Legal Perspective from James Gill, Esq.
SaaS and cloud-based applications have changed what organizations need to consider when planning for software continuity. Traditional source code escrow may provide access to source code, but SaaS applications can also depend on cloud infrastructure, databases, third-party services, configuration information, deployment processes, and other components necessary to keep an application operational.
Technology attorney James Gill, Partner at Lewis Silkin LLP, provides a useful legal perspective on these issues in the article, “Software Escrow: Why Bother, and What About SaaS and Escrow?”
The article discusses the purpose of software escrow, common release scenarios, and some of the additional considerations that arise when software is provided through a SaaS model.
Read the article: Software Escrow: Why Bother, and What About SaaS and Escrow?
About the Author: James Gill is a Partner at Lewis Silkin LLP. View James Gill’s professional profile.
InnovaSafe provides these links as educational resources for organizations evaluating software and SaaS escrow and business continuity strategies. The linked article is authored and published by Lewis Silkin LLP. Inclusion of the article does not constitute an endorsement of InnovaSafe or its services by James Gill or Lewis Silkin LLP.