The new version ISIDOR 8.1 is currently in the quality assurance phase and will be rolled out to the test systems of the ISIDOR Community from the end of August.
Find out now about the enhancements and improvements of the version with the help of the ISIDOR 8.1 release notes, which you can download as a member of the ISIDOR Community in the “New software versions” section at the end of this website.

This year’s Forum Kirche.Geo.IT took place together with our partner, alta4 AG, at the Kolpinghotel “mainhaus Stadthotel” in Frankfurt am Main. Under the motto “Digitalization of the Church”, 60 participants from 30 different organizations such as dioceses, regional churches, charities and religious orders were welcomed. The varied agenda offered inspiring presentations on topics such as the current Sinus-Milieu study from the latest church membership survey, the use of support chatbots for church IT, digital data strategies and cybersecurity. In addition to networking in a convivial atmosphere, there were also discussions on new developments such as the integration of ISIDOR and businessatlas. The ISIDOR community decided on four development packages and plans to connect Azure AD to ISIDOR. We would like to thank all participants for their valuable contributions and active participation in the forum.

Next year’s conference will take place in Erfurt.
Make a note of the following dates now:

Mon, 5.05.2025: Arrival day
Tue, 6.05.2025: Forum Kirche.Geo.IT
Wed, 7.05.2025: Forum Kirche.Geo.IT
Thu, 8.05.2025: ISIDOR Community

Forum Kirche.Geo.IT

In order to reduce support activities within internal IT, the approach for support seekers has been rethought and is now based on the motto “Helping people to help themselves”. The first step was to set up a structured help page from Westernacher Solutions, which initially provides an overview of the status of the IT systems and answers the first frequently asked questions. However, the site also offers a help form which forwards support requests directly to the responsible persons. The next development step for the website is the integration of an intelligent FAQ search and a support chatbot.

To the EKHN-HILFE page

On 7 March, the members of the ISIDOR community from 15 major church organizations met online for the first meeting of 2024. In this context, Ms. Tina Grammann from the diocese of Fulda and Ms. Martina Wergin (see illustration) from the archdiocese of Hamburg were elected chairpersons of the Community. Ms. Grammann is thus continuing her work as Chairwoman and Ms. Wergin is providing support for the first time in the form of dual leadership. Thank you very much for the work you have done and your willingness to lead this important office! The representatives of the Archdiocese of Freiburg took part in the meeting as full members for the first time. Welcome to the ISIDOR Community! Thomas Hielscher, the new ISIDOR Quality Manager, presented the quality assurance measures relating to the ISIDOR product and Mr. Scheich, Head of the Church Division at Westernacher Solutions, explained the new primary fields of action – personnel management, data hub, address management and administration – on which the cooperation of the ISIDOR community will focus in the coming months.

We are delighted to welcome the Archdiocese of Freiburg as a new member of the ISIDOR community. After a promising prototype project, the Archdiocese of Freiburg decided to launch the ISIDOR implementation project with the company Westernacher Solutions. The archdiocese has chosen “printed works” as the first ISIDOR building block. The Archdiocese of Freiburg will participate as a full community member at the next community meeting in March 2024.