No folks, I am not a heretic. But the continuing evolution of technology begs the question of whether the IT-facilities divide of the past will simply disappear. At companies that have successfully managed to integrate IT and facilities, the facilities side seems to fade somewhat as IT refocuses as a purchaser of services rather than a provider of services. For sure, the “XaaS” (pronounced “zass” for anything and everything as a service) mentality is taking over a large part of the IT world.
IT is already fully enveloped in acronymns such as SaaS—software as a service, PaaS—platform as a service, IaaS—infrastructure as a service, and NaaS—network as a service describing specific service types. Further, these XaaS offerings are rapidly maturing and combining to form enhanced offerings like SPI that merge SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS into a single service offering.