Washington / District Of Columbia / United States
Founded in 1997, Blackboard is one of the leading providers of education-enterprise software applications and services. Consisting of five software applications bundled in two suites, the Blackboard Academic Suite and the Blackboard Commerce Suite, these products are licensed on a renewable basis. Blackboard s clients include primary and secondary schools, higher education, corporation and government markets, as well as textbook publishers and student-focused merchants. The company s online learning application, the Blackboard Learning System, is one of the most widely used course management systems among many postsecondary institutions in the United States. Blackboard is based in Washington, D.C., and has offices in Phoenix, the Netherlands, Japan and China.
