Ask a SaaS provider directly who owns the data a firm enters into their platform, and the honest answer is usually buried in a lengthy terms of service document, not a simple sentence. That complexity itself is worth paying attention to.
Why this question is harder to answer than it should be
Most SaaS agreements distinguish between the firm's legal ownership of its own data and the provider's practical control over the infrastructure that data lives on. In practice, "you own it" and "you control it" are not the same thing when the data physically sits on someone else's servers, under someone else's operational policies.
What this means in a real scenario
If a firm decides to leave a SaaS platform, extracting years of client and financial data in a usable format is not always straightforward, and depends entirely on what export capability the provider chose to offer.
Why dedicated infrastructure removes the ambiguity
When a platform is deployed on a firm's own server, this question has a simple, complete answer: the firm owns the data because it's sitting on infrastructure the firm itself controls, with nobody else's policies determining access to it. This is precisely why Rukn is deployed as a domain-locked installation rather than a shared SaaS product.
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