Blackbaud Strengthens Impact Edge AI and Reporting Capabilities through Integrations with Microsoft Azure AI Service and Microsoft Power BI
New Enhancements Further Strengthen Performance, Scalability, Stability, and
Blackbaud Impact Edge enables corporate impact professionals to easily monitor, report on, and articulate the various aspects of their organization's social impact initiatives. The software brings together an organization's impact data spanning employee engagement programs, philanthropic programs, and educational initiatives—incorporating rich data from both YourCause® from Blackbaud® CSR solutions and EVERFI® from Blackbaud® community education initiatives—along with other trusted external data sources. Whether an organization needs to produce a global, unified view of their impact or dive into a granular local community initiative, Impact Edge instantly delivers data, insights, and AI-powered narratives, with best-practice security principles built in.
In collaboration with Microsoft, Blackbaud has integrated new features and solutions into Impact Edge that align with security best practices and expand the robust artificial intelligence capabilities and reporting dashboard.
The integration of Microsoft's Power BI Embedded platform will enable better data visualization and put key outputs at the user's fingertips. This integration will also allow Blackbaud to design a more stable and scalable reporting experience within the dashboard while increasing overall performance.
In addition to updates to Impact Edge's dashboard, Microsoft engineers are supporting the development of key elements of Blackbaud Copilot that is being built into Impact Edge. The features being developed for this version of Blackbaud Copilot will allow Impact Edge to answer questions and generate content based on trusted sources of information, such as the company's brand voice, information on their website, or other public-facing web domains. With future, more advanced Copilot features, Impact Edge will provide stronger data visualizations, the ability to ingest different formats of data, and improved access to structured data.
"The architecture we are building with Microsoft will help increase overall performance, stability, and scalability for our customers while helping keep their information secure," said
"Blackbaud has been using Microsoft services in an innovative, intelligent way," said
Blackbaud is preparing for the next phase in the roll out of Blackbaud Impact Edge for Corporate Impact customers following a successful early adopter program. Limited availability of Blackbaud Impact Edge has begun with select customers. All features will continue to be enhanced and improved throughout limited availability, plus new features will be added, like data alignment to industry standards such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the Community Reinvestment Act, and other globally relevant standards, as well as the ability to input and manage toward program goals. Blackbaud Impact Edge general availability is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2024.
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Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB) is the leading software provider exclusively dedicated to powering social impact. Serving the nonprofit and education sectors, companies committed to social responsibility and individual change makers, Blackbaud's essential software is built to accelerate impact in fundraising, nonprofit financial management, digital giving, grantmaking, corporate social responsibility and education management. With millions of users and over
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