Blackbaud Acknowledged as a Key HR Software Provider by APPS RUN THE WORLD in the HCM Top 500 Market Report

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Blackbaud Strengths, Domain Expertise, and Key Differentiators

Blackbaud is a 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.

Blackbaud Recent Developments

Blackbaud has introduced Impact Edgeâ„¢ in October 2023. This AI-powered solution redefines CSR reporting and storytelling, catering to teams of all sizes. Utilizing responsible generative AI, Impact Edge allows corporate impact professionals to effortlessly craft a compelling narrative of their organization's social impact. The solution securely captures data from employee engagement programs, philanthropic initiatives, educational projects, and other trusted external sources.

In November 2021, Blackbaud teamed up with marketing technology company Campaign Monitor to integrate its email marketing solution with Blackbaud’s fundraising and donor management software solution, Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT. This integration creates an automated email marketing solution designed for the needs and goals of nonprofits and social good organizations.

In February 2020, Blackbaud introduced its integrated payment solution Blackbaud Merchant Services to the Asia Pacific. Blackbaud Merchant Services is an end-to-end payment processing solution that has already helped social good organisations around the world raise billions of dollars. This launch follows the successful rollout of Blackbaud's fully integrated payment solution as part of its global cloud strategy in both North America and Europe.

Blackbaud Merchant Services offers one transaction rate for American Express, Mastercard and Visa cards issued in Asia Pacific and internationally. The new solution also provides customers in Australia and New Zealand with a streamlined and simplified payment solutions platform, which fully integrates into its leading cloud CRM solutions, including Blackbaud CRM, Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT and Blackbaud eTapestry; Blackbaud Checkout, which drives greater digital conversion rates; industry-specific APIs; and integration with leading partner applications including Evergiving. Additionally, the payment functionality includes digital wallets, giving supporters a choice of payment options and making online giving even easier.

Blackbaud Merchant Services supports disbursements in multiple currencies, including Australian, U.S. and Canadian dollars, British pounds sterling and euros. New Zealand dollars will be added in the near future.

Blackbaud Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) Activities

In January 2022, Blackbaud, a cloud software company powering social good, has acquired global social impact technology company EVERFI. This strategic collaboration enhances the technology and data-driven impact sector, providing significant advantages to companies dedicated to social impact. The synergistic efforts of Blackbaud and EVERFI aim to catalyze meaningful outcomes, contributing to the creation of a better world through socially responsible initiatives.

In January 2019, Blackbaud acquired YourCause, a corporate social responsibility and employee engagement software. YourCause stands out as an innovative, flexible and scalable software provider with a diverse customer portfolio, including Fortune 500 companies and small businesses alike. Eight million people can currently engage with YourCause's solution, which processes more than $245,000 in donations every business hour and has coordinated, tracked and rewarded more than 30 million volunteer hours for its customers.

In May 2018, Blackbaud, acquired Reeher, the industry leader in fundraising performance management for higher education. Reeher drives fundraising effectiveness and increased impact by equipping individual fundraisers and their teams with the tools and insight they need to assess their performance, as well as benchmark it within their own institution and more broadly. Reeher's customized predictive models also help institutions analyze and score the giving behaviors and characteristics of their constituents to identify and target the highest-potential prospects.

Blackbaud Customers in ARTW Customer Database

Leveraging a rigorous data-centric research methodology, APPS RUN THE WORLD asks the simple question: Who’s buying Blackbaud applications and why? And we provide the answers – supported by decades of research – to our clients around the world. Our Customer database has over 100 data fields that detail company usage of Blackbaud and other enterprise apps by function, customer size, industry, location, implementation status, partner involvement, Line of Business Key Stakeholders and IT decision makers contact details. List of Verified Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT, customers.

Blackbaud Key Cloud and HCM Applications

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Blackbaud Customers - Breakdown by Geo, Size, Vertical and Product

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Blackbaud has over 40,000 global customers including nonprofits, foundations, companies, education institutions, healthcare organizations and other social good entities. There are millions of users of Blackbaud's solutions in more than 100 countries.

Among Blackbaud customers are: The University of Warwick, National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, YIVO, Active Minds, Energy Outreach Colorado, Life Rolls On, Prostate Cancer Foundation, AID Atlanta, Plan Canada, YWCA of Calgary, Boy Scouts of America, The Newseum, Spectrum Health, Dragonfly Forest, Inc., and many others.

Blackbaud Market Opportunities, M&A and Geo Expansions

Blackbaud, a CSR tech leader, marked a successful year since acquiring YourCause in January 2019. Now serving one-third of Fortune 500 companies, Blackbaud processed $1 billion in donations in 2019, benefiting 170,000 organizations. Post-integration, the CSR segment is thriving, with a TAM exceeding $10 billion. Blackbaud continues to explore acquisitions and internal developments to expand its market influence.

Blackbaud Risks and Challenges

Despite its outsized presence in the nonprofit vertical, Blackbaud estimates that it has barely scratched the surface. The vertical is made up of millions of nonprofit organizations around the world with as much as $1 trillion of fees that they generate for services they provide. With the acquisition of MyCharity in Ireland, Blackbaud expects considerable growth in the EMEA region.

Blackbaud Ecosystem, Partners, Resellers and SI

Blackbaud updated its Blackbaud Marketplace platform. The Blackbaud Marketplace offers a curated selection of applications that are purpose-built to extend and enhance the impact of Blackbaud solutions. The Blackbaud Marketplace allows partner organizations and a rapidly growing ecosystem of external developers to create new, unique solutions that integrate with existing Blackbaud products. The number of apps listed in the Blackbaud Marketplace has nearly doubled in 2020.

Among its partners are ACME Technologies, ACS Technologies, ActionSprout, ADP, ADVIZOR Solutions, Almabase, Aluminati, Amazon Web Services, AppZocial, Apsona, AvidExchange, bfRed, and many others.

Blackbaud Cloud Platform (PaaS) and Infrastructure (IaaS) Details

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