@GeorgeReese Approval workflows are a way to contain the sprawl while developing the appropriate operational framework to manage the cloud.

@GeorgeReese A lot of customers are not equipped yet to have all those controls in place (from an organizational standpoint).

@GeorgeReese People consuming cloud always ask for the biggest and the best you have in the service catalog. Top issue with our clients.

@GeorgeReese You can use it as a form of approval workflow. And our clients ask for that all the time.

@GeorgeReese I respectfully disagree. Top request from our clients is cloud management integration with helpdesk/ticketing system.

@GeorgeReese with catalog object sprawl and inability to accurately forecast resource consumption.

@GeorgeReese Not all scenarios work well with unrestricted self-service provisioning. We have clients that lost control of infra quickly

@GeorgeReese Define “approvals” please.

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