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Jessica Kerr discusses the complexities involved in implementing a SaaS product within an organization. She highlights challenges such as budget approvals, security reviews, GDPR compliance, data integration with pre-existing systems, and the importance of ensuring employees utilize the new software.

How hard can it be to buy software?

Fantastic article of the author’s experience and a story I’ve experienced time and time again. It’s a good, common story for the more technically focused out there to consider and learn from.
Original article is here: <a href="https://jessitron.com/2024/11/09/how-hard-can-it-be-to-buy-software/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://jessitron.com/2024/11/09/how-hard-can-it-be-to-buy-software/</a>
(this page’s link leads to a newsletter archive page with a link to the article. I love newsletters, but come on - take us to the original from here.)

Implementing SaaS means tackling budget, security, GDPR, data integration, and ensuring adoption, not that easy