Blackboard and SunGard Collaborate

Blackboard, the e-learning giant, and SunGard Higher Education, the information-management provider, on Thursday announced a partnership that they say will make life easier for the colleges that use both companies’ services. Under the new agreement, each company will make a new effort to familiarize itself with the other’s products, with the promise of better integrations between those products and better support if any of those integrations go awry. “Our clients rely heavily on integrations between SunGard and Blackboard products,” noted Ray Henderson, president of Blackboard Learn, in a news release.