Do you use Finalsite's website product but everything else Blackbaud? What is your experience with the integration?

We use Finalsite for our website, all-school newsletters via eNotify and some forms - we have a strong need for conditional formatting that isn't yet available in the k-12 forms content.  We can talk via direct message about Finalsite's enrollment product if you'd like.  We do a lot of hyper links back and forth between the two products and don't seem to have much of an issue.  We created a "quicklink" to our Blackbaud products for parents and for going through the inquiry/application process.  You're welcome to take a look at the setup:  www.cascadesacademy.org

Sondra, Will you give us an update on your process and findings?  Following ...

We had finalsite before K-12 and kept finalsite so we use everything K-12 except website. Our 2 biggest issues as I see it (as database admin) are these:

Our Communications Director dislikes the pushpage options over finalistes enotify builder so we've gone back to exporting lists to finalsite. Finalsite recently launched an integration with K-12 admissions module to pull data on candidates so you can do targeted email marketing campaigns based on candidate data. I personally hate worrying about keeping those finalsite lists up to date since I don't have direct access to do it myself. Second would be the use of News in the portal. It does't integrate with Finalsite either direction. She would like us to be able to push news from the website, formatted the way she likes it, into the portal. So becuase we can't we don't really use the news feature in the portal. I think Finaliste does have an integration for athletics schedules but it costs extra so we don't have it. I post the schedules to the website manually and the AD does the schedule in the portal.