We host our own servers, and I was surprised to find that the Events management app connects first to a Blackbaud Mobile Application Server, then to Microsoft's Windows Azure infrastructure (in the US!), before finally reaching our Blackbaud Web Services server, followed by our Raiser's Edge database server.

One of the reasons we host our servers is because we want control of our flow of data. We're unhappy enough to find this data routes through Blackbaud servers, and especially annoyed to find it routes through the US. This isn't just an issue about security, but also about the addition of points of failure and latency to the service.

We would like to see the app modified to connect directly to our server running Blackbaud Web Services.