CHARLESTON, S.C., Dec. 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/
-- Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB), the world's leading
cloud software company powering social good, continues to
transform the higher education technology landscape and demonstrate
growth just a year after introducing its comprehensive Cloud
Solution for Higher Education. Blackbaud, which powers 24 of the
top 25 private U.S. colleges as ranked by Forbes with its
solutions, has been the trusted technology partner for higher
education institutions for decades. Today, with its most
comprehensive solution to manage the complete student
lifecycle—from admissions to alumni engagement—Blackbaud is
increasing revenue, driving efficiency and deepening engagement for
colleges and universities.
"A year ago, when we introduced our Cloud Solution for Higher
Education, we knew it was just the beginning," said Tim Hill, president and general manager,
Blackbaud Higher Education Solutions. "Since then, we've been on
the ground with institutions to understand their evolving needs and
how we can continue to innovate to help them thrive in the rapidly
changing higher education landscape. As a result, we're introducing
new capabilities like talent management and seeing greater adoption
across institutions."
Key outcomes and enhancements for the Cloud Solution for Higher
Education, include:
- A growing number of Blackbaud CRM™ customers are leveraging the
power of Microsoft Azure's world‑class cloud service to support
their advancement needs. To build stronger relationships, expand
campus-wide collaboration and develop the infrastructure needed to
support future growth, institutions such as Georgia Tech
Foundation, University of New Hampshire
and University of Western Ontario have
gone live on Blackbaud CRM. Other institutions such as Baylor University have recently selected Blackbaud
CRM to meet their complex needs.
- Blackbaud recently introduced its talent management
capabilities, providing institutions like University at Buffalo and University of Maryland College Park Foundation, the
first online performance tracking tool for fundraising leaders and
managers, enabling transparency, proactive management and peer
officer benchmarking.
- Institutions, including University of
Delaware, University of Maryland
College Park Foundation and Villanova
University, have selected Blackbaud Fundraiser Performance
Management™ to improve the effectiveness of their fundraising
programs through a tailored approach that includes custom
predictive models, peer benchmarking, pipeline management and
purpose-built gift officer tools.
- Blackbaud Guided Fundraising™ is enabling annual giving teams
at institutions, including Ball State
University, Dordt University, Goshen
College and Lewis University, to
scale their multi-channel, person‑to‑person fundraising
strategy.
- Blackbaud Stewardship Management™ is transforming donor
relations for many institutions of all sizes by making it seamless
to collect powerful impact statements from award beneficiaries to
the donor—providing personalization and connectivity at scale to
simplify a formerly time‑consuming process.
- In addition to its momentum and growth with large and mid-size
institutions, Blackbaud is seeing continued adoption of its
education management solutions for small institutions. Blackbaud's
education management portfolio has helped institutions like
Williamson College of the Trades to
integrate each facet of their operations, from back-office
processes to student engagement, to deliver a better experience to
students, faculty and staff.
For more information about Blackbaud's Cloud Solution for Higher
Education, visit www.blackbaud.com/highered.
About Blackbaud
Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB) is the
world's leading cloud software company powering social good.
Serving the entire social good community—nonprofits, foundations,
companies, education institutions, healthcare organizations and
individual change agents—Blackbaud connects and empowers
organizations to increase their impact through cloud software,
services, expertise and data intelligence. The Blackbaud portfolio
is tailored to the unique needs of vertical markets, with solutions
for fundraising and CRM, marketing, advocacy, peer-to-peer
fundraising, corporate social responsibility, school management,
ticketing, grantmaking, financial management, payment processing
and analytics. Serving the industry for more than three decades,
Blackbaud is headquartered in Charleston,
South Carolina, and has operations in the United States, Australia, Canada, Costa
Rica and the United
Kingdom. For more information, visit
www.blackbaud.com or follow us on Twitter,
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contained in this news release are forward-looking statements that
involve a number of risks and uncertainties, including statements
regarding expected benefits of products and product features.
Although Blackbaud attempts to be accurate in making these
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circumstances might differ from the assumptions on which such
statements are based. In addition, other important factors that
could cause results to differ materially include the following:
general economic risks; uncertainty regarding increased business
and renewals from existing customers; continued success in sales
growth; management of integration of acquired companies and other
risks associated with acquisitions; risks associated with
successful implementation of multiple integrated software products;
the ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks associated
with management of growth; lengthy sales and implementation cycles,
particularly in larger organization; technological changes that
make our products and services less competitive; and the other risk
factors set forth from time to time in the SEC filings for
Blackbaud, copies of which are available free of charge at the
SEC's website at www.sec.gov or upon request from Blackbaud's
investor relations department. All Blackbaud product names
appearing herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Blackbaud, Inc.
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