Date Posted: 9/17/2007
Kintera Connect Partner Program Continues to Gain Momentum
New Partners Join Growing Program to Extend Applications from Kintera's Open Technology Platform, Kintera Connect
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kintera® Inc. (NASDAQ:KNTA - News) today announced that technology providers in both the nonprofit and enterprise arenas continue to join the Kintera Connect Partner Program to develop and implement innovative solutions to help nonprofits bridge the gaps in their technology and business needs.
Recent additions to the Kintera Connect Partner Program include bswift, Masterworks, and CircleUp. Applications to be integrated with Kintera's platform include software and services for human resources and benefits technology, advanced data analytics, and social communication services.
"Kintera's open technology platform will give nonprofits more choices and provide solutions to enhance productivity and operational efficiency," said Richard Gallun, chief executive officer for bswift, a provider of software and services to help organizations streamline HR, benefits, and payroll administration. "bswift's menu of software and services is a natural complement to Kintera's accounting application. Nonprofits will be able to use bswift's smart, simple and savvy applications to save time and money on benefits and HR administration."
"Because Kintera and Masterworks both serve Christian organizations and provide complementary products and services, the decision to join the program was simple," said Lee Wilhite, senior vice president of client services for Masterworks, a full-service marketing and development agency serving Christian organizations. "With our analytics and Kintera's Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) application reporting, nonprofits will be able to gather more detailed information on constituent behavior to enhance and tailor their marketing efforts to achieve greater results."
In addition to bswift and Masterworks, CircleUp, a provider of social communication services for online and offline communities, has joined the Kintera Connect Partner Program. Today, when leaders ask a question or send a request to a group they get back a blizzard of e-mails that often include random answers, distractions and extraneous details that complicate and delay the information gathering, collaboration and decision-making process. CircleUp provides an easy way for organizers to communicate with groups or volunteers using e-mail or instant messaging, and receive a single, organized result that can be acted on immediately and shared with the group.
"CircleUp's technology, when integrated with Kintera's powerful platform, will provide nonprofits with a simple way to engage and communicate with supporters and volunteers," said John Payne, chief executive officer for CircleUp. "Because CircleUp provides a centralized way to view responses, track who has and hasn't responded, who has forwarded, as well as which recipients have taken action, it will make an excellent add-on to Kintera's Friends Asking Friends Kintera Thon."
"The Kintera Connect Partner Program is comprised of leading application partners in both the nonprofit and enterprise sectors," said Steve Johnson, vice president of channels for Kintera. "The addition of partners such as bswift, Masterworks, and CircleUp empowers nonprofits to make technology choices that increase efficiency, encourage giving, and provide overall enhancements to the experiences of both constituents and employees."
Built on Kintera Web services, the Kintera Connect platform enables application developers to integrate directly with Kintera technology. Such innovation provides nonprofits with solutions to address their unique challenges and the freedom to innovate. The Kintera Connect partner program currently includes well-known application providers such as TMA Resources, Campbell Rinker, Echopass, Jacobson Consulting, Solid Cactus, Razorsight and Quantrix.
For more information on Kintera Connect and to see a list of Connect partners, please visit www.kintera.com/kinteraconnect.
About Kintera, Inc.
Kintera®, Inc. (NASDAQ: KNTA - News) provides software as a service to help organizations quickly and easily reach more people, raise more money and run more efficiently. The Kintera Sphere® technology platform empowers The Giving Experience(TM), and features a social constituent relationship management (CRM) system, enabling donor management, e-mail and communications, Web sites, events, advocacy programs, wealth screening and accounting.
For more information about Kintera's software and services, visit www.kintera.com.
Kintera, Kintera Sphere, Friends Asking Friends, The Giving Experience, GivingFund, and FundWare are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Kintera, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.
Forward-Looking Statements
In addition to historical information, this press release contains forward-looking statements (including, without limitation, express or implied statements regarding the adoption of software solutions by nonprofit organizations) that involve risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements represent our estimates and assumptions only as of the date hereof. These statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are based on assumptions and subject to risks and uncertainties. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performances or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, without limitation: our limited operating history; our history of losses; our dependence on increased acceptance by nonprofit organizations of online fundraising; lengthy sales cycles for major customers; our need to manage growth; risks associated with accounting for and processing large amounts of donations; the rapidly changing technologies and market demands; and other risks identified in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Given these uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements.
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