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    Blackbaud Luminate Online

    Score6.8 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Luminate Online aims to help non-profits engage more effectively with supporters and raise more money by enabling integrated campaigns for digital, social and mobile channels. According to the vendor, Luminate Online helps non-profits: Better understand online supporters Make the right ask at the right time Launch creative fundraising campaigns Automated campaigns stimulate engagement and action through targeted welcome messages with personalized…N/A

    Pega Platform

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/APega Platform is a combined business process management and robotic process automation (RPA) platform with advanced workforce analytics from Pegasystems.

    $0.45

    one-time fee per case**

    Pricing
    Blackbaud Luminate OnlinePega Platform
    Editions & Modules
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    Low-code Factory Edition
    $0.45
    one-time fee per case**
    Standard Edition
    $0.80
    one-time fee per case**
    Enterprise Edition
    Custom Quote
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Blackbaud Luminate OnlinePega Platform
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsLuminate Online is priced based on the number of email addresses on file, modules used and service plan. Our peer to peer offering, TeamRaiser, has a transactional, shared success pricing model.**350,000 cases / year minimum. Additional cases available in blocks of 150,000.
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    Blackbaud Luminate OnlinePega Platform
    Considered Both Products
    Blackbaud
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    Pegasystems
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    57%
    Would buy again
    4 Answers
    90%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    50%
    Delivers good value for the price
    3 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    71%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    78%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    Features
    Blackbaud Luminate OnlinePega Platform
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Blackbaud Luminate Online and Pega Platform
    Feature
    Blackbaud Luminate Online
    -
    Ratings
    Pega Platform
    5.3
    63 Ratings
    37% below category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings4.062 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings6.062 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings6.061 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of Blackbaud Luminate Online and Pega Platform
    Feature
    Blackbaud Luminate Online
    -
    Ratings
    Pega Platform
    8.0
    66 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Process designer00 Ratings9.065 Ratings
    Process simulation00 Ratings7.957 Ratings
    Business rules engine00 Ratings10.065 Ratings
    SOA support00 Ratings7.151 Ratings
    Process player00 Ratings7.048 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages00 Ratings5.46 Ratings
    Form builder00 Ratings9.059 Ratings
    Model execution00 Ratings8.956 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of Blackbaud Luminate Online and Pega Platform
    Feature
    Blackbaud Luminate Online
    -
    Ratings
    Pega Platform
    9.0
    50 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Social collaboration tools00 Ratings9.050 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Blackbaud Luminate Online and Pega Platform
    Feature
    Blackbaud Luminate Online
    -
    Ratings
    Pega Platform
    4.4
    9 Ratings
    59% below category average
    Content management00 Ratings4.49 Ratings
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    Score7.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Blackbaud Luminate OnlinePega Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    3.7
    (87 ratings)
    7.9
    (74 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (21 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    2.1
    (28 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.2
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.0
    (32 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.3
    (14 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    3.0
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.6
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.8
    (11 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Blackbaud Luminate OnlinePega Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Blackbaud
    Blackbaud Luminate Online is an excellent solution for online giving, providing a wealth of tools for producing donation forms. It also is outstanding for peer-to-peer fundraising, such as event-based efforts like walks, cycling tours, and so forth. The Email module is outstanding if you need an internal solution for communicating with your donors and supporters. It provides a wealth of tools for crafting emails, and for reporting on the results.
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    Pegasystems
    Pega Platform has introduced the low code feature, using app studio seasonal and professional developer can develop application easily and quickly. The initial application can be build by Business analyst and product owner who has less knowledge of Pega Platform, further application can be enhanced/extended by professional developer. We can develop end to end application and promote to higher environment. Easily we can perform parallel development using branch.
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    Pros
    Blackbaud
    • House Donor Information. Easy report pulling. Queries and lists.
    • I like how everything is housed on one platform. Webpages, emails and donor profiles. User friendly.
    • It works nicely with other blackbaud products such as Raiser's Edge. Easy importing and exporting options.
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    Pegasystems
    • Quick development time. Much of the Pega "rules" are easy to configure and implement.
    • Visually friendly and modern. Much of the UI/UX elements in the system are continuously supported and updated, giving a nice feel to the apps.
    • Many of the configurations and rules Pega gives to the developers can also be delegated to business users. The organization and structure of the client's business can easily be adapted in the Pega platform.
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    Cons
    Blackbaud
    • Reporting needs some work, this is being worked on in their new BETA program.
    • The eCommerce module needs some work. It would be great to have more ability to customize parts of it without having to rewrite the code.
    • The Events module could use some improvements as well.
    • The Personal Fundraising module needs a lot of work. It really cannot work as needed right now. We started using TeamRaiser to handle this, but it could be great.
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    Pegasystems
    • Need more learning materials. For Beginners who have previous programming experience with another language takes more time to learn.
    • If the developer is met with an issue in pega platform , they have to rely on Pega supporting team to fix it.
    • Customization is available but is not encouraged. Pega does not support faults that occur in customized solutions.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Blackbaud
    We’ve decided to leave Luminate and are moving to a system that better caters to our and our users needs. Luminate has proven difficult to use and has limited abilities when it comes to data management, events, and peer-to-peer functionality. Reporting is also very complicated and requires a great deal of time to utilize properly.
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    Pegasystems
    Pegasystems has continued to demonstrate a strong partnership with our organization and investment in their product that aligns with our overall vision and need. Pegasystems has engaged us at every level, with the assistance of minor defects to the overall roadmap planning and alignment of our goals
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    Usability
    Blackbaud
    You have to be very tech savvy to use Luminate to its fullest potential. You can get buy with the training, but there is a steep learning curve and you almost need 6 months to 1 year of in-person training to really be able to anything substantial. The online training lessons are not going to cut it while learning this program.
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    Pegasystems
    Pega Platform is enhancing its product and launching new features day by day which help to achieve customers needs. If I talk about the earlier version of Pega Platform (i.e. pega v5 and 6.3) there were many numbers of limitations in Pega Platform and if we need to do some customization then needed to write custom java and jave scripts to achieve the functionally. Now I can say Pega Platform is running with market trends and demand. Pega Platform is giving all the options which support the current technologies like decisioning capabilities, real time processing, mashup, process fabrics etc..
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    Reliability and Availability
    Blackbaud
    It's a very rare occurrence if the system isn't available when I want it. I can easily log in from home after hours if need be, and the security is enforced, but simple when you're legit! They are very good about sending email reminders and updates when system maintenance will be performed, and it's always during middle of the night hours when you likely wouldn't be using it anyways
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    Pegasystems
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Blackbaud
    Pages load fast and 98% of the reports do run in a matter of secons/minutes. There is this one report I have that can take hours to run, but this is due to the amount of transactions being requested for one of our biggest online fundraising events (Transaction report)
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    Pegasystems
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Blackbaud
    Support staff are usually incredibly helpful and responsive. There are several ways to contact them (chat, logging a ticket, phone) which makes it easy to get help when you need it. Once in a while I get a support staff member who isn't quite as helpful, which is why I gave it a 9 instead of a 10, but that is rare and if I follow up with someone else, I get what I need.
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    Pegasystems
    It’s very slow sometimes, but that may be our servers. Also the Knowledge Library needs some work - again, not sure if it’s our setup or what- but I’m unable to search the body of an article for content, so I have to be very intentional with tagging, but it’s not ideal.
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    In-Person Training
    Blackbaud
    Initial training was great and the instructor was very patient and helpful during the set up process. Blackbaud has a variety on online self-paced classes that supplement the training you receive. The only downfall is after training is complete. I've found the support for Luminate to be a tad lackluster. We often encounter issues that aren't on Luminate's development road map and have had a series of cases be opened.
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    Pegasystems
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Blackbaud
    When I used the training, I had actually been using Luminate Online but figured it might help me learn to use the tools more effectively. And it did. The sessions were helpful and even as a current user I felt like I learned how to use the tools more effectively.
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    Pegasystems
    The online training is an excellent one, but still it is missing hands on development.
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    Implementation Rating
    Blackbaud
    Implementation of Luminate itself was rather smooth, but the process involved for TeamRaiser was very difficult. Even after implementation we relied on support to help with various aspects of TeamRaiser from page design to reporting and front end user issues. The support offered for issues with Luminate was very good, but again TeamRaiser support was lacking.
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    Pegasystems
    Implementation is totally depend up on the requirement
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    Alternatives Considered
    Blackbaud
    The only other product I have used for this type of fundraising work is NetCommunity and it hasn't been as scalable or versatile. It doesn't really offer the peer to peer fundraising of Luminate or the constituent management, web page development and considered donation forms. NetCommunity didn't even come close which is why we replaced it with Luminate.
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    Pegasystems
    We did evaluate multiple products offerings with Pega Platform capabilities and observed that Pega PRPC rules engine and case management capabilities are better over so many BPM Tools. We also conducted a detailed study with developers to identify the best products out of Suite of BPM products. It's observed that Rules engines integration is very streamlined with forms in Pega whereas other tools multiple have powerful data model capabilities but lacks the ease of creating business rules.
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    Scalability
    Blackbaud
    Luminate Online is a great scalable product as it provides various price points dependent on your quantity of email addresses. This allows both small and large organizations to utilize the product, which has strong email capabilities. It also means smaller organizations aren't forced to pay astronomical fees in order to have access to a quality product.
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    Pegasystems
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Blackbaud
    • We've increased our online giving +200% although this is due in part to our focus on the channel and not entirely on the product.
    • We've been able to increase employee efficiency by selecting email lists per message within Luminate Online. With our prior solution we needed to request data be pulled from our database for event email.
    • We've really done a great job of growing our online tribute and memorial giving through the use of custom links and the pre-populated information has really helped with the back end processing.
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    Pegasystems
    • For one of the applications we worked on, we were able to reduce the processing time on a case from 2 days to 20 minutes by utilizing Pega
    • We were able to resolve the issue of the routing of cases to users based on a specific algorithm by use of Pega
    • Pega case management feature was extensively used in one of the application to establish a parent-child relationship which was very helpful for all the business users
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    ScreenShots

    Blackbaud Luminate Online Screenshots

    Screenshot of Email Overview DashboardScreenshot of Luminate allows you to enable multiple types of giving - from recurring to matching and everything between.Screenshot of Luminate enables you to reach out to supporters in multiple waysScreenshot of Luminate Peer to Peer fundraising with DIY events, also enables your supporters to fundraising on their behalf.