third-party solutions

Jerry Brown

We are currently looking at a third party solution (Adaptive Insights) for budget planning and analytics. Does anyone have experience with them or recommendations for other vendor integration applications?

Karen Edwards

We actually use Adaptive already, but do not have it integrated with FE at this time.  It is something we want to do though, so I would be interested in any solutions you might come up with.  I believe Adaptive has some integration options, but I just haven't had an opportunity to dig into it.  The last time I was able to look into it (which has been a while), Adaptive was recommending having their contracted partner develop a solution, but I didn't really want to have to go to another party to make changes going forward due to the expense.  

Jessica Fleming

Hi Jerry, If you haven't already, you might want to check out Questica (formerly PowerPlan Advanced Budget Management). They have been a Blackbaud/Financial Edge partner for many years. 
https://www.questica.com/best-budgeting-forecasting-integrations-for-blackbaud-fe-nxt/

Kristen Cadarette

Hey there.  We've been using PowerPlan for years.  The database view is getting a bit outdated and clunky, so we're in the process of migrating to the cloud version.  They've done some user-friendly updates and there's literally a button that lets you move data back and forth from PowerPlan and NXT instead of having to do the previously more tedious data transfer process.  

The integration with NXT is pretty much built in with the cloud version of PP.   Hope this helps.