You've been hearing about this for a while. Benefactor is going away and the data from it will be migrated to Colleague Advancement. We officially start the migration process in two weeks, as part of Datatel's "Cohort F".
But don't think that means we haven't started working towards our end goal! Todd Fox from Development has been preparing for the migration for quite some time now - maybe two years- cleaning up Benefactor data and running pre-conversion programs. Mary Jane Lombardi did a lot of the early work, writing paragraphs and virtual fields to help with the conversion programs which, when Todd and Mary Jane started this, weren't as robust as they are now. And I'm trying to learn as much about Benefactor and Colleague as I can, to be ready for the tasks we're about to undertake.
Modeled after the R18 blog that Pete Gifford kept during the conversion from R17 to R18, I plan to use this blog as a diary of our journey from Benefactor to Colleague Advancement. It's safe to say that I have little idea of what lies ahead in the coming year, but I do know one thing. We CAN get there from here!