Employees who go off the reservation to acquire software outside official channels can provoke consternation and alarm in CIOs. But when the digital dust settles, IT organizations and the staff they serve often emerge from these events in a stronger relationship and with improved management.
Cloud-based application delivery and subscription business models from vendors create the perfect conditions for the natives to run wild — and for IT to react proportionally. When applications are provisioned outside official channels, the company’s security risks can increase, application integration opportunities are overlooked, siloed data diminishes analytics opportunities, the company can’t leverage pricing bargains for volume cloud use and tax benefits from the operating expenditures (OPEX) are missed because the payments aren’t rolled up into company financials.
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