{"id":10602,"date":"2011-06-28T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devweb.rjrinnovations.com\/saas-is-changing-the-delivery-model-for-it-2\/"},"modified":"2011-06-28T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T20:20:00","slug":"saas-is-changing-the-delivery-model-for-it-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjrinnovations.com\/fr\/saas-is-changing-the-delivery-model-for-it-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SaaS is changing the delivery model for IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here at BMC something like 35% of our business applications are now  consumed from SaaS vendors. Critical functions such as Sales, Marketing  and HR all benefit from using state-of-the-art solutions that are  hosted, managed and constantly improved by a third party. This genuinely  has led to the promised gains in efficiency and reductions in cost for  IT &#8211; but what has it meant for how we plan, deploy and monitor the  health and effectiveness of those applications?\u00a0 <\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 8pt; min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<p>IT has to respond to an environment where:<\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 8pt; min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>The  requirements of the critical systems the company uses are almost  exclusively criteria set by the consuming business function.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Just  to add extra excitement &#8211; the above criteria shift quickly and  regularly as the business evolves and changes in response to the market  is serves.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The  evaluation and selection of application vendors is driven largely by  the business function \u2013 where IT\u2019s input is now but one part of a  balanced assessment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Someone else<\/i> owns the systems and infrastructure on which these applications will reside.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Someone else<\/i> owns the connectivity between your organization and those critical business applications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Someone else<\/i> is responsible for the security and integrity of business critical information that you once owned and protected.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Processes  for managing and delivering SaaS applications must co-exist with more  traditional approaches to managing the infrastructure you still own.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>You, as the organizations IT department, are still the single point of contact for all of the above.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"height: 8pt; min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<p><i>Tricky<\/i>\u2026  as Douglas Adam\u2019s fictional all knowing computer\u00a0 \u2018Deep Thought\u2019 once  responded \u2013 but highly achievable, provided IT views itself more as a  broker and manager of services \u2013 and reviews its skills, processes and  systems accordingly.<\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 8pt; min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt;\">Next time\u2026<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;\">We\u2019ll focus in on three of the promises of SaaS and practical things IT can do to help ensure that those promises are kept.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;\">By: Chris Rixon<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at BMC something like 35% of our business applications are now consumed from SaaS vendors. 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