Software as a Service (SaaS) is becoming an important concept for large organisations appealing to CxOs and business users for a variety of reasons. Recent discussions have show that there are quite a few barriers slowing down the adoption of the idea and that it’s not necessarily the right thing for all organisations anyway.
We’ve identified one particular barrier, which seems to me to have the potential to slow down SaaS adoption considerably: there are powerful stakeholders, who are loosing out in the process. Many employees, decision makers, and most notably large IT service providers and system integrators have reason not to like SaaS, as it will threaten their jobs and revenues.