Why SaaS has a reality gap with business

My friend Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols thinks this is really something we signed up for when we agreed to use the service, and if we don't like it, we can always take our business and data somewhere else.

And that's just me, one guy in Indiana. What if I have plugged my business into a SaaS application in order to cut costs, and the provider decides to on the spur of the moment change the application's interface? Who's going to pay for the time lost in retraining everyone on the new features? Or even just the time lost as my employees kibbutz for a morning to readjust to the smaller changes? The service provider? Hardly.

Real force in the business world

If SaaS is going to be a real force in the business world, at the time openness and choice needs to be part of all of the service, not just the data.

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