Today’s rapidly expanding array of cloud-based applications are quickly delivering
quantifiable business benefits, as three years of THINKstrategies Best of SaaS Showplace Awards have clearly proven. However, it is also becoming clear that poorly managed deployment of today’s cloud alternatives can generate needless costs that must be better contained to ensure they don’t overshadow the potential benefits. A major driver of unanticipated costs is the unauthorized adoption of cloud services.
Avoiding the Cloud's Dark Shadow: Needless Costs
Posted by: Jeffrey M. Kaplan June 8, 2012 05:00 AMToday’s rapidly expanding array of cloud-based applications are quickly delivering
quantifiable business benefits, as three years of THINKstrategies Best of SaaS Showplace Awards have clearly proven. However, it is also becoming clear that poorly managed deployment of today’s cloud alternatives can generate needless costs that must be better contained to ensure they don’t overshadow the potential benefits. A major driver of unanticipated costs is the unauthorized adoption of cloud services.