Microsoft & Blackbaud expand digital partnership to better support non-profits
Melanie May | 23 October 2017 | News
Microsoft and Blackbaud have announced a three-point plan that will extend their existing partnership and help them offer better support to the non-profit sector through cloud computing.
The new development will use the cloud to make it easier for non-profits to access and manage services and solutions across both organisations with Blackbaud to fully power its social good cloud platform Blackbaud SKY with Microsoft’s cloud computing service Azure. Blackbaud will also be a CSP (Cloud Solution Provider) partner for the Microsoft platform.
The two organisations are also committing to working together to find new solutions that bring together both of their offerings to better support non-profits in areas including funding, mission operations, and programme delivery. This will involve exploring how both companies’ respective cloud artificial intelligence and analytics can be leveraged in new ways to support the sector. Microsoft and Blackbaud intend to partner on initiatives to make innovation more accessible for both large and small non-profits, and to explore other ways the companies’ data assets, community outreach and sector leadership can be used to their benefit.
Justin Spelhaug, General Manager of Microsoft Tech for Social Impact, said:
“This newly expanded partnership between Microsoft and Blackbaud will allow both companies to better meet the unique technology challenges non-profits face. By combining Microsoft’s cloud platforms and expertise with Blackbaud’s leading industry solutions, we will create new opportunities for digital transformation to empower non-profits to make an even bigger impact on the world.”
The announcement follows Microsoft’s launch of its new Technology for Social Impact group, which is dedicated to helping non-profits worldwide with technology adoption and digital transformation. Microsoft and Blackbaud will share further details on their partnership plans in due course.
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Melanie May is a journalist and copywriter specialising in writing both for and about the charity and marketing services sectors since 2001. She can be reached via thepurplepim.com.