Plans to Build Integration with Kintera to Connect New Students and Alumni
SAN DIEGO--Kintera® Inc. (NASDAQ:KNTA) today announced that Lending Club, an online people-to-people (P2P) lending service, has joined the Kintera Connect Partner Program. The new Kintera Connect open application integration platform enables developers and partners to integrate directly with Kintera technology, and extend their value within the nonprofit sector.
As a Kintera Connect partner, Lending Club will integrate with Kintera’s Alumni Engagement Center Solution to provide a seamless link of information from users on Kintera’s alumni site to LendingMatch™, Lending Club’s proprietary technology that helps match lenders with borrowers using connections established through social networks, associations and online communities.
“Being a Kintera Connect partner allows us to share our advanced P2P lending technology with top alumni networks nationwide who are powered by Kintera,” said Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO for Lending Club. “What this means is that for the first time alumni can go beyond donations; they can invest in each other and in their community, bypassing the banks to get better rates.”
Kintera Connect, the company’s open application integration platform, enables clients and partners to integrate with Kintera technology. Kintera Connect platform features applications provided by Kintera and its partner network such as customizable browser tools that enable clients to utilize the extensive segmentation capabilities of Kintera’s technology quickly and easily directly from the browser toolbar.
In addition to Kintera Connect, both clients and partners benefit from the company’s multi-tenant architecture. Unlike client/server or hosted ASP environments, Kintera's multi-tenancy enables all clients and applications to share one centrally maintained common infrastructure and code base. As a result, Kintera clients benefit from low costs, rapid deployment, ongoing maintenance and upgrades, and a focus on scalability and performance. The multi-tenant architecture creates a distinct boundary between Kintera's open platform and the applications that run on it. Kintera's multi-tenancy also provides consistent APIs, which means that Kintera partners can develop an application integrated with Kintera technology once and offer it repeatedly to other clients.
“The breadth and usability of Kintera’s Connect platform have made our partner program grow considerably,” said Steve Johnson, vice president of channels for Kintera. “Our partners are able to get more out of the platform and clients enjoy the new choices. By joining the Kintera Connect partner program, Lending Club is adding yet another useful and convenient solution to help nonprofits better serve their constituents.”
Lending Club joins more than 30 Kintera Connect partners building best-of-breed applications that provide nonprofits the freedom to choose applications that best meet their organization’s needs.
For more information on Kintera and a list of Connect partners, visit www.kintera.com/kinteraconnect .
About Kintera, Inc.
Kintera®, Inc. (NASDAQ: KNTA) provides software as a service to help organizations quickly and easily reach more people, raise more money and run more efficiently. The Kintera Sphere® technology platform empowers The Giving Experience™, and features a social constituent relationship management (CRM) system, enabling donor management, e-mail and communications, Web sites, events, advocacy programs, wealth screening and accounting. In addition, the Kintera Connect™ open platform enables clients and partners to integrate directly with Kintera technology, resulting in the availability of best of breed solutions through the Kintera Connect partner program.
For more information about Kintera’s software and services, visit www.kintera.com.
