BrightArrow Technologies, founded in 1997, in Bellevue, Washington, is funded and owned by its management team. The original development team is still the driving force behind the company, which is beneficial with updates happening at an accelerated pace. BrightArrow’s primary focus is automated notification for its fast-growing school district customer base.

Raymond Bily, Founder and CEO graduated from MIT in 1982 in Computer Engineering. At MIT, his thesis was the world’s first microcomputer-based relational database management system. He was one of the early Microsoft employees as an engineer and product manager from 1982 to 1986 and was Founder and CEO of Midisoft from 1986 to 1996, a company he brought to the #1 position in music/audio software and took public in 1993.

In 1997, Mr. Bily started BrightArrow by assembling a team of 10 engineers to develop an underlying core of voice technology that has led to the delivery of many voice-oriented solutions. During the first 10 years of the company, these solutions were bundled with major IP-PBX manufacturers as broadly-functional voice telecommunication applications.

In 2003, BrightArrow developed, for 3Com, a product called Education Module, which used its core technologies to deliver as part of the 3Com IP-PBX the following features: Parent auto-dialing, 911 notifications, malicious call trace, on-demand call recording, homework hotline, intercom, school bells and a speech recognition auto-attendant. This BrightArrow-developed solution was sold to school districts of various sizes as its most utilized feature set.

In 2008, BrightArrow introduced its hosted, web-based mass notification system.  The company rapidly expanded its customer base by integrating with the most sought-after Student Information Systems (SIS’s), including Blackbaud, PowerSchool, Infinite Campus and Skyward.

In 2011, BrightArrow introduced its PowerSchool integration at the first annual National PSUG event. The BrightArrow functionality is embedded into PowerSchool’s Admin pages, PowerTeacher/PowerTeacher Pro, and the Parent Portal. BrightArrow also integrated with Blackbaud, providing the only alert system using a direct API real-time connection.  BrightArrow now integrates with over 100 data sources, including additional SIS’s, Human Resources, Transportation and Meal Service databases.

BrightArrow integrates with school databases, but also provides integration for any organization that needs fast, easy, reliable mass notification.