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Probably has more to do with responsibility outsourcing: if SaaS has security breach AND they tell in the contract that they’re secure, then you’re not responsible. Sure, there may be reputational damage for you, but it’s a gamble with good odds in most cases.

Storing lots of legal data doesn’t seem to be one of these cases though.

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I see profits and outsourcing.

Selling an on-premise service requires customer support, engineering, and duplication of effort if you’re pushing to the cloud as well. Then you get the temptations and lock in of cloud-only tooling and an army of certified consultant drones whose resumes really really need time on AWS-doc-solution-2035, so the on premise becomes a constant weight on management.

SaaS and the cloud is great for some things some of the time, but often you’re just staring at the marketing playbook of MS or Amazon come to life like a golem.

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