Charleston, SC (PRWEB) September 18, 2013
The Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce recently presented Blackbaud with the Technology Award in the large business division of its 2013 Greater Austin Business Awards. The awards program is a competition organized by the Chamber to honor excellence in business in the greater Austin, Texas region.
Blackbaud Austin was honored in the technology category for developing an integration solution between a large volume online/digital fundraising, marketing, and advocacy solution and a full-featured CRM solution. The solution was challenging and innovative from the design and implementation perspective. Developers took a creative approach, leveraging a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) enterprise service bus model.
This solution creates value for nonprofits by:
Providing a 360-degree view of accurate, reliable donor data
Reducing the manual effort and risk associated with manually moving data between systems
Ensuring that the data is always the most recent by not having to wait for manual imports/exports
Creating a fault tolerant environment to mitigate risk of data loss
Blackbauds largest customers have quickly adopted this integration solution and have processed over 100 million transactions to date, with a 99.93 percent success rate. Blackbaud also has been able to extend the service bus technology to rapidly develop additional product integrations within the last year, providing customers with functionality and value they were not able to realize through other third party tools or custom integrations.
Blackbaud was also a finalist in the Innovative Practices and Customer Service categories. The entire list of winners can be viewed at http://www.austinchamber.com/awards.
About Blackbaud
Serving the nonprofit and education sectors for 30 years, Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB) combines technology and expertise to help organizations achieve their missions. Blackbaud works with more than 28,000 nonprofit customers in over 60 countries that support higher education, healthcare, human services, arts and culture, faith, the environment, independent K-12 education, animal welfare and other charitable causes. The company offers a full spectrum of cloud-based and on-premise software solutions and related services for organizations of all sizes including: fundraising software, online fundraising software, event fundraising software, eMarketing, social media, advocacy, constituent relationship management (CRM), analytics, financial management and vertical-specific solutions for ticketing, school management, and more. For more information, visit http://www.blackbaud.com.
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