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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Andar/360

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AAndar/360 is a modular fundraising suite containing components to automate fundraising efforts and analytics, developed by Helix.N/A

    Blackbaud NetCommunity (discontinued)

    Score3.8 out of 10
    N/AThe Blackbaud NetCommunity online alumni management system helped users to gain a deeper understanding of alumni relationships. The product is being phased out, and is no longer offered to new customers.N/A
    Pricing
    Andar/360Blackbaud NetCommunity (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Andar/360Blackbaud NetCommunity (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    Andar/360Blackbaud NetCommunity (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Helix (Andar Software)
    Chose Andar/360
    Andar/360 is very robust, as the United Way is a large and complex organization across the globe. Andar/360 has almost everything that meets the needs of such a complex giving and funding structure.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Best Alternatives
    Andar/360Blackbaud NetCommunity (discontinued)
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    GiveSmart by Momentive
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    Enterprises
    Kindsight iWave
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Kindsight iWave
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    User Ratings
    Andar/360Blackbaud NetCommunity (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    2.0
    (23 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.6
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.9
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Andar/360Blackbaud NetCommunity (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Helix (Andar Software)
    If they are a United Way organization, I would absolutely recommend. If they aren't a United Way but offer employee giving to organizations, or act as flow-through, Andar/360 will also be a great fit. If the charity is a smaller organization, Andar/360 would be too complex and wouldn't be used to its full capacity.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    For those using the events module, NetCommunity is great, though if you do a lot of walk/run type of events where individuals sponsor other individuals, something like TeamRaiser might make more sense. If you don't have the staff resources for web developers dedicated to fundraising tasks, then NetCommunity is a great tool. It's not as customisable as an experienced programmer/developer might want, but it still has a lot of options. It also has a lot of nuance, and if you cannot make an investment of time or money into getting staff trained, it's not going to work out well.
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    Pros
    Helix (Andar Software)
    • Fund distribution
    • Reporting
    • Record keeping of funds and other data points
    • Audit track
    • Data import
    • Queuing tasks
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    • Data integration with The Raiser's Edge - data which is collected in Blackbaud NetCommunity directly integrates with The Raiser's Edge interface and can be seamlessly downloaded into the CRM.
    • Donation/Event/Membership registration - the product comes with out-of-the-box forms that can be used for these basic functions. They are flexible, but structured enough to integrate the data back to the CRM.
    • Email marketing - constituents can be emailed directly from the Blackbaud NetCommunity platform by querying the data available in the CRM. Targeted email communications can be setup as well as ongoing subscriptions/newsetters.
    • Content management - general tools to manage content are available. Business users can add/modify/delete this content without tremendous technical expertise. The content can also be shared across multiple websites - or A/B split tested to determine preference.
    • Friendly URLs - the product allows for friendly URLs that are also more searchable on the major search engines (i.e. Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.).
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    Cons
    Helix (Andar Software)
    • Data export
    • Navigation between records
    • User interface
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    Discontinued Products
    • When we have carding attacks on our payment gateway it is always a struggle to get all the players to work together and determine how to get us back up and running. ReCAPTCHA at the highest level is not supported, for example.
    • From experience, the product has not been stable in the last couple years and all signs have been pointing towards a sunsetting of this product for years.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Helix (Andar Software)
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    Discontinued Products
    The only reason for this is due to the fact that we are only using the product for a specific purpose that is not directly tied to the newsletters. There are better products out there for what we are doing with grant processing. We will most likely move to a new software instead of renewing for our purposes
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    Usability
    Helix (Andar Software)
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    The interface with Raiser's Edge and the many different ways our users can interact with the website are a big plus for us. Event registrations are our most popular transaction type and having this on line makes our lives much easier.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Helix (Andar Software)
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    Product is stable is up 99.99% of the time. As a hosted customer, we do experience some minor downtime when routers or switches malfunction. We feel the downtime has been minimal and the communications around these outages has been good.
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    Performance
    Helix (Andar Software)
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    Discontinued Products
    Blackbaud NetCommunity uses .NET technology. It can be sluggish at times if not optimized, but overall we have been pleased with the performance when handling large volumes of traffic.
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    Support Rating
    Helix (Andar Software)
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    Discontinued Products
    Blackbaud NetCommunity and all of the Blackbaud products have a great support system. Blackbaud NetCommunity offers support through phone calls, chats, online, and email. Their response time is very quick and the support analysts work with you to resolve issues in a very timely matter. If they do not personally know the answer they will direct you to another support analyst that will be able to assist in a resolution.
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    In-Person Training
    Helix (Andar Software)
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    As expected. Courseware was a nice reference guide.
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    Implementation Rating
    Helix (Andar Software)
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    I truly wish that "0" was an option. I never really pin-pointed whether the implementation issues that we had were caused by Blackbaud, or if it was part of a larger issue that began in-house.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Helix (Andar Software)
    Andar/360 is very robust, as the United Way is a large and complex organization across the globe. Andar/360 has almost everything that meets the needs of such a complex giving and funding structure.
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    We tried to use this for a while and actually had different groups set up to begin implementing the interface into our computer but for some reason, we could not get a handle on it. iMIS ended up winning out in the long run because it was easier for people of all generations to use and understand. People just preferred the layout and the usability so ultimately it was kept as our main system.
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    Return on Investment
    Helix (Andar Software)
    • Distribution of funds gets recalculated with employee giving; it has a very complex backend structure and sometimes it's out of your control
    • Amazing import capability to bring in data from other tools via integration
    • job queuing to save time and bandwidth
    • Export and querying needs much improvement, the logic build is not intuitive, and the interface is outdated
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    • We were able to purchase a package integrating all types of Blackbaud products which integrate.
    • We are able to update our desktop, mobile donation pages which allow us to take donations while having great support available at all times.
    • The donation forms and email tools are not very visually appealing and user-friendly so this makes it difficult to implement and in return donors don't have a user-friendly experience.
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