Blackboard Inc., the world's leading education technology company, has announced two new options for deploying its flagship learning management system (LMS) Blackboard Learn™ via Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Blackboard Learn SaaS Plus and Blackboard Learn SaaS Advantage are now available for higher education institutions in the United States.
This announcement is the latest milestone in the company's plan to provide its customers with customised, flexible and powerful options for deploying their LMS.
The SaaS offerings, which will be available in two tiers differentiated by their respective options and service levels, build on the company's expertise and cloud deployment options by allowing customers to experience their current version of Blackboard Learn in a more flexible and customisable way. Customers using Learn in a SaaS environment have access to significant benefits such as zero-downtime upgrades, higher quality through continuous delivery of regular bug fixes, new services innovation, and increased scalability.
The new Plus and Advantage tiers give institutions the ability to scale, customise and configure Blackboard Learn for their specific and individual needs. These tiers of SaaS also offer more support for commercial and custom-built integrations, additional service tiers, and a new Flexible Deployment Option. The Flexible Deployment Option allows schools to have control over when new features and enhancements are deployed to their environment.
The SaaS Plus and SaaS Advantage offerings are currently available to higher education institutions in the United States. Details about availability in other markets are forthcoming.
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