Companies fret as costs soar for software subscriptions (2019)

Re:Companies fret as costs soar for software subscriptions (... by jjoonathan on Thursday March 05, 2020 @02:06PM (#22496879)

Buying a $5/mo subscription by accident, forgetting about it for years, and getting 0 value in return is cheaper than training on a formal purchase system, filling out a ROI sheet, and ping-ponging it back and forth in a few meetings before "responsibly" deciding not to buy.

Giving individual contributors purchase authority and then supervising spend -- the model implemented in every major cloud -- is a much better compromise, because it lets management prioritize where they spend ROI calculation cycles which are not free. Very not free!

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Re:Companies fret as costs soar for software subscriptions (... by gentleman11 on Thursday March 05, 2020 @02:25PM (#22497109)

What if that SAAS is data mining you though and your company secrets are leaking out? Or claiming some sort of ownership over content you post within it? I don’t know anyone who reads the privacy policies and TOS of those apps but tech companies just let their teams use what they like.

It’s hard to find a good SAAS privacy policy actually, and they target businesses who are theoretically more “serious” than individuals

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