Data Moose provides Blackbaud clients with hosted data warehouses for Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® and Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT®. Everything we do is based on the SKY API, and the data model includes the available fields. Our hosted data warehouses allow users to build custom reports, integrate with other systems, or just have the peace of mind knowing your data is backed up and fully within your control.

The good news is that if you are 100% satisfied with canned reports in Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT and Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT, you wouldn’t! But institutions that need complex custom reporting through Power BI, Tableau, and F9,or integration with external data sets, will need to transition to a fully API powered approach. Data Moose simplifies and de-risks this process by automatically populating a refreshed data warehouse on a hosted server that your organization controls.

Based on information from Blackbaud, when the transition is completed to NXT, clients will need to use the SKY API for all data access, including reporting. Data Moose clients should expect to rewrite and update legacy reports to use the new data model derived from the SKY API. It will not match the old exports and queries, which were based on the old data model. While this may pose a level of inconvenience, once your reports match the SKY API data model, you should be good to go for years to come. And as Blackbaud enhances the SKY API with new data points, Data Moose will keep your warehouse up to date and current with any changes to the API.

While Blackbaud is a large company with enormous resources, at their heart, their focus is making industry-leading software. Data hosting was a legacy project for Blackbaud; one that did not conform to the future-facing API programming that is the basis of the NXT platform. It is our understanding that they are getting entirely out of the hosting business, and this is no longer an option. Please contact Blackbaud support for more information.

Not Currently. Data Moose connects through Blackbaud’s SKY API in a read-only direction into a data warehouse. We do not write back to either Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® or Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT®. In theory, your developers could use our data as the basis of an integration, but your technology team would need to work out how to write back the data to Blackbaud systems.

Pricing for Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT and Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT are based on number of FE users and RE constituents. Your account representative can quote you a specific amount based on your current and future needs.

Once we receive a signed agreement from you, we will start provisioning your hardware. While we are provisioning your hardware, you will connect your environment to our Marketplace application and authorize us to access your data. Once the provisioning is done and authorization has been given, we will start the initial load of your data. Based on the size of your data, the initial import can take anywhere from a couple of hours to several days for large data sets with millions of records. Ongoing updates only synchronize the changes, so they are much smaller and take place on an automated schedule, keeping a fresh copy of your NXT data available when you need it.