Self-hosting is a popular deployment model for security conscious software buyers, especially large enterprises in regulated industries. But it is challenging for software vendors to support, and as a result is expensive for customers. One solution to this challenge is vendor deployment management, in which the vendor has full access

Supporting customer-hosted software deployments is painful. But lots of enterprises want to self-host – so vendors support it to access the most valuable customers. I experienced this pain first-hand as co-founder of Context.ai, building a conversation analytics product. Large enterprise customers wanted to deploy our product into their own private