Workplace as a Service (short: WAAS) refers to the service provided by companies to other companies to rent rather than buy central elements of the digital workplace (e.g. laptops or other hardware, including software licenses). The main advantage lies in the predictable costs, because billing is usually per month and per employee.

Why this is interesting for a Chief Digital Officer (CDO)?
As part of external digitization, products and services are offered internally and externally in the form of a business service. This actually turns everything into a service. This is the term XAAS. X as variable placeholder, AAS in the form of as-a-service. Software is thus offered as SAAS: Software + AAS = SAAS.

See also (glossary Anything as a Service (XAAS)): Why this is interesting for a Chief Digital Officer (CDO)?
Cloud is one of the pillars of the digital revolution. Business and IT services can be provided very easliy by this. That is the reason why it is important to a Chief Digital Officers (CDO).

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