{"id":29666,"date":"2017-05-19T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/4055244"},"modified":"2017-05-19T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T17:00:00","slug":"mastering-your-saas-provider-relationship-cloudexpo-saas-cloud-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/mastering-your-saas-provider-relationship-cloudexpo-saas-cloud-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastering Your SaaS Provider Relationship | @CloudExpo #SaaS #Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this modern world of IT, you&#8217;ve probably got some new colleagues in your life-namely, the cloud and SaaS providers who now hold your infrastructure in their hands.<\/p>\n<p>These business relationships-yes, they&#8217;re technology-based, but cloud and SaaS are business models-will become as important to your IT team and your company as the hardware and software you used to install. Once you&#8217;ve adopted SaaS, or inherited SaaS, it&#8217;s on you to avoid price hikes, licensing issues and app or provider sprawl. Budgeting for these apps, which means understanding their pricing models, is also likely in IT&#8217;s hands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/4055244\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this modern world of IT, you&#8217;ve probably got some new colleagues in your life-namely, the cloud and SaaS providers who now hold your infrastructure in their hands.<\/p>\n<p>These business relationships-yes, they&#8217;re technology-based, but cloud and SaaS are b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29667,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29666\/revisions\/29667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}