🔗 Shadow IT

🔗 Technology 🔗 Computing 🔗 Computing/Computer hardware 🔗 Business 🔗 Computing/Software

In big organizations, shadow IT refers to information technology (IT) systems deployed by departments other than the central IT department, to work around the shortcomings of the central information systems.

Shadow IT systems are an important source of innovation, and shadow systems may become prototypes for future central IT solutions.