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Originally Posted by fmathis 
Our university is migrating to Jenzabar EX. I'd like to "feel the waters" of how well your office supports Development on Raisers' Edge when the rest of the university is on Jenzabar EX, wether you are maintaining both manually or have developed an interface between the two.
If your Development/Advancement office uses Raisers' Edge while the rest of the campus uses Jenzabar EX and you are willing to discuss your pros and cons, please contact me off line. Or if you Development office recently migrated off Jenzabar EX to Raisers' Edge and you would be willing to discuss why.
Thanks!
I've not been in the situation where Jenzabar and RE are used at the same institution, but where I worked previously we had Jenzabar, and the place I am now uses RE + Banner.
The RE features and ease of use
far out-strip anything Jenzabar EX does, so the advantage to your Dev Office would be significant I believe. Data exchange/sycnonicity is always the hard part. At the school with Jenzabar, a completely in-house educational institute info management system was being built - module by module pieces of Jenzabar were being replaced. Custom data syncronization was coded for each transitional period. It's a large undertaking, and only the admissions/student services module had been fully instated last I knew.
When I used to design reports and custom software tools for reporting out data from Jenzabar, I ended up developing a custom reporting tool (.NET desktop app) that created an actually useful (complete) Profile Report (Word doc output format) rendering 1 or more constituents (by feeding it a list of Jenzabar IDs, or by choosing some specialized queries built into the app). I debugged it / refined it constantly, but it was so necessisary given what the dev officers needed but which we
could not be produced with canned OR even the custom report-writer bundled with EX.
Anyway, not sure if this helps your endeaver, but all the best!
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