[whurley23]

To be fair, re-creating the SaaS solution that simply replicates the features they see can often be done fairly simply. However, there are generally a whole lot of things under the surface. Then there is the whole hosting and maintaining the system, which is its own problem.

[lazide]

Also, management doesn’t have time to fully understand it, which means they need at least one employee who does. And that employee now has leverage.