Culture has changed with acquisitions - Recensione dipendente - Consulting Manager presso Blackbaud

With multiple acquisitions the culture has changed. Feeling like management wants the professional services team to be more like a Big 6 consulting firm than a product company with value add services. Part of the challenge is that the Blackbaud CRM product requires so much in services that services are a large portion of company revenue. That being the case....there is pressure to push margins up on services so they don't drag the company margins down. If you look at most software companies the services are a much smaller portion of revenue and product companies will take lower services margins to focus on product sales, partner enablement and customer success. But Blackbaud can't afford to do that with the product / services mix. This results in a push to make the professional services team feel a lot more like a large system integrator with higher margins and that was not the culture many signed up for in years past. Higher utilization targets, some would say unrealistic, are causing morale challenges.