Why Waaban
On-premises or cloud: which is right for your tribe?
Cloud software is cheaper to rent and safer to leave, but the data lives on a company's servers. On-premises software runs on your own computers, so you own it, controls it, and keeps the data in the building. For a sovereign government, that control is the point.
The cloud is convenient: someone else runs the server, and you start fast. The trade is that your records sit with an outside company, you pay per person every month, and you depend on a vendor you cannot fully control.
On-premises keeps the records where you can see them, works with the internet unplugged, and is bought once instead of rented forever.
Cloud software
Waaban
Where the data lives
On the vendor's servers
On your own computers
Works offline
No, needs the connection
Yes, with the internet unplugged
Who can read it
The vendor can
Only you
Cost shape
Monthly, per person, forever
One-time, on hardware you own
If you leave
The records stay with them
The records are yours to move