What challenges have you recently encountered in managing the increasing number of SaaS vendors within your organization? And how did you handle it?
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1) We require heavy risk and architecture governance reviews prior to procurement. 2) Monitoring/observability for cost and security. 3) We've established governance policies and require application owners (in the business) sign-off on their compliance. ...Still it is hard.
hi Bob,<br>I hope you don't mind if I reach out with a direction question. We are trying to solve a similar challenge and I wonder if you could share how tackled ownership of the goverence process ? We are seeing resistance between various goverance areas (Enterprise Architecture, Services Operations etc) to take ownership for software procurement requests and implementation.
Utilize a tool like sky high networks to give you some insight into what cloud solutions are being used
In our company, each SaaS has to run through the process for purchasing software including a due diligence by its architecture and security even if the SaaS is used for free. Each SaaS must be added to the EAM-repository. We use services (also SaaS) that support running the due diligence by providing information such as for example the vulnerability of a SaaS.
hi Christian<br>I hope you don't mind if I reach out with a direction question. We are trying to solve a similar challenge and I wonder if you could share how tackled ownership of the goverence process ? We are seeing resistance between various goverance areas (Enterprise Architecture, Services Operations etc) to take ownership for software procurement requests and implementation.
Overlapping and Redundant Software: Identified redundancies by analyzing the functionality and usage of existing SaaS tools and later consolidated them to save costs and reduce complexity.