Founded in 1997 with a vision to transform the Internet into a powerful environment for the education experience, Blackboard is a leading provider of e-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.

Our global clients include primary and secondary schools, higher education, corporation and government markets as well as textbook publishers and student-focused merchants. Blackboard and its clients have pioneered the emergence of the e-Education industry around the world.

Our online learning application, the Blackboard Learning System, is the most widely-adopted course management system among U.S. postsecondary institutions.