Deployment Requirements

Before you deploy the Blackbaud Data Warehouse, you must install Blackbaud CRM. System requirements for Blackbaud CRM are posted on the System Requirements page of the Blackbaud website.

With Blackbaud CRM in place, the following requirements are necessary to deploy the data warehouse on the database server.

• SQL Server 2019

• SQL Server components

  • SQL Server Integration Services (part of SQL Server install)

  • SQL Server Analysis Services (part of SQL Server install)

  • SQL Server Reporting Services (part of SQL Server install)

  • SQL Server Analysis Management Objects

In addition to these requirements and the Blackbaud CRM system requirements, you should have:

• Administrative access to the database server where you deploy the Blackbaud Data Warehouse

• Administrative access to the SQL Server instance for the data warehouse

• Administrative access to the SQL Server Analysis Services instance where you deploy a Blackbaud Data Warehouse OLAP database

• Administrative access or at least write and execute access to the SQL Server instance for the Blackbaud CRM transactional database

• Blackbaud CRM application administrative access