Credit score: Blackbaud
Blackbaud, a supplier of software program for powering social impression, held its semi-annual Product Replace Briefings digital occasion, rolling out tons of of updates and sharing roadmaps for key merchandise throughout its portfolio. With this know-how innovation, Blackbaud helps organizations energy fundraising, monetary administration, schooling administration and company social accountability, placing AI and information intelligence to make use of for social impression.
In probably the most attended Product Replace Briefings occasion up to now, 1000’s of consumers tuned in, expressing explicit pleasure across the enhancements for Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT, describing the updates as “daring,” “bold,” and “promising” in dwell chat.
“We’re embedding intelligence into our merchandise at an accelerated charge and constructing deeper integrations between our core merchandise to ship linked methods that work seamlessly collectively,” stated Sudip Datta, chief product officer, Blackbaud. “With Blackbaud’s deep experience and industry-leading merchandise, our prospects can work in distinctive methods and uncover efficiencies and insights that no different know-how supplier can provide. We’re excited concerning the bold roadmaps underway for the following 12 months and past and are dedicated to bringing prospects the perfect know-how to energy social impression.”
Blackbaud Q2 2024 Product Replace Briefing highlights included:
Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT. As a part of a main wave of innovation coming to the market’s hottest fundraising software program, Blackbaud introduced {that a} thoughtfully reimagined person expertise with 100% of crucial workflows obtainable in a single, unified view can be obtainable by the top of 2025. Options and updates now obtainable in-product embrace top-performing Optimized Donation Types, generative AI-powered acknowledgment emails, on-line occasion registration, area encryption to reinforce the safety of donor information, and extra. Enhancements to Prospect Insights will increase entry to the info intelligence software inside Raiser’s Edge NXT workflows and allow Prospect Insights to make use of AI to adapt fashions to particular prospects to enhance mannequin accuracy.
Blackbaud Monetary Edge NXT. Blackbaud accelerated innovation for its industry-leading fund accounting answer, enabling clever, data-driven choices for accounts payable that may save organizations money and time. Enhancing its strong end-to-end procure to pay workflow, Blackbaud rolled out options for automated cost processing, bill scanning backed by AI doc intelligence, buy requests embedded in expense administration, and new licensed Microsoft Energy Platform connectors for Question and Accounts Payable. Extra licensed Microsoft Energy Platform connectors for Normal Ledger can be coming quickly, in addition to AI for prescriptive insights into venture and grant information.
Blackbaud CRM. With an all-new person interface coming in 2025, Blackbaud CRM will ship a modernized person expertise that’s mobile-friendly, extra accessible, and safer, counting on Blackbaud’s SKY UX open-source person expertise framework. By leveraging Blackbaud Cloud Operations, prospects have sooner entry to Blackbaud innovation that is enabling improved workflows, processes, and safety, in addition to entry to new machine studying and AI capabilities. The Optimized Donation Types, that are already demonstrating larger than {industry} common conversion charges with Raiser’s Edge NXT, can be launched quickly for Blackbaud CRM.
Okay-12 Training Options. Blackbaud shared updates on the deliberate launch of its widespread data engine later this yr to assist personal Okay-12 colleges extra deeply join their schooling administration portfolio to Raiser’s Edge NXT. With this improved connectivity, fundraisers can simply observe and have interaction college students as alumni as soon as they’ve graduated and enhance fundraising efforts concentrating on newly enrolled households. Academics can even save time with Blackbaud’s new AI-enabled query generator and evaluation query banks for sophistication assignments, quizzes and scholar assessments.
Company Influence Options. EVERFI from Blackbaud has totally up to date its shopper monetary schooling content material for teenagers, now referred to as Obtain Foundations, and rebuilt its Knowledge Safety and Privateness office coaching course with modular content material for the age of AI, with extra course rebuilds coming quickly for monetary literacy and wellness programs. Updates to YourCause from Blackbaud embrace processing enhancements, like a brand new charitable funding dashboard that improves visibility into the standing of company and worker donated funds. Blackbaud can have thrilling updates coming quickly for Influence Edge, its AI-powered reporting and storytelling software, which is at present in an early entry program.
Peer-To-Peer Fundraising. Blackbaud is enabling prospects to drive supporter engagement by Good Transfer, the inclusive fundraising and exercise monitoring cell app in Blackbaud TeamRaiser, with new updates that make occasion creation even simpler and supply dwell occasion reporting capabilities. On its widespread JustGiving platform, Blackbaud continues to reinforce generative AI choices and web page optimization to assist supporters increase extra and has work underway to allow cryptocurrency donations. For Blackbaud Luminate On-line, the corporate continues to strengthen safety and compliance with multi-factor authentication through SMS, superior database stage and area stage encryption applied sciences, and updates to adjust to laws set forth by the State of California as a part of California Meeting Invoice 488. Blackbaud additionally introduced updates coming quickly to Luminate On-line for a modernized checkout expertise that may allow recurring donations through digital wallets.
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