Partnership Will Enable K-12 Private Schools
to Create Digital-First Experiences to Modernize the
Admissions Process
CHARLESTON, S.C., May 8, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB), the leading provider of
software for powering social impact, today announced a strategic
investment in UBIQ Education, innovators in school websites through
the introduction of AMAIS, the first digital experience ecosystem
(DXE) for schools.
The £4 million ($5 million)
investment in UBIQ demonstrates Blackbaud's commitment to
supporting K-12 private schools in being able to effectively seek,
identify and cultivate the right families for their
community—supporting all aspects of their online admissions,
fundraising, recruitment, and inclusion initiatives.
The focus of the investment will be on delivering a native
integration, extending Blackbaud's Total School Solution to include
UBIQ's AMAIS platform, giving Blackbaud customers direct access to
a cutting-edge suite of marketing and admissions tools with
seamless data integration across the platform. This investment
gives Blackbaud customers the ability to leverage UBIQ's immensely
powerful first-party AI and ML data platform and strategically
positions UBIQ as Blackbaud's premier partner in the delivery of
website solutions.
Blackbaud will continue to deliver its own solution, Blackbaud
School Website System, as an integrated product within its
education portfolio. By partnering with UBIQ to deliver an
integration with Blackbaud's products, Blackbaud is offering
schools an upgrade option that provides enhanced digital marketing
capabilities, without losing out on the power of a connected system
enabled through Blackbaud's Total School Solution.
UBIQ was founded in 2021 with the objective of completely
transforming every aspect of how a school website could be created,
curated and managed. The company's over-arching mission is to
democratize data for the marketing, admissions and advancement
departments while facilitating data-driven decisions that yield
better outcomes.
"In a very short space of time, UBIQ has partnered with many of
the most prestigious and significant schools in the world," said
Mark Davis, vice president,
education products, Blackbaud. "These schools are realizing
tremendous value from UBIQ's cutting-edge digital marketing
platform that's helping them to modernize their school websites
while driving success across the campus by providing an exceptional
digital experience for families and the entire school community.
UBIQ enhances the value of Blackbaud's Total School Solution while
providing schools a compelling choice to manage their school
website and digital marketing needs."
"It is no coincidence that many of these forward-thinking
schools are Blackbaud customers, so it makes total sense to bring
both companies closer together through a strategic investment,
partnership and integration of this nature," said Daniel Clarke, CEO and founder of UBIQ. "I am
excited to see what this collaboration will bring to provide even
more value to our customers."
Blackbaud and UBIQ have already delivered an initial round of
integration whereby UBIQ-powered schools can seamlessly pull
academic, athletics and directory data automatically from Blackbaud
Student Information System™. With this investment, Blackbaud will
continue to work closely with UBIQ to modernize the admissions
process by empowering Blackbaud Enrollment Management System™ with
UBIQ's DXE to enhance the experience with personalized digital
content and automated inquiries, allowing schools to build stronger
relationships as they direct families through admissions and
enrollment.
Ken Hyde, Assistant Head of
School for Enrollment Management and Parent Relations at
Porter-Gaud School, shared, "By moving our website to UBIQ,
Porter-Gaud is seeking to deliver a best-in-class, flagship
experience that personalizes the experience for all families and
connects their interests with what the school can provide for their
children. We are excited to see how Blackbaud and UBIQ working
together will help us exceed our school's strategic goals while
providing a powerful and unique experience to our school's
community."
About Blackbaud
Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB) is the
leading software provider exclusively dedicated to powering social
impact. Serving the nonprofit and education sectors, companies
committed to social responsibility and individual change makers,
Blackbaud's essential software is built to accelerate impact in
fundraising, nonprofit financial management, digital giving,
grantmaking, corporate social responsibility and education
management. With millions of users and over $100 billion raised, granted or managed through
Blackbaud platforms every year, Blackbaud's solutions are
unleashing the potential of the people and organizations who change
the world. Blackbaud has been named to Newsweek's list of America's
Most Responsible Companies, Quartz's list of Best Companies for
Remote Workers, and Forbes' list of America's Best Employers. A
remote-first company, Blackbaud has operations in the United States, Australia, Canada, Costa
Rica and the United
Kingdom, supporting users in 100+ countries. Learn more
at www.blackbaud.com or follow us on X/Twitter, LinkedIn,
Instagram and Facebook.
About UBIQ
UBIQ continues to transform the school
website market in education. By giving schools access to
cutting-edge technologies in content management, asset management,
digital experience, first-party data collection and AI/ML. This
allows UBIQ's customers to make data their competitive advantage –
ensuring schools have the necessary information to create the right
message, at the right time, delivered through the right channel and
personalised on a 1:1 basis. This inevitably leads to better
outcomes and in turn, a much higher ROI than they have been used to
in the past. To learn more about UBIQ visit:
https://ubiqeducation.com or follow us on X/Twitter, LinkedIn,
Instagram and Facebook.
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regarding expected benefits of products and product features.
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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
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appearing herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Blackbaud, Inc.
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