Keeping control of SaaS costs | Computer Weekly
Summary
Flexera recommends that IT asset management (ITAM) professionals should increase their collaboration with FinOps teams as the use and cost of SaaS and cloud eclipse that of on-premise software. For instance, if an application team is driving towards a quick product launch, Leong says the business may be willing to incur high initial cloud costs to reduce time to market. In the corporate world, IT security and governance policies will often treat password sharing as a serious infringement due to the data loss and cyber attack risks associated with such behaviour. The analyst firm also recommends that the head of finance and other executive leaders should be given reports that align cloud costs to business metrics so they can make informed decisions. • Enterprise architect specialist LeanIX expanded its portfolio through the purchase of SaaS management startup Cleanshelf and the introduction of a Microservice Intelligence tool.