Cloud Software is far from a sliver bullet. It is not a one-size-fits-all solution. The adoption of Cloud has less do to with its benefits but vendors’ desire to make money. 

Software vendors love to tout the benefits of cloud software. They will tell you that it offers more flexibility, is cheaper, requires less configuration, and is safer than traditional on-prem software.

That is not always true.

The Cloud provides vendors with multi-year commitments from customers with difficulty moving to an alternative platform. These multiyear commitments provide tremendous revenue for Cloud vendors.

Taft partner Marcus Harris discusses some of the issues with SAAS software and cloud computing.