Product Update Briefings to Take Place
Virtually Nov. 12-15
CHARLESTON, S.C., Nov. 12,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB), the
leading provider of software for powering social impact, is kicking
off its semi-annual Product Update Briefings today. The
Blackbaud Product Update Briefings virtual conference showcases
recent innovation and future roadmap direction for Blackbaud's
suite of solutions.
"In the last year, we've been investing in key advancements and
AI technology that will empower our customers to achieve greater
impact with our essential software," said Sudip Datta, chief product officer, Blackbaud.
"During our Product Update Briefings, we'll be giving customers a
first-hand look at the latest developments, further exploring the
six waves of innovation that we announced at this year's
bbcon."
Built specifically for fundraising, nonprofit financial
management, digital giving, grantmaking, corporate social
responsibility and education management, Blackbaud's essential
software accelerates impact through unmatched expertise and
powerful data intelligence. Following onto the six waves of
innovation recently announced at bbcon 2024, Blackbaud will share
how its products drive more connection and deliver more context.
Attendees will hear from product experts across the company as they
review roadmaps, offer previews, and discuss themes for longer-term
development. In some cases, customers can learn how to get early
access to new tools and provide feedback that shapes feature
development.
Highlights will include:
- Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT®: Blackbaud will share
previews, plans and timelines for transformational user experience
enhancements like a reimagined home page that surfaces key
insights, including benchmarks, fundraising performance trends and
other KPIs for each user, as well as a new, highly scalable
navigation system. Other enhancements include new event
management features, more communications and consent preference
capabilities, new query and reporting capabilities, and the
continued transformation of gift management workflows to a unified
view. In addition, Blackbaud will share exciting updates for the
Prospect Insights feature that puts the power of AI in the
hands of fundraisers to help them identify, qualify and cultivate
major gift prospects. Previously available only in the U.S., a new
version of the solution built specifically for Canadian fundraisers
will soon be available.
- Financial Edge NXT®: With Payment Assistant now
in Limited Availability for U.S. customers, Blackbaud will share
how this feature automates and accelerates vendor payments,
directly within Financial Edge NXT, ensuring vendors are paid
quickly and on time. This feature helps nonprofits and other social
impact organizations safeguard financial data and decrease risk of
fraud while streamlining reconciliation and reducing
transaction and check cost. In addition, the team will share more
Accounts Payable automation tools coming soon, including
AI-powered Document Intelligence Scanning that allows users
to effortlessly upload invoices in any format, leveraging AI to
extract key information and generate the invoice in Financial Edge
NXT, helping reduce errors and improve efficiency, all with a
smoother user experience.
- Blackbaud CRM™: Blackbaud will share more about
powerful new connectivity options, including native
integration with Blackbaud Donation Forms, including the Optimized
Donation Form that has already seen strong adoption by Raiser's
Edge NXT users. In addition, a new Red Arc Marketing Connector will
enable Blackbaud CRM cloud-hosted customers to directly connect to
their preferred digital marketing solutions, like Constant Contact,
Mailchimp, HubSpot or Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
- YourCause® from Blackbaud®: Blackbaud is making
significant progress in connecting social impact and corporate
impact customers by simplifying and accelerating the process for
nonprofit customers to receivecorporate donations through Blackbaud
Merchant Services™. By early 2025, YourCause will directly disburse
corporate employee donations to Blackbaud Merchant Services charity
customers, accelerating the donation to distribution process
and bridging Blackbaud's social and corporate impact
technology.
- Data Intelligence: Blackbaud is announcing it will
leverage identity resolution services from LiveRamp, a
leading data collaboration platform. Aligned with Blackbaud's
Intelligence for Good® strategy, this announcement represents a
significant investment in core technology. With improved identity
resolution powered by LiveRamp, Blackbaud will be able to more
accurately match records of wealth, charitable giving, spending and
more to constituent records. This will result in more actionable
predictions and insights, stronger constituent relationships and
better fundraising for customers utilizing Blackbaud's wealth
screening and predictive modeling services.
- K-12 Solutions: Blackbaud will share more details about
exciting AI innovations coming to its K-12 education portfolio,
including an At-Risk Student Tool that will help teachers identify
students in need of extra support by consolidating data on
attendance, test scores and work completion. In addition, the team
will share how new partner solutions are making it easier for K-12
customers to extend and enhance their solutions, with UBIQ
Education for school websites and BrightArrow for mass
communication functionality.
View the full list of Product Update Briefing sessions and
register here.
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, India and the
United Kingdom, supporting users
in 100+ countries. Learn more at www.blackbaud.com or
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Forward-looking Statements
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information, all of the statements, expectations, and assumptions
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
forward-looking statements, it is possible that future
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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