1. Paul Gibson, System Architect Next Generation Platform: Infinity January 2007 Paul Gibson, System Architect Monday 8 th October

2. European Conference | Paul Gibson | Page #2 Blackbaud’s Next Generation Application Platform – Codename Infinity Agenda  Describe the Infinity Platform  Demonstrate application features built on Infinity

3. European Conference | Paul Gibson | Page #3 Blackbaud’s Next Generation Application Platform – Codename Infinity What is Infinity?  State of the art technology platform  Designed and built by Blackbaud  Complimentary to current product offerings  The foundation for Blackbaud applications currently in development

4. European Conference | Paul Gibson | Page #4 Blackbaud’s Next Generation Application Platform – Codename Infinity Major Feature Themes  Open Standards, contemporary platform  Scalability and Performance  Security  Web Deployment  Solution Flexibility

5. European Conference | Paul Gibson | Page #5 Blackbaud’s Next Generation Application Platform – Codename Infinity Platform Feature Sub-Plots  Internationalisation –Unicode data –Localisable UI  Good Hosting Citizen –XCopy Deploy server components –Side-by-side versioning –Scriptable maintenance tasks –WebHealth events  Future Proof Architecture –Web 2.0 –RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) –Gadgets –Business Intelligence (BI)

6. European Conference | Paul Gibson | Page #6 Blackbaud’s Next Generation Application Platform – Codename Infinity What is a Platform?  Common Core Architecture –Web Services –Security –Data access –Configuration management (the production factory of PD)  Common Application Services –Ad-hoc Query –Security administration –Batch –Code tables –Data entry forms –User experience (shell) –Etc.

7. European Conference | Paul Gibson | Page #7 Blackbaud’s Next Generation Application Platform – Codename Infinity Windows Server System Infinity Platform Application Blades Constituent Management Volunteer EventsFundraisingProspect ResearchMajor GivingDirect Mail Marketing Product X Bullseye MS SQL Server 2005.Net Framework 2.0 ASP.Net SQL Report Services Windows Workflow Foundation (V. 2) Security Query Code Tables Catalog System Batch Form Services ClickOnce Services Build / Configuration Management Client Shell Database Audit Report Services Business ProcessesWebHealth Monitoring Web Services

8. European Conference | Paul Gibson | Page #8 Blackbaud’s Next Generation Application Platform – Codename Infinity Windows Server System Infinity Platform Application Blades Constituent Management Volunteer EventsFundraisingProspect ResearchMajor Giving Custom Implementation Legacy Integration Case Management Program Management Fulfillment MS SQL Server 2005.Net Framework 2.0 ASP.Net SQL Report Services Windows Workflow Foundation (V. 2) Security Query Code Tables Catalog System Batch Form Services ClickOnce Services Build / Configuration Management Client Shell Database Audit Report Services Business ProcessesWebHealth Monitoring Web Services

9. European Conference | Paul Gibson | Page #9 Blackbaud’s Next Generation Application Platform – Codename Infinity What we are building on  Microsoft SQL Server 2005 –SQL Server Report Services 2005  ASP.Net 2.0 –.Net Framework 2.0 –SOAP Web Services –Visual Studio 2005 –Windows Server 2003 + –ClickOnce SmartClient

10. European Conference | Paul Gibson | Page #10 Blackbaud’s Next Generation Application Platform – Codename Infinity 7x Architecture vs. Infinity 7x ArchitectureInfinity 32 bit64 bit and 32 bit Client/ServerWeb Service Rich ClientSmart Client Client installation footprint100% web deployed VB6 (VB98), COMVB 2005,.Net 2.0 SQL Server 2000 and 2005SQL Server 2005 Single client-side COM APIXml Web-service API, DB API, Shell API, Server API Object Oriented (OO)Service Oriented (SOA) Fixed set of extensibility points (attributes, plugins, VBA) Infinite extensibility!

11. European Conference | Paul Gibson | Page #11 Blackbaud’s Next Generation Application Platform – Codename Infinity In 7.X Architecture we rolled a lot of our own technology SQL Server 2000 Database: Microsoft Proprietary Authentication Blackbaud Proprietary Reports Blackbaud Proprietary Import/Export/Queue Blackbaud Proprietary Misc UI Widgets Blackbaud Domain Features Blackbaud

12. European Conference | Paul Gibson | Page #12 Blackbaud’s Next Generation Application Platform – Codename Infinity For Infinity, we leverage the Microsoft Platform where appropriate SQL Server 2005 Database: Microsoft Windows (Single Sign On) Authentication Report Services Reports Microsoft DTS / SSIS Import/Export/Queue Microsoft Platform/Domain Features Blackbaud 3 rd Party Misc UI Widgets Infragistics

13. European Conference | Paul Gibson | Page #13 Blackbaud’s Next Generation Application Platform – Codename Infinity More Effort on Better Features! Platform/Domain Features Platform Web endpoints (SOAP, RSS) Customisation Security Scalability Usability Application Specific challenges of not-for-profit organisations for each problem domain Details embargoed

14. European Conference | Paul Gibson | Page #14 Blackbaud’s Next Generation Application Platform – Codename Infinity Open Standards  XML –SOAP Web Service API –Extensibility catalogue system –RSS  SQL –Direct read/write database access SSIS/DTS Bulk imports No limits on the full power of TSQL .Net Framework –Call web services from other application –Extend built in services –Implement custom client-side forms/features hosted in our shell

15. European Conference | Paul Gibson | Page #15 Blackbaud’s Next Generation Application Platform – Codename Infinity Scalability and Performance  Designed for Enterprise scale –MS Lab Benchmarks– 1250 users, 10 million gifts –White Paper available  Significant investment in QA automation –2300+ Developer Unit tests –Daily load tests on multi-million record, multi-hundred user simulation  Instrumented for Operations –WMI –WebHealth monitoring

16. European Conference | Paul Gibson | Page #16 Blackbaud’s Next Generation Application Platform – Codename Infinity Security  Principle of Least Privilege  No client installation, supports low-rights users  Integrated Windows Authentication (Single Sign On)  Synchronise to NT / Active Directory/LDAP groups  Audit Trail –Implemented at the DB layer  Rich “Feature Level Security” model

17. European Conference | Paul Gibson | Page #17 Blackbaud’s Next Generation Application Platform – Codename Infinity Flexibility  Role based Security/User experience model  Every page is customisable –“Add a tab to the Constituent record” –Reorganise built-in features around custom workflow –Implement new features and integrate with existing workflows  Every feature is “pluggable” –Substitute custom “Delete record after notifying DBA and checking elaborate business rule” operation for the standard “Delete record”. –Low-code development of custom KPIs, Lists, Forms, Processes

18. European Conference | Paul Gibson | Page #18 Blackbaud’s Next Generation Application Platform – Codename Infinity Demos and Questions?