The move heightens competitiveness in the fast growing market for SaaS analytics. And it highlights the marked improvements that have come in the past year, thanks in large part due to the innovations made by SaaS providers.
I wonder if IT is getting tired of being seen as the fuddy-duddy of the enterprise. There's plenty of advice out there about the need for uptight IT departments to lighten up and give business users more freedom to select technology solutions they need to do their jobs. Like the kid who's denied permission to ride a skateboard and goes ahead and does it on the sly -- either buying his own board or using a friend's -- some business users will use unsanctioned hardware and/or software.
Still, Gartner found that most companies still do not have policies governing the evaluation and use of SaaS with only 39 percent of respondents indicating that such a policy or process exists, up just 1 percent from 38 percent in 2008.
