Results-Driven Databases

With over ten years experience utilizing Blackbaud Raiser's Edge® and Microsoft Access, SOS consultants can help you put organization-wide processes in place that will transcend employee turnover, minimize error and enhance fundraising efforts.

With headquarters in Louisville, KY, we are a convenient regional Raiser's Edge® Training and Consulting provider to the surrounding metropolitan areas of Lexington, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Nashville and St. Louis.

Raiser's Edge Training

• SOS provides customized training on Blackbaud Raiser's Edge® scheduled as convenient for your organization
• We offer comprehensive training courses or targeted training for specific content areas or staff concentrations
• Design-your-own Raiser's Edge® training
• Detailed courses available for technical staff to cover advanced queries, imports, global changes, administrative setup details for efficiency
• Overview courses for executive staff covering accurate understanding of records and Raiser's Edge® database structure, using notes and actions and easy report access.
• We present training utilizing your own Raiser's Edge® data so that information provided is contextual
• Initial evaluations of staff fluency offered to determine training areas needed
• Training presented on-site or online
• Development of custom organizational Raiser's Edge® data procedure manuals for reference after the training
• On-call support available after the initial training is completed.

Raiser's Edge Consulting

• SOS consultants' specialize in the cleaning and reorganization of data in Raiser's Edge® to optimize output efficiency
• Our experience with data analysis for Fortune 500 companies makes us uniquely qualified to perform analyses on your constituent data to identify areas of opportunity for the development team
• Can offer presentation of an analysis plan that can be used by staff moving forward to track success
• Planning for and performing the initial database setup and/or conversion of data from a different system to Blackbaud Raiser's Edge®.
• Providing staff training to help ensure that initial data entry processes are established to achieve reliable information output
• We offer development of process outlines for the integration of data from multiple software systems or departments in coordination with Raiser's Edge®

Microsoft Access Database Development

• Creation of a customized Microsoft Access database can be a good solution for smaller organizations who prefer not to have ongoing support and hosting costs
• SOS can work with your staff to create a database fully-tailored to your data storage and output needs

The marks Blackbaud® and The Raiser's Edge® are registered trademarks of Blackbaud, Inc. Stellar Organizational Solutions, Inc. is an independent consulting firm and as such is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Blackbaud, Inc.