SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS: Evaluating Cloud Service Agreement Models, Negotiating Key Terms, Minimizing Contract Disputes
Course Details
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On-Demand
- signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level
- work Practice Area
Commercial Law
- event Date
Tuesday, June 28, 2022
- schedule Time
1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT
- timer Program Length
90 minutes
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This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.
This CLE course will guide business and technology counsel in drafting contracts for cloud computing services customers. The program will focus on the key terms in these contracts and discuss how they differ from traditional software license terms. The panel will address some of the most common mistakes attorneys make in cloud computing contracts.
Ms. Polera is an experienced negotiator for B2B enterprise digital transformation deals. Her practice also involves end-to-end counseling on privacy, data security, and data protection terms, from drafting Microsoft’s core standard data protection terms to negotiating custom commitments with our most strategic enterprise customers. Having held prior roles at Microsoft in both finance and field sales, Ms. Polera also has a keen understanding of the competitive landscape in SaaS/PaaS/IaaS and traditional software.
Mr. Overly focuses his practice on drafting and negotiating technology related agreements, software licenses, hardware acquisition, development, disaster recovery, outsourcing agreements, information security agreements, e-commerce agreements, and technology use policies. He counsels clients in the areas of technology acquisition, information security, electronic commerce, and on-line law. He is the co-author of A Guide to IT Contracting: Checklists, Tools and Techniques (CRC Press, 2012).
Our panel will also outline the three key cloud computing models: Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). They will focus on SaaS, but will explain the issues at stake in all three and discuss how they differ and how they're similar.
The program will focus on:
- Data privacy and security
- Service levels and SLAs
- Other performance objectives
- Warranties
- Termination and transition assistance
- Indemnities re IP, data breach, and other issues
- Limits of liability
- Data ownership and control
Listen as our expert panel explains all these issues and more, along with best practices for drafting agreements for each model.
- Explanation of different cloud computing models (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS) and how they impact contracts
- Key provisions in cloud computing services agreements: particularly the provisions listed above
- Best practices to mitigate risk and speed negotiations
The panel will review these and other critical issues:
- Learn the key clauses found in cloud computing agreements
- Discover some of the traps for the unwary and learn to avoid typical mistakes
- Pick up strategies for mitigating risks and reducing negotiation time
- Preview the most commonly disputed risks arising during contract negotiations, along with strategies for managing them
