Blackbaud Education Management Solutions vs Veracross

• Incredibly easy to use interface for the User (parents, applicants, etc.).
• Ease of gathering data - Helpful lists, formulas, and reports.
• Time saver - Especially in the Admission office. Since everything is done digitally from the user through the employee, there is no need to hand-enter data; you just click the button, and everything imports or exports as needed!

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• Student records.
• Donor records.

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• It takes a long time to learn to navigate the interface. It's not always very intuitive
• While the knowledgebase and support are generally helpful, when you are looking for a quick answer to something it's not always easy to access quickly. Knowledgebase takes a lot of time to navigate to find just what you want.
• Report building is a skill that takes time to learn and there aren't a lot of training options to learn it. I've had to learn by trial and error.

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• Homework assignments-I wish that you could duplicate assignments for different sections of a class. As it is now, you have to enter it separately.
• The library feature is difficult for some teachers to manage.
• The class website isn't as easy to use as some other programs.

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• Connect RE is awesome and saves so much time versus manually updating information in both the Core and Raiser's Edge systems.
• We are about to upgrade to Tuition Management which will pull data from Core and save so much time on manual entry! Plus, it will be so much easier for parents to pay on time through a credit card versus a check, therefore, improves our ROI drastically.
• Ideally, Raiser's Edge NXT web view would have all of the capabilities as a database view, but I know it will take some time to get there. The Database view is just extremely outdated looking and not in the Cloud, so I can't log in to it from just any computer without downloading Citrix. Can be frustrating sometimes with how slow it is.

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• Easily take attendance assuming all students are present
• Loss of ability to see past report cards
• Easily see a list of student birthdays

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