Are you considering the need to better manage SaaS at your company? If you’re reading this post, there’s a good chance you are.
Cloud apps cause frustration to many people in an organization for a myriad of reasons.Today, we’ll take a quick look at 7 reasons you need a SaaS optimization tool.
Whether you’re simply exploring the need for this kind of tool or justifying purchasing one, these use cases should help you.
In this ebook, we explore the need to discover and cut rapidly-growing cloud software expenses.
The ebook includes the current state of shadow IT and the high prevalence of “shelfware” – software that’s paid for but never used. Cloud apps can be especially hard to find, so we describe manual and automated methods to find the software. Then, we then discuss the costs you should expect to be able to cut and how to cut them.
If you work in security or compliance, prepare yourself to have a new perspective on cloud software, shadow IT, and the risks associated with them.
Many procurement leaders feel ambivalent about cloud software; it’s certainly useful, but after all, signing up for cloud apps has been a highly effective way to bypass procurement in the 2010’s.
But now we’re seeing a reaction to unmitigated SaaS expansion. Whether it’s ironic or poetic justice, specialized SaaS apps can now be used to discover, organize, and control the rampant spread of other SaaS apps.
If you’re new here, this post was made in response to interest in the many types of cost savings available in cloud spend.
Closing out our two-part series (part 1 covered discovering and cutting costs), we’re covering renewals and preventing costs using Alpin.
