Concourse | Better Value for Blackbaud CRM

Shared Physical Host

Starting at

$ 35,000 /year

Up to 50 CRM Users
Up to 2 Environments
Fixed Resource Allocation
SQL Licensing Included

Is This The Right Fit For Us?

Your needs are simple. Your organization runs BBCRM “out of the box” with few, if any, customizations and no ongoing custom development.

Single Dedicated Physical Host

Starting at

$ 82,500 /year

Up to 250 CRM Users
Up to 4 Environments
Flexible Resource Allocation
SQL Licensing Not Included

Is This the Right Fit For Us?

You have a number of customizations and standard integrations such as PaperSave. You have an ongoing inhouse custom development effort or are just starting one.

Multiple Dedicated Physical Hosts

Starting at

$ 150,000 /year

More than 250 CRM Users
Unlimited Environments
Flexible Resource Allocation
SQL Licensing Not Included

Is This the Right Fit for Us?

Your needs are complex with significant custom integrations, some of which may be on-premise, in the cloud, or both. You have multiple custom development efforts.

Pure Storage

$5,000/TB/yr

We calculate the actual storage used across all systems and environments, rounded up to the nearest TB. For example, if your total storage footprint adds up to 1.4TB, your cost would be $10,000/yr.

As a technical note, storage can be tricky to calculate due to thin provisioning. However, our storage layer uses VMware vVol technology. File clean up and UNMAP happen automatically. Any temporarily provisioned storage gets reclaimed as free space. To translate, this means we’re able to calculate your actual storage used at any point in time.

Storage costs apply only to systems running on Pure Storage. Systems that process and store backups are excluded.

SQL Server

Bring Your Own License

or $55,000/yr

If your hosting solution includes a dedicated physical host, the entire hardware must be licensed to use Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Edition. This allows the physical host to run an unlimited number of virtual servers with SQL. Each dedicated physical host has two (2) 8-core sockets for a total of 16 cores.

For those with multiple dedicated physical hosts, you only need to license the host running your Production instances of SQL.

For example, one physical host may run the Production environment and a second physical host all the other environments. In this case, you need only license the physical host running Production.

SSL Certificates

From $250/yr

Concourse partners with the industry leader, DigiCert to provide and manage SSL Certificates on your behalf.

As of September 1, 2020 only 1-year certificates are available.

Below are the types of certificates available:

Single Domain SSL

Standard 1 year – $250
Extended Validation 1 year – $425

Multi-Domain SSL

Multi-Domain 1 year – $450
Extended Validation 1 year – $700
Wildcard 1 year – $850

Why Doesn't Concourse Include a SQL License for Dedicated Physical Hosts?

We’re a small business and you’re a nonprofit. Neither of us wants to give any more money to Microsoft than we absolutely have to!

Many nonprofits can obtain Microsoft SQL licenses at a discount. We allow the option for you to use a SQL license you may already have.

Concourse is a Microsoft Licensed Mobility Partner. As such, Microsoft allows the use of your eligible license of Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Edition with us. To qualify, your license must be under an eligible Microsoft Volume License agreement with Software Assurance.

In summary, your SQL licensing options are:

Option A: Bring Your Own License. You will need eight (8) 2-core bundles of Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Edition.
Option B: License using Concourse. In this case, your cost for each 2-core bundle is $6,875/yr for a total additional cost of $55,000/yr.

Keep in mind this cost only applies if your hosting solution includes one or more dedicated physical hosts.