHMS utilizes groups to accomplish a second level of data sharing. The two tier data sharing method allows you configure MHMS so that the right data is only shared by users within the same user group. Every user gets assigned to one or more groups. MHMS then controls what information is available to each user based upon his MHMS login group name. Users in group 1 are not allowed to see information from users in group 2 for example.

User States and Privileges
Using the Security form you can set the User Levels to match the way your operation works. For example; you may set the user to only be able to enter their member data and review their account status. You can set the Admin level user to have the privilege to enter change information about trips, account, teams, projects. etc.,

MHMS Concepts
Trips, teams, travel data, fund raiser data, are considered relative data meaning that there are relationships set up with other data in the database based on these values. Changes made to relative data ripple through all the relationships. That is the nature of a relational database. Most of the time it is natural to have data update every where it is used.  

Enter data once and use it everywhere is the advantage of a database. Once you or anyone using MHMS enters trip data for example,  it is immediately available for everyone on the team to use for scheduling. Everyone benefits from using the system, relieving some of the extra work associated with looking up data.