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> Asking them to "Install" stuff is great if they're nostalgic geeks like us ; but real people learned long ago that anything asking the right to "install" on t
by MattGaiser 5y ago
> Asking them to "Install" stuff is great if they're nostalgic geeks like us ; but real people learned long ago that anything asking the right to "install" on their computer is malware from a shaddy gambling website.
Or just the limitations of permissions. A business team can adopt a SaaS unilaterally. Anything installed involves IT.
- mjevans 5y agoThis is why the runtime libraries __have__ to be shipped by the OS vendor. It isn't good enough that Windows (or OSX for that matter) includes only stuff for it's OS. It should include a standard that is compatible with every other major platform too. We don't even really get that with Electron either; all of those apps are 'fat' in that they ship the entire standard library for doing anything with 'Hello World'.
- mywittyname 5y ago> A business team can adopt a SaaS unilaterally. Anything installed involves IT. That's changing with SSO. Security and compliance teams are cracking down on rogue BUs buying SaaS products willy-nilly.
- marcosdumay 5y agoOk, I guess "BU" here means "business unity" (I can't remember ever seeing that term), but I can't imagine what "SSO" could be that would crack-down on people signing on internet services.
- boojums 5y agoBusiness Unit and Single Sign On most likely
- marcosdumay 5y agoYeah, Single Sign On is an acronym I know, but can't do anything like the GP's claim.
- phtrivier 5y agoI guess the claim is that, if you want your little team in MegaCorp to use a little Sass app, you're going to have to either : - create user accounts at LittleApp, with your personal email, and have to remember a password. Then, you're potentially giving sensitive corporate info to the SaaS app, with your personal email, and you risk getting fired for that. Plus,new passwords are annoying ! - so you try integrating with the SSO solution from your MegaCorp, which means you have to talk to IT. Which means: A/ you're going to have to wait because they're busy telling people to switch it off an on again ; B/ they're now in a position to exert power over a decision you would like to make. Politics will ensue.
- marcosdumay 5y agoOh, ok, that makes sense. But there are a couple of fixes. You create the account with your corporate email. You just need the password. And that part: you're potentially giving sensitive corporate info to the SaaS app, with your personal email, and you risk getting fired for that If that one part is real, than SSO isn't adding any power to you (or to the DSO anyway). If it isn't, then the only thing SSO changes is the password one.
- MattGaiser 5y agoWhy can’t users just sign up with email instead?