Monday, February 22, 2010

Re: Blackbaud Raiser's Edge/Financial Edge OnDemand

Please keep this thread open.

Thanks!

Catherine


On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Terry Dash <Terry_Dash@pikeschool.org>wrote:

> Hi -
>
> We are considering moving to Blackbaud's OnDemand hosting services for
> Raiser's Edge and Financial Edge, and we are looking for some feedback
> about them. (We currently run these applications from on Windows servers
> within our LAN.)
>
> If you have migrated to Blackbaud's OnDemand services, we would appreciate
> knowing:
>
> 1. What do you like best about the OnDemand services?
>
> 2. What are your biggest concerns? Have you been able to overcome
> them?
>
> 3. Are the other pros and cons of these hosting services (from your
> end AND the users' points of view) that you'd like to mention?
>
> 4. Do you experience unacceptable lag times when running queries,
> exports, and reports OR other symptoms that may be related to insufficient
> server capacity or Internet bandwidth? Did you detect this slowness during
> your testing phase? If you have been able to overcome these problems, how
> did you do so?
>
> 5. What lessons were learned or comments do you have regarding the
> migration process?
>
> 6. What justified the increased cost of moving to OnDemand?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Terry
>
> . . .
> Terry Dash
> Director of Technology
> Pike School
> Andover, MA 01810
>
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Xavier College Preparatory
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