Which aspect of SaaS will alleviate much of the time and energy organizations spend on compliance (specifically baselines)? 

Answer options:

A. Maintenance
B. Licensing
C. Standardization
D. Development

C

With the entire software platform being controlled by the cloud provider, the standardization of configurations and versioning is done automatically for the cloud customer. This alleviates the customer`s need to track upgrades and releases for its own systems and development; instead, the onus is on the cloud provider. Although licensing is the responsibility of the cloud customer within SaaS, it does not have an impact on compliance requirements. Within SaaS, development and maintenance of the system are solely the responsibility of the cloud provider.