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Blackbaud Releases SKY APIs® for Blackbaud CRM™ and Blackbaud Altru®
Industry-Standard REST APIs Will Enable Customers and Partners to Rapidly Develop Robust, Reliable Applications and Extensions, Amplifying the Power of
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[{"type":"text","content":"Industry-Standard REST APIs Will Enable Customers and Partners to Rapidly Develop Robust, Reliable Applications and Extensions, Amplifying the Power of Blackbaud Solutions\nCHARLESTON, S.C., March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB), the world's leading cloud software company powering social good, has announced the general availability of SKY API® endpoints for Blackbaud CRM™ and Blackbaud Altru® that will make it easier for customers to further expand and extend the capabilities of these solutions to meet their fundraising and constituent engagement goals—and to ultimately drive better outcomes and achieve their missions.\n\"The inclusion of SKY APIs empowers our partners to rapidly create new integrations, benefit from a standard deployment model, and offers customers new alternatives to address their unique needs and transform business processes,\" said David Marcucci, director, product management, Blackbaud. \"One of our goals has been to bring Blackbaud CRM and Blackbaud Altru more closely into the SKY ecosystem to enable customers to more fully leverage the core platform benefits of SKY, and this launch is our first step.\"\nAccelerating Growth of the Blackbaud MarketplaceBlackbaud's growing network of third-party development partners use SKY APIs to quickly build and connect applications for the Blackbaud Marketplace. In turn, Blackbaud CRM and Blackbaud Altru customers will be able to leverage applications in the Marketplace to seamlessly integrate with complementary point solutions that meet their specific use cases and needs. \nAs part of the rollout, Blackbaud worked closely with partners in a client technical preview to test and optimize endpoints. \"The Blackbaud CRM SKY API release has been seamless, and our development team was able to quickly adopt this new framework to drive matching gift software innovation,\" said Adam Weinger, president of Double the Donation, a Blackbaud Partner. \"This integration enhancement will enable our clients to easily activate our solution and begin driving matching gift funding automation from donors without extra operational lift.\" \nEnabling Customers to Take Full Advantage of the Microsoft Power PlatformBlackbaud CRM and Blackbaud Altru customers can use SKY API templates and connectors to harness the low-code automation and application development capabilities of ...