Blackbaud enhances data import functions of The Raiser's Edge
Howard Lake | 14 September 2011 | News
Blackbaud Europe Ltd is expanding the data import capabilities of its The Raiser’s Edge® fundraising software through a partnership with Import-O-Matic™. The company’s plug-in helps streamline data processing and the integration of multiple data sources “from nearly any external system”, increases data hygiene efficiency, and reduces the manual steps required for data entry.
It can add or update existing records with on-the-fly duplicate matching, process multiple record types simultaneously, and import directly to a gift
batch. With its advanced pattern matching it will help remove the need manually to massage data in Access or Excel before importing.
Import-O-Matic is now available to Blackbaud’s 13,000 not-for-profit clients around the world.
Mark Grisdale, Blackbaud Europe’s commercial director, explained: “Import-O-Matic enables our customers to eliminate manual input by allowing fast and easy data import from multiple sources, such as campaign data from an outside agency or a prospect list, without having to reformat the data.”
O-matic Software has been developing a range of “O-matic” software plug-ins designed to extend Blackbaud products since 2004. Managing partner Jeffrey Montgomery said: “Import-O-Matic allows organisations to transform their Raiser’s Edge database into the central hub for all of their data.”
www.blackbaud.co.uk/services/import-o-matic/import-o-matic.aspx
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He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.