The Infinity platform has been shipping with Blackbaud Enterprise CRM and Blackbaud Direct Marketing for almost a year now. This year will bring us the Infinity+NetCommunity powered offering Scorpio (code name). In the simplest terms Scorpio can be described as a "standalone" version of Blackbaud NetCommunity, meaning it can bring all the Web communication power of NetCommunity to folks that don't currently have an investment in The Raiser's Edge or Blackbaud Enterprise CRM.

 

Since its Web-centric CRM functionality is built on Infinity, Scorpio will also serve as a great strategic starting point for an organization planning to ultimately deploy a total Blackbaud solution centered around the Infinity platform.

Of course Infinity is the technology platform that will power all future generations of our current products (The Researcher's Edge, Raiser's Edge, Financial Edge, and all the other Edges...).

So with all that coming, and given that with Infinity we have a rich, standards-based Web API, people are asking the question: "What does this mean to me when I migrate from the 7.x generation of Blackbaud products to their shiny new 8.0 versions?"

While we don't have all the answers yet, in this short screencast we'll do a high level overview of our current thinking on this topic, and even give you an early peek at an exciting new research area focused on fostering developer ecosystems around our future offerings - The Cloud Catalog.