When finance director Stefan Rask and two friends started the Swiss oil brokerage business StarSupply Renewables, a traditional information technology (IT) infrastructure was not on the cards. ‘We had no IT expertise and having a full time IT person just wasn’t viable,’ he says, ‘so we decided that we wanted to buy in as much as possible as a service,’ and take advantage of the increasing availability of on-demand software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions.

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