Corey I Want My SaaS Apps, and I Want Them Now! (Passwords Suck!)

September 30, 2013 Off By David

Grazed from Centrify. Author: Corey Williams.

I am a typical enterprise knowledge worker. I extensively use Microsoft Office. I switched from a Windows PC to a MacBook a few years ago. But during these past couple of years, either I, my department or my enterprise has adopted a TON of SaaS apps that now fit into my daily workflow.

As I stop and evaluate the consequences of this phenomenon, I am stunned at how screwed up and brittle my daily workflow has become. But before I go into what some of these issues are, let me paint a picture of my typical SaaS app usage:

For file sharing and syncing, I use both Box and Dropbox
For CRM and customer support, I use Salesforce, but I also use Dunn and Bradstreet, RainKing, Data.com and others
For email, we recently moved to Office 365…

For collaboration and online meetings, I use Lync, Webex, GoToMeeting, On24, Zoom
For note taking, I use Evernote
For professional networking and recruiting, I use LinkedIn
For expense management and travel, I use Concur and Tripit, but I also log into dozens of travel, hotel, airline and frequent flier sites
For payroll, I log into ADP
For HR and benefits, I log into MyBenefits, Anthem/Bluecross, and every year we seem to change health insurance providers…

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