Though previously a public company, following its 2011 buyout by Providence Equity Partners Blackboard now operates as a private company.
Blackboard Learn Self- and Managed-Hosting Deployments.
the AWS CloudBlackboard Uses the AWS Cloud to Transform Digital Learning Worldwide. Every day, in thousands of classrooms in every corner of the world—from Shanghai to South Africa—teachers and students depend on Blackboard's EdTech platform to advance education.
Blackboard Learn is hosted, delivered, and managed using a modern cloud-computing infrastructure as the environment for our software-as-a-service (SaaS) deployment.
An institution that utilizes Blackboard Learn on-premise at their institution controls the entire deployment from the foundational storage to the firewall endpoint.Sep 16, 2019
While D2L has challenges in market position and introduction of a new data and analytics approach, they are completing the transition to a SaaS platform company and focusing on flexibility and services.Mar 3, 2019
Where is Cloud data located? All data associated with Blackboard's Cloud Services is hosted in Blackboard's Cloud infrastructure. This cloud infrastructure includes services and components hosted both within Blackboard Managed Hosting data centers and the Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure.
The AWS toolset, including Amazon Lex, allows us to rapidly build and deploy chat and AI-based tools throughout our platform, in a very integrated and robust way. We are proud of our strategic work with AWS.Aug 24, 2020