School Administrators' Solutions > Academy™
Academy™: Software for School Administrators
With Academy, you can keep biographical and address information for students, parents, and constituents consistent in all products. When you enter students, add parent/guardians and update information in one Academy component, the information can be automatically added or updated in other components. With an integrated system, you reduce data-entry time and ensure that information is always up-to-date throughout your school.
Academy consists of mature, robust products that have made Blackbaud the world's leading provider of software to independent schools.
The Benefits of Academy
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Share information among the products, eliminating redundant data entry.
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Work with one vendor, simplifying administrative procedures.
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Reduce users' learning time because each product has a similar Windows® interface.
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Use only one database brand -- the low-maintenance Sybase SQL Anywhere client/server database.
Academy Manager
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Academy Manager is the key to integrating Blackbaud's products. It's a software program that synchronizes information that is shared among different school offices.
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This "switchboard" product resides between all components and handles updating and adding new records automatically.
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At user-defined intervals, Academy Manager checks each component for information that has been added or changed and then updates the other components.
Separate but Synchronized Databases
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Benefit by controlling the level of integration among Academy components.
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Indicate which systems should be updated, and optionally remove any component from the synchronization process.
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Choose which fields should be kept synchronized.
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Decide how often databases are checked for changes and when (and if) those changes are made to the other systems.
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Optionally review changes before making updates to the other programs.
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Separate components can reside in different buildings or on different local area networks, allowing greater flexibility in network design.
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