There are some problems that are just easier to offboard, even for huge companies. Very few companies at any level run their own email, LDAP, even HR packages t

There are some problems that are just easier to offboard, even for huge companies. Very few companies at any level run their own email, LDAP, even HR packages these days. That's all SaaS now. But there are other problems that are just easier to outsource too. Who runs a ticketing system inhouse these days? Who runs chat services like slack inhouse? SaaS is entrenched and not going anywhere. The problem is what people think companies will pay for and how much. I will happily pay for a service to manage a deploy pipeline but one of the ones I talked to recently was going to charge $80 per POD in our line cluster. That would have easily made them a 6 figure SaaS for us which isn't going to fly, meanwhile we pay for somebody to host our monitoring dashboards because it's only $1k or so total a month.