Anthology Inc.
| Company type | Privately held |
|---|---|
| Industry | Educational technology |
| Founded | January 21, 1997 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Founders | |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
Number of locations | 18 |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Services | Platform and enterprise consulting, managed hosting, student and training services, online program management |
| Revenue | $700 million (2018) |
Number of employees | 3,000 (2012) |
| Parent | Providence Equity Partners Veritas Capital |
| Website | www |
Anthology Inc., previously Blackboard, is an American educational technology company with corporate headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida. Blackboard was known for Blackboard Learn, a learning management system. Blackboard Inc. merged with Anthology in late 2021.
The company's last CEO was William L. Ballhaus, former president and CEO of SRA International, who was also named chairman and president, on January 4, 2016, following the resignation of Jay Bhatt, who had led Blackboard since October 2012. The firm provides education, mobile, communication, and commerce software and related services to clients, including education providers, corporations and government organizations. The software consists of seven platforms called Learn, Transact, Engage, Connect, Mobile, Collaborate and Analytics, which are offered as bundled software. The firm was founded by Stephen Gilfus, Daniel Cane, Michael Chasen and Matthew Pittinsky through a business combination in 1997, and became a public company in 2004. It operated publicly until it was purchased by Providence Equity Partners in 2011 and Veritas Capital in January 2020.
Once the North American market leader among learning management systems, it has continued to lose market share to D2L Brightspace and open-source competitors Moodle and Canvas, retaining only 17% of the market as of 2023.