Blackbaud Releases SKY APIs for Blackbaud CRM and Blackbaud Altru
Blackbaud announced the general availability of SKY API endpoints for Blackbaud CRM and Blackbaud Altru that will make it easier for customers to expand further and extend the capabilities of these solutions to meet their fundraising and constituent engagement goals—and to drive better outcomes and achieve their missions ultimately.
“The inclusion of SKY APIs empowers our partners to create new integrations rapidly, benefit from a standard deployment model, and offers customers new alternatives to address their unique needs and transform business processes,” said David Marcucci, director of product management at Blackbaud. “One of our goals has been to bring Blackbaud CRM and Blackbaud Altru more closely into the SKY ecosystem to enable customers to leverage the core platform benefits of SKY more fully, and this launch is our first step.”
Accelerating Growth of the Blackbaud Marketplace
Blackbaud’s growing network of third-party development partners use SKY APIs to build and connect applications for the Blackbaud Marketplace quickly. 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.
As 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."
Enabling 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 Microsoft Power Automate and Microsoft Power Apps.
Leveraging the Power of the Blackbaud SKY Developer Community
Customers and partners can speed development by deploying updates and enhancements that come with the SKY Developer Portal, accessing a dedicated SKY API support team, and utilizing the help, stories and learning opportunities that come from being part of an 8,000-member-strong SKY API developer community.
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