SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS: Evaluating Cloud Service Agreement Models, Negotiating Key Terms, Minimizing Contract Disputes

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, sovereignty, compliance, and security
• Service levels, SLAs, AI contract review, other performance objectives
• Warranties, indemnities re IP, data breach, and other issues
• Termination and transition assistance
• Limits of liability, carveouts, risk mitigation
• Data ownership and control, CLOUD Act, antitrust. 

Listen as our expert panel explains all these issues and more, along with best practices for drafting agreements for each model.

I. Explanation of different cloud computing models (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS) and how they impact contracts

II. Key provisions in cloud computing services agreements

III. 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