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From an Enterprise perspective (and I'm in the belly of the fortune 50 beast at a division level ~10bn/yr mfg) SaaS discussions internally aren't really about data security -- they're about lock in and leverage by the vendor. For anything of a certain level of criticality SaaS is just too much vendor leverage. Enterprise software licensing is a vicious lawyer on lawyer battleground with deeply unethical behavior and brinksmanship regularly displayed on both sides. If you think I want to give any of those vendors the possession of my server and data during a dispute, you're nuts. The enterprise SaaS model seems fundamentally flawed.


The challenge is to provide more value than the alternative. Enterprise SaaS works where it makes sense, and it doesn't where it doesn't.


On the other hand some users/departments within enterprises see SaaS as a way to escape the IT department lock-in.




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