Published: 24 September 2019
Summary
Organizations continue to adopt SaaS in a siloed and ad hoc fashion. This causes inefficiency in usage and management, as well as increased security risks. This research provides a SaaS adoption framework that application technical professionals can leverage to successfully adopt SaaS at scale.
Included in Full Research
- Prework: Create a SaaS Inventory for Existing SaaS Solutions
- Step 1: Define Adoption Approach
- Adoption Approach
- Assessing SaaS Adoption Risk Tolerance
- Introduce Adoption Policies and Procedures
- Evaluate SaaS Based on Risk Tiers
- Always Have an Exit Strategy
- Step 2: Evaluate and Assess
- Identity
- Security
- Operational Requirements
- Network and Performance
- Integration
- Disaster Recovery and High Availability
- Compliance
- Customizations
- Step 3: Implement With Best Practices
- Identity
- Security
- Operational Requirements
- Monitoring
- Network and Performance
- Integration
- Disaster Recovery and High Availability
- Compliance
- Customizations
- Step 4: Support Post Launch
- Administration and Support
- Organizational Structure and Processes
- Change Management