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July 12, 2023

Attain Partners' Alliance Partnerships

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Aligning for Sustained Impact

Attain Partners is proud to form meaningful, strategic partnerships with like-minded organizations that share our passion for creating people-driven solutions. Read on to discover how Attain Partners collaborates with the market’s leading product and solutions providers—including Salesforce, Blackthorn.io, Cayuse, Formstack, UC Innovation, and Vera Solutions—to empower clients across the social and public sectors.

Cayuse

Attain Partners and Cayuse are the driving force behind how research is managed and administered. Cayuse’s integrated, cloud-based research platform powers a suite of applications that maximizes researcher success, improves collaboration, and streamlines work across the entire research lifecycle, including the commercialization of research outcomes. As a Cayuse preferred partner, Attain Partners’ subject matter expertise—including pre-award and post-award grants management, regulatory compliance, classified research administration, and more—combined with Cayuse’s leading-edge software creates a power-driven partner dynamic that improves both business processes’ technology and research administration.

Our passionate team of experts, paired with the Cayuse integrated, cloud-based platform, enables us to efficiently improve research administration business processes and increase efficiency and compliance.
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Managing Partner and Practice Lead, Attain Partners

Attain Partners teams with Cayuse to offer guidance to clients during implementations, ensuring that institutions are able to fully utilize the system functionality and incorporate industry best practices while streamlining their business processes. We also offer change management support during the implementation process, leading the client through the process of engaging stakeholders and communicating change to prepare institutions for a successful product rollout. 

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Case Study: eRA Implementation Success at the University of Wyoming

On-demand Webinar: Better Together—How Wyoming Accelerated Its Path to Success with Cayuse and Attain Partners

Press Release: The University of Wyoming enhances its culture of collaboration with Cayuse and Attain Partners

On-demand Webinar: eRA Implementation Insights with Tulane University, Attain Partners, and Cayuse

Salesforce

Salesforce is a cloud platform and the leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of enterprise customer relationship management, enterprise collaboration, and cloud application development. As the Salesforce 2022 Consulting Partner of the Year – Education and a Salesforce Summit Partner, our consultants leverage proven expertise—gained in part from delivering 1,000+ Salesforce projects and counting—to provide education institutions and nonprofit organizations with extensive implementation, strategy development, and managed services support.

With a deep understanding of the education, nonprofit, and public sectors, Attain Partners can implement and optimize the agile, multi-channel cloud platform that Salesforce provides to support enterprise constituent relationship management, marketing automation, fundraising and advancement, program management, application development, enterprise collaboration, integration with legacy applications, and mobile application development initiatives.

I’m extremely proud of our Summit Partner achievement and our strong relationship with Salesforce. Together, we are changing the world, creating impactful results that propel our clients forward to realize their missions.
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Greg Baroni
Founder and CEO, Attain Partners

Through our managed services offering, Managed Services for CRM (previously AttainPlus), we enable our customers to grow in their use of Salesforce. Managed Services for CRM is a support and maintenance program that provides the right resources so you can evolve and maximize the benefits of your Salesforce solution. Our plans provide you access to a dedicated team of experts, supplementing or avoiding the need for a full-time resource that may not have the wide range of expertise or time needed to provide the support you need. We partner with and extend your team by leveraging system administration services, including Salesforce CRM, Marketing Cloud, and more. We help build your skills, manage your systems, and extend your team when you need it.

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Blog Posts: Salesforce

Award: 2022 Salesforce.org Consulting Partner of the Year – Education

Service: Salesforce Innovation

Client Spotlight: CU Leeds

Our robust and enduring partnership with Salesforce has not only fortified our position as a leading consulting and implementation partner in the ecosystem—it has also been instrumental in facilitating a network of symbiotic relationships with the platform’s leading product providers, including Blackthorn.io, Formstack, Vera Solutions, and UC Innovation.

Through our partnership with Salesforce, we have cultivated a broad network of strategic product partners—Vera Solutions’ Amp Impact, UC Innovation’s ascend, Blackthorn.io’s Blackthorn Events, and Formstack’s Formstack Forms, to name a few—who share our commitment to innovation and excellence. These alliances have further enhanced our ability to deliver unparalleled value to our clients by harnessing the full power of Salesforce.
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alanna Steffens
Managing Director and Salesforce Capability Lead, Attain Partners

Blackthorn.io: Blackthorn Events

When it comes to event management, Blackthorn and Salesforce have the technology you need to make it happen—and Attain Partners can design and implement a tailored solution. Leveraging Blackthorn allows organizations to do more events and spend less time on management.

As the 2022 Salesforce Consulting Partner of the Year – Education, Attain Partners proudly collaborates with 2022 Salesforce Product Partner of the Year – Education, Blackthorn, to provide event management support through Blackthorn Events. Whether you are looking for advanced analytics and reporting available with a Tableau integration or a full 360-degree view of your attendees and their interactions with your organization/institution, Attain Partners has experience helping clients make Blackthorn Events work for all types of events, and we can do the same for you.

With Attain Partners’ solution design and implementation expertise and Blackthorn’s superior product capabilities, your organization can easily establish a system to plan and run events with efficiency and ease.
Jason Cook
Jason Cook
Principal Consultant, Attain Partners

From growing donor relationships to predicting student success, Attain Partners and Blackthorn have what it takes to empower end-to-end event and communication management to ensure your organization delivers innovation and impact.

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Blog Post: No matter your event needs, Attain Partners and Blackthorn have you covered

On-demand Webinar: Double Down on Your CRM Investment – End-to-End Events and Communications on Salesforce by Attain Partners and Blackthorn

Formstack: Formstack Forms

For university recruiting and admissions teams, it’s important to have an optimized, mobile-ready, and easy-to-use application. But why does delivering the best possible application experience have to be so difficult? The answer—it doesn’t!

Attain Partners and Formstack collaborated to create an optimized, mobile-ready, and easy-to-use application process for higher education institutions. Our Admissions Application Template is designed to accelerate your Salesforce Admissions Connect implementation—reducing time and expense to go-live with Education Cloud Admissions Connect.

Your application is your first impression with your students. Formstack is an intuitive and powerful tool that allows your team to create quality forms that integrate well with Salesforce. Attain Partners’ Admission Application Template is a way to not only impress future students—but also a quick and simple way for your staff to customize forms to engage with those students and send them through a seamless admissions process.
Catherine Sylvester
Specialist Leader, Attain Partners

Formstack for Salesforce is an all-in-one forms, documents, and digital e-signature solution that empowers anyone to automate processes and streamline the customer experience—all without leaving Salesforce. Used by more than 800 colleges and universities worldwide, Formstack’s solutions work natively within Salesforce to allow schools to transform outdated paper processes into powerful digital workflows that span across several departments.

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Blog Post: Formstack-Based Application Template

Video: Attain Partners Salesforce Admissions Connect Application Template

On-demand Webinar: How to Create an Optimized, Mobile-ready Application Experience

Article: Formstack and Attain Partners Collaborate on Salesforce Admissions Connect Initiative

UC Innovation: ascend

Through its ascend product, UC Innovation provides one of the most comprehensive advancement and constituent engagement solutions in the market. Attain Partners is an official ascend Certified Implementation Partner with 19 ascend certifications (and counting!) across our team, recognizing our certified proficiency in implementing and leveraging the solution. This recognition, combined with our Salesforce Summit Partner status and Expert status in Education Cloud, allows us to transform the way advancement teams work.

Attain Partners’ collaborative efforts with UC Innovation exemplify how a great partnership leads to great results. We are proud to partner with UC Innovation to lead digital transformation with ascend and support the missions of institutions across North America.
Matt Roush
Senior Architect, Attain Partners

Using ascend and Salesforce together allows institutions to select solutions that do exactly what they need to provide a better user experience, work together with greater efficiency, and drive advancement goals forward.

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Blog Post: Advancement Transformation and Centralized Solutions: Top Trends Among ascend Users

Video: Attain Partners and UC Innovation – Using ascend for Advancement

Vera Solutions: Amp Impact

Attain Partners is proud to be a formal partner and implementer of Vera Solutions’ Amp Impact. Built directly on the Salesforce platform, Amp Impact brings data and teams together across the program lifecycle to revolutionize the way organizations track and measure their impact.

Our communities depend on the social sector—especially during challenging times like we’ve experienced over the last few years. However, nonprofit organizations are constantly pushed to do more with less and simultaneously demonstrate success with data. We believe Amp Impact closes the ‘input to impact’ gap challenging many nonprofits.
Kristi Phillips
Managing Director and Nonprofit Market Lead, Attain Partners

Attain Partners is proud to be among an exclusive group of partners around the world enabled to implement this tool. The massive growth and accelerated pace of delivering success to our shared clients is thrilling. Leveraging Vera Solutions’ innovative product, we empower nonprofit organizations to generate holistic insights that will inform decisions and ultimately transform programs—and our communities—for the better.

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On-demand Webinar: Supercharging Your Impact Measurement with Attain Partners and Amp Impact

Video: Attain Partners and Amp Impact

Blog Post: Partnership Announcement: Attain Partners and Amp Impact

Attain Partners’ Alliance Partners

We founded Attain Partners to make an impact—to help organizations achieve their missions faster and more efficiently so they can operate at their highest levels. We are grateful to work alongside the market’s leading product and solution providers, forging alliances that combine our consultative expertise with cutting-edge technology to transform the way organizations drive impact and deliver excellence.

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