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Blackboard's recent earnings, overall growth of CMS industry
http://www.cpwire.com/archive/2003/11/4/1430.asp This news release basically backs up what was coming out of Blackboard’s conference a few months back, that they are making money and finally turning a profit. But I thought it was worth posting because of this other line – “Blackboard`s yearly revenue was $620,000 in 1998 and $69.2 million in 2002″ or in [...]
California State University Signs System Wide Deal with Blackboard Inc.
http://www.cpwire.com/archive/2003/9/24/1396.asp “The California State University system has adopted the Blackboard Learning System and the Blackboard Portal System to meet the e-Education needs of more than 414,000 students and 46,000 faculty and staff.” Wow. There have been quite a few large CMS RFPs and competitions over the last year (Wisconsin, Minnesota, MiCTA to name a few) [...]
Blackboard to Launch Learning Content Management and e-Portfolio System for Academic Market
I had heard talk recently of Blackboard entering the ‘content management’ marketplace, and the speaker was puzzled why they would want to do this. From the looks of there announcement, they are not necessarily trying to compete with your standard web content management system that serves your public web presence (thought it’s not clear that [...]
Blackboard Announces Revenue of $22.6 Million For Second Quarter 2003
Just as David Carter-Tod mentioned in a comment on an earlier post about eCollege’s latest earnings statement, Blackboard has now come out with this revenue announcement and a statement about “positive cash flow.” Maybe someone can explain the difference in the two announcements to me (I know that one of them, eCollege, is publicly traded and thus [...]
Blackboard and SCT integration
Via Wilbert Kraan at CETIS comes news of the announcement that a certain amount of integration between SCT Banner and Blackboards CMS will now be available through the use of some connector technology from the recent SCT acquisition Campus Pipeline. This is definitely of interest in and of itself, but the article is well worth a [...]
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