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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Webex Webinars

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AWebex Webinars is a scalable webinar platform that helps users to create engaging and impactful experiences for everyone, from small sessions to massive global audiences.N/A
    Pricing
    Blackbaud Luminate OnlineWebex Webinars
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Webex Events
    Contact Sales
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Blackbaud Luminate OnlineWebex Webinars
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    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.—
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    Blackbaud Luminate OnlineWebex Webinars
    Considered Both Products
    Blackbaud
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    Cisco
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    57%
    Would buy again
    4 Answers
    98%
    Would buy again
    58 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    50%
    Delivers good value for the price
    3 Answers
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    52 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    71%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    58 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    40 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    41 Answers
    Features
    Blackbaud Luminate OnlineWebex Webinars
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Blackbaud Luminate Online and Webex Webinars
    Feature
    Blackbaud Luminate Online
    -
    Ratings
    Webex Webinars
    8.9
    61 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings8.857 Ratings
    Data exportability00 Ratings8.957 Ratings
    Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
    Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of Blackbaud Luminate Online and Webex Webinars
    Feature
    Blackbaud Luminate Online
    -
    Ratings
    Webex Webinars
    8.9
    67 Ratings
    9% above category average
    High quality audio00 Ratings9.367 Ratings
    Mobile support00 Ratings8.562 Ratings
    Online Meetings / Events
    Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Blackbaud Luminate Online and Webex Webinars
    Feature
    Blackbaud Luminate Online
    -
    Ratings
    Webex Webinars
    9.0
    66 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Calendar integration00 Ratings9.059 Ratings
    Record meetings / events00 Ratings8.965 Ratings
    Slideshows00 Ratings9.362 Ratings
    Event registration00 Ratings8.862 Ratings
    Online Events Collaboration
    Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Blackbaud Luminate Online and Webex Webinars
    Feature
    Blackbaud Luminate Online
    -
    Ratings
    Webex Webinars
    8.9
    65 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Audience polling00 Ratings9.064 Ratings
    Q&A00 Ratings8.862 Ratings
    Online Events Security
    Comparison of Online Events Security features of Blackbaud Luminate Online and Webex Webinars
    Feature
    Blackbaud Luminate Online
    -
    Ratings
    Webex Webinars
    8.9
    63 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Participant roles & permissions00 Ratings9.263 Ratings
    Confidential attendee list00 Ratings8.757 Ratings
    Online Events Marketing
    Comparison of Online Events Marketing features of Blackbaud Luminate Online and Webex Webinars
    Feature
    Blackbaud Luminate Online
    -
    Ratings
    Webex Webinars
    8.9
    53 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Branding options00 Ratings8.951 Ratings
    Integration to Marketing Automation00 Ratings8.847 Ratings
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    Score9.3 out of 10
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    Score8.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    GiveSmart by Momentive
    Score7.5 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    Kindsight iWave
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    Score2.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Blackbaud Luminate OnlineWebex Webinars
    Likelihood to Recommend
    3.7
    (87 ratings)
    8.7
    (69 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (21 ratings)
    9.8
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    2.1
    (28 ratings)
    9.0
    (26 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    9.2
    (9 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.0
    (32 ratings)
    5.9
    (26 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.3
    (14 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    3.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.6
    (9 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.8
    (11 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Blackbaud Luminate OnlineWebex Webinars
    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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    Cisco
    I'd say mainly well suited for larger audiences. I think there's probably some products that are a little more economical for smaller audiences, but if you need a solid, reliable platform for larger audiences, say more than a hundred people. So this is the best product for that or at least top two.
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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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    Cisco
    • Cisco Webex Events is very straightforward and easy to use. Setting up an event within the platform is quite simple - anyone can do it.
    • Webex Events is a great add-on feature to the Webex conferencing platform to allow a one-way broadcast of information, rather than worrying about attendees being able to interrupt the presentation.
    • Recording a session is fairly simple and accessing the recordings post-event is quite reliable. I believe you can also upload .mp4 files into the Webex Events platform to serve as a host.
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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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    Cisco
    • There always seems to be room for video quality improvement (not a necessity, but would be nice)
    • Mobile screensharing from iOS/Android (and other mobile) devices would be a great feature
    • The mobile app should be able to track meetings a user has been invited to, but does not do so (yet)
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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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    Cisco
    Webex Webinars continues to provide exceptional value as a community engagement and professional education platform. As long as there are a multitude of event offerings and the product continues to be supported with periodic software and security updates, I can anticipate using Webex Webinars for the foreseeable future. Overall a great product!
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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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    Cisco
    My experience with this software is fantastic; it's so satisfying that it only took me a week to go through an internal training program to use this software, actually, I don't think this training program was necessary. Usability is one of the most fantastic features to guarantee the increase of members in remote events.
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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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    Cisco
    Webex Webinars are available 24/7 and is based on your license purchase and usage. Webex Webinars needs maximum bandwidth consumption for sending and receiving videos and listed below are some examples. High-Definition Video: 2.5 Mbps (Receive) and 3.0 Mbps (Send)· High Quality Video: 1.0 Mbps (Receive) and 1.5 Mbps (Send)· Standard Quality Video: 0.5 Mbps (Receive) and 0.5 Mbps (Send) Webex Webinars makes it easy to analyze attendance statistics, send participants to a post-webinar landing page, and integrate data into CRMs and marketing automation.
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    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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    Cisco
    You can turn around WebEx Attendance reports within 24 hours. Sign in to Webex Site Administration and go to Reports - Access Anywhere. Select the beginning and ending dates for the report. Report data is available only for sessions conducted up to three months before the current date depending on your administration set-up. From the Sort results by drop-down list, select the sort order criteria for the report. After hosting a WebEx Webinar, you have the ability to create a report of all of the participants and the times that they entered and left the meeting. Reports cannot track emoji's or reactions. Best practice for Q&A and tracking you can integrate SLIDO. You cannot save individual polling results. Also the polling report does not include who asked and answered the questions. This limitation does not apply to SLIDO. Closed captions and transcriptions are only saved if the Webinar is recorded. If you face problems during a webinar, you can hit then button which creates and send a report to Cisco who will then look into the problems to avoid future occurrences
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    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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    Cisco
    I love the control that this product gives to those running the meetings. It allows you to assign presenter roles to people and everyone else that is an attendee can be totally controlled, like whether they can unmute, use video or just sit there and watch. It really gives control of the meeting to those who are running it. And we love that ability for those meetings that we are trying to make sure people are listening in on instead of trying to participate.
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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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    Cisco
    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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    Cisco
    It was a good training to understand not only webinars but the entire platform.
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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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    Cisco
    The implementation process was fairly simple and straightforward
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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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    Cisco
    ON24 has a lot more bells and whistles, which is great when you need them but when you're looking for a straight up platform to host a stand alone webinar, Webex Webinars is a good alternative. We've selected Webex Webinars when we don't need such a customized webinar console.
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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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    Cisco
    Webex Webinars is a scalable platform designed for interactive experiences. It can accommodate attendees from 100 up to 100,000 attendees depending on the purchase of your license. The scalability is based on each company's requirements and usage. Webex Webinars can offer key features like real-time translations, moderated Q&A, live polling, and chat, making it suitable for both small and large audiences and can be deployed across multiple departments and sites as needed.
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    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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    Cisco
    • Allowed us to keep our product development moving forward during the pandemic.
    • Reduced our travel costs by hosting virtual events.
    • Allows us to host more events because of reduced cost over in-person events.
    • Helps us with faster time to market on features as we can quickly set up and host a focus group.
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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.