India, Dec. 31 -- Unapproved, unsanctioned rogue technology has been sneaking its way onto the enterprise infrastructure for decades now with PCs, spreadsheet applications on floppy disks, Palm Pilots, and iPhones. Eventually all these technologies got ingested by IT departments, which took control of the oversight of all of these. Yet, the introduction of line-of-business cloud services, purchased by business managers for their individual departments, is a newer iteration of the old practice.

Unsanctioned by IT, these kinds of SaaS or PaaS are the shortcuts that individual business managers are using to get things done without going through the slow, painstaking process of requisitioning the technology through the proper channels. They ...