Formed with this vision, Blackboard Inc. has become the leading provider of Internet infrastructure software for e-Education.

Blackboard offers a complete suite of enterprise software products and services that power a total “e-Education Infrastructure” for schools, colleges, universities, and other education providers. Blackboard solutions deliver the promise of the Internet for online teaching and learning, campus communities, auxiliary services, and integration of Web-enabled student services and back office systems.

Key Applications
Blackboard Learning SystemTM
The Blackboard Learning System is a Web-based server software platform that offers industry-leading course management, an open architecture for customization and interoperability, and a scalable design that allows for integration with student information systems and authentication protocols.

Blackboard Community Portal SystemTM
As a logical extension of the teaching and learning environment, the Blackboard Community Portal System features a highly customizable community portal environment that unifies academics, commerce, communities, and administrative services online through one integrated interface. This advanced functionality is backed by a sophisticated product architecture that runs on relational databases and can be scaled to support tens of thousands of users utilizing a multi-server configuration.

Blackboard Transaction System:
Blackboard: Transaction System, including Blackboard Transaction System - UNIX EditionTM and Blackboard Transaction System - Windows EditionTM, supplies Web-enabled operation of student identification, dining services, campus commerce, building access, as well as increases in business with off-campus merchants.

We have designed the Blackboard product suite to keep pace with, and anticipate, your developing technology needs. Blackboard enlists the industry’s most talented technology professionals to provide continuous product support and consultation, affording your complete operational control and flexibility. Providing proven software solutions that aggregate courses, community, and transactons, Blackboard offers the most advanced, comprehensive, and customizable software in today’s e-Education market.

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