IT Finance Connection Podcast: SaaS: Faster Change, Deeper IT Involvement
IT Finance Connection had an interesting podcast with Ariel Kelman, Salesforce.com’s senior director of platform product marketing.
Ariel made a number of interesting points in the podcast:
- SaaS is good for companies and IT organizations that want to increase focus from infrastructure to innovation.
- IT organizations should consider SaaS applications just like other applications and should fit into the existing IT governance processes such as change management control.
- SaaS applications are easier to administer, customize, integrate. (This is an interesting point as customization and integration are often cited as the top concerns for not adopting SaaS.)
- IT organizations should involve business units early in the deployment process. (In theory, this is not all that different from on-premise apps.)
- With platforms such as Force.com, IT organizations and business owners can build applications in real-time together. (rapid prototyping.)
- According to Gartner, IT organizations spent 80% of their time on infrastructure and maintenance, and only 20% on innovation.
Definitely worth spending 15 minutes to listen to this.
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