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Unlocking the Power of SaaS - Episode 5

Name: Unlocking the Power of SaaS - Episode 5
Uploaded: 2023-09-21T15:00:27+00:00
Duration: 44 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: Mike Austin (speaker) recounts an anecdote from his time at Microsoft about clients trying to implement SharePoint via third-party hosters, which…

21 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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Mike Austin (speaker) recounts an anecdote from his time at Microsoft about clients trying to implement SharePoint via third-party hosters, which resulted in deployments that the client organizations did not control or fully understand. He uses this example to explain why SaaS became popular: many SaaS apps can be deployed instantly by signing up and paying with a credit card, lowering barriers to adoption. The clip frames SaaS adoption as driven by ease-of-use and outsourcing of implementation/ops.

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When I was at Microsoft, I remember having conversations around SharePoint with organizations, marketing organizations at some of my clients, where they wanted to implement it, but it just didn't want to for a variety of reasons. And so they went out to hosters to implement SharePoint because they could just spend their marketing budget on it. Now all of a sudden, this organization, probably at the time was Lotus nodes, has got SharePoint in there. It's not controlled by it. They have no clue on what's going on. And this is back when we probably weren't even thinking about data privacy and things like that. Right. So, you know, that's why SaaS becomes so popular, because a lot of these SaaS applications, you can just drop onto a website, pop in your credit card, and away you go.