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Technology Sessions 
| Emerging Technology: What’s on the Horizon for Blackbaud |
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Shaun Sullivan, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Blackbaud, Inc.
Blackbaud VP and CTO Shaun Sullivan will lead a discussion on the future of Blackbaud’s technologies. Topics covered will include platform architecture, extensibility and customization model, business intelligence, web services, and Internet integration. You'll also get a peek at what's on the technology horizon and learn more about how technologies from Blackbaud's recent acquisition, Kintera, are playing in Blackbaud’s strategy. This is a highly interactive session, so be sure to come prepared with your technology questions! |
| Cool Things You Can Do with the Blackbaud NetCommunity OpenPlatform |
Michael Andrews, Vice President, Distinguished Engineer, Blackbaud, Inc.
Michael Andrews will show how the Blackbaud Labs website was built using Blackbaud NetCommunity 5.5, highlighting many of the features available with OpenPlatform. |
| Performance Testing on the Infinity Platform |
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Jeff Corwin, Manager, CRM Quality Assurance, Blackbaud, Inc.
Josh Garwood, CRM Automation Engineering Team Lead, Blackbaud, Inc.
Learn how Blackbaud is leveraging Visual Studio Team Edition's performance-testing toolset to ensure peak performance on our latest platform. In this session, we will discover how Visual Studio Team Test can be used to accommodate a multitude of testing scenarios ranging from individual unit tests to full-scale stress tests with thousands of simultaneous users. We will also discuss our experience at a highly sophisticated testing facility and the results from that trip. Furthermore, you will gain a fundamental understanding of how we have streamlined load tests to be part of our daily build process, how scripts can be tailored to fit specialized requirements, and how we report and compare results from each load test execution. |
| Introduction to the Infinity SDK |
Ben Lambert, Software Architect, Core Technology, Blackbaud, Inc.
Join Ben Lambert for a tour of Blackbaud’s Infinity Platform SDK. Topics covered will include feature-level security, page customization using the Shell Designer GUI, and using the SDK to build completely custom solutions that integrate seamlessly into Infinity-based applications. |
| Using the Infinity SDK |
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Ben Lambert, Ben Lambert, Software Architect, Core Technology, Blackbaud, Inc.
As a follow-uo to the Introduction to the Infinity SDK session, Ben Lambert will show detailed examples of items built using Blackbaud’s Infinity Platform SDK. Ben will also provide tips on how Infinity product users can use the SDK on their own. Note: "Introduction to the Infinity SDK" is a prerequisite to this session. |
| Business Intelligence on the Infinity Platform |
Paul Crowder, Senior Software Engineer, Core Technology, Blackbaud, Inc.
Paul will discuss various “reach” scenarios where data from the Infinity web service can be accessed from customer applications instead of from the traditional shell. Examples will include Web Dashboard, Microsoft Excel add-ins, Vista Gadgets, Yahoo! Widgets, and more. This session will not only focus on the customer applications that Blackbaud itself has delivered, but how the Infinity platform makes it possible for customers themselves to use our web services to include Infinity data in their own applications. |
| Test Technology: Ensuring Quality through Robust Automation |
David Tunesi, Director of Accounting and Education Solutions, Blackbaud, Inc.
Tom Ramsey, Engineer, Blackbaud, Inc.
The mantra of developing quality products is to test early, test often, and test well. In an age where software needs to be portable and development cycles are shorter, robust automation is essential to providing product quality. By leveraging Microsoft® .Net 3.0 and the principles of keyword-based testing, Blackbaud has created an architecture allowing automation to navigate products just as a user would. Keyword based testing is the leading theory that by automating the product in one central location, test cases can be simplified to human readable lists of these “building blocks” in XML. Backed by Microsoft® IntelliSense and integrated into the build process, Blackbaud is able to have quality assurance analysts write test cases that run against every internal build, ensuring defects are caught as they are introduced. |
| PCI Compliance and Blackbaud Payment Service |
Larry Mishkin, System Architect, Core Technologies, Blackbaud, Inc.
Jake Marcinko, Manager, Information Security, Blackbaud, Inc.
Join Information Security Manager Jake Marcinko and System Architect Larry Mishkin for an in-depth view of the technical approach Blackbaud has employed to ensure PA-DSS compliance and to help you become PCI-DSS compliant. This session will disclose the technical aspects of application changes and the Blackbaud Payment Service, a software service developed to manage credit card data from Blackbaud applications in a single, secure, online, and PCI-compliant system. |
| WebPurchasing: Web Development using Blackbaud’s 7.X API and Emerging Technologies |
Shiran Algai, Software Engineer II, Blackbaud, Inc.
Description coming soon. |
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