In today’s distributed environment, software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications have given organizations greater flexibility to support corporate employees and contractors across the world. Some of the most notable SaaS application suites currently include communication (email delivery, chat platforms), productivity (documents, spreadsheets), and collaboration (online storage). By 2025, Gartner predicts that 85% of enterprises will run their businesses with a cloud-first principle — with SaaS as the preferred vehicle for access management deployments.
While SaaS applications allow organizations to remain more agile, however, the shift to the cloud comes with associated security and performance risks, especially for organizations that are juggling multiple point solutions designed to operate independently of each other. Tasked with implementing and managing dozens, if not hundreds, of these applications, security, networking, and IT teams are often strapped for time, struggle to gain visibility across their entire organization, and wrestle with security and connectivity gaps left by services that are not inherently designed to work together.