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Consolidated Financial Statement Details (Components of Prepaid Expenses and Other Assets) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands | 3 Months Ended |
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Mar. 31, 2025 | Mar. 31, 2024 | Dec. 31, 2024
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract] |  |  |  |  |
Costs of obtaining contracts | [1],[2] | $ 56,945 |  |  | $ 57,911
Prepaid software maintenance and subscriptions, current and long-term | [3] | 36,321 |  |  | 36,277
Implementation costs for cloud computing arrangements | [4],[5] | 10,321 |  |  | 10,450
Unbilled accounts receivable |  | 8,699 |  |  | 7,067
Prepaid insurance |  | 5,754 |  |  | 3,027
Taxes, prepaid and receivable |  | 5,434 |  |  | 4,257
Investment in equity securities |  | 4,943 | [6] |  | 4,943
Derivative instruments |  | 3,517 |  |  | 10,550
Other assets |  | 13,518 |  |  | 14,026
Total prepaid expenses and other assets |  | 145,452 |  |  | 148,508
Less: Long-term portion |  | 57,270 |  |  | 67,221
Prepaid expenses and other current assets |  | 88,182 |  |  | 81,287
Amortization expense from costs of obtaining contracts |  | 5,000 |  | $ 4,800 |
Current portion of costs of obtaining contracts |  | 18,400 |  |  | 18,400
Prepaid software maintenance and subscriptions, current |  | 34,700 |  |  | 34,000
Implementation costs for cloud computing arrangements, accumulated amortization |  | $ 11,400 |  |  | $ 10,600
[1] | Amortization expense from costs of obtaining contracts was $5.0 million and $4.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
[2] | The current portion of costs of obtaining contracts as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 was $18.4 million and $18.4 million, respectively.
[3] | The current portion of prepaid software maintenance and subscriptions as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 was $34.7 million and $34.0 million, respectively.
[4] | Amortization expense from capitalized cloud computing implementation costs was insignificant for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024. Accumulated amortization for these costs was $11.4 million and $10.6 million as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.
[5] | These costs primarily relate to the multi-year implementations of our global enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management systems and other cloud-based systems.
[6] | Represents a strategic investment that did not result in Blackbaud having significant influence over the investee.

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