If you’re ancient like me, you probably remember Lotus Notes. The leading groupware platform of the last millennium, it not only provided corporate email and pre-Slack communications, it also empowered anyone in the organization to build and publish mini-web sites for anyone to use.
It didn’t take long for this whole employee empowerment train to go off the rails. Suddenly, Madge in accounting could slap up a site that exposed private corporate data—with the IT organization none the wiser. No testing, no compliance, no oversight at all.