SaaS Management Platform

ROI Calculator

Without a proper solution and real-time visibility into the organization’s SaaS ecosystem, IT, finance, and infosec teams waste time using spreadsheets when they could focus on initiatives that impact the organization's bottom line.
Our cost savings calculator helps you understand the ROI and SaaS Management value across many categories of an enterprise. It answers questions, such as what is LeanIX SaaS Intelligence value proposition? Is LeanIX SI worth the cost? What are the main areas where SaaS optimization is possible?
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Estimated annual savings on:
- ROI:?
ROI is calculated using the SaaS Intelligence platform price and total savings (risk adjusted by 30%).
- Total savings?
The sum of all of savings shown in the report, using SaaS spend per employee based on the industry5, and risk adjusted downward by 30% to account for best estimation.

Forecasting:

$ - 3-year savings projection ?
Calculated by current and future growth of SaaS spend per employee based on your industry, average growth of SaaS portfolio size and employee growth (risk adjusted by 30%).

We estimate in the next 3 years you can save - on SaaS, by optimizing costs on overpriced vendors, removing overlapping services, and rightsizing subscriptions

$ - 5-year savings projection ?
Calculated by current and future growth of SaaS spend per employee based on your industry, average growth of SaaS portfolio size and number of employees growth (risk adjusted by 30%).

We estimate in the next 5 years you can save $ - on SaaS, by optimizing costs on overpriced vendors, removing overlapping services, and rightsizing subscriptions.

- % Improved forecasting ?
Internally gathered data from LeanIX customers reporting average forecasting accuracy improvement (15-30%).

With tools for automating SaaS Management, you can achieve at least - % more accurate annual software forecasts thanks to more visibility into your SaaS portfolio, ongoing data on anticipated monthly and annual spend, SaaS spend by department, and application categorizations.

Transparency:

? Current SaaS portfolio size ?
Actual SaaS portfolio size estimate multiplied by the average increase of actual portfolio size reported by our customers (200%-300%).

LeanIX customers report their actual SaaS portfolio size is 200% to 300% bigger than previously expected. Entire SaaS portfolios are discovered using integrations to finance & CM, HR, SSO & CASB systems.

? Non-centrally managed
SaaS apps ?
Actual portfolio size calculated in this calculator minus your SaaS portfolio size estimate.

Automated SaaS mechanisms are the main foundation of SaaS management and help leaders complete accurate SaaS audits and uncover unused, excess, and overlapping software subscriptions.

? Ex-employees with access to
corporate SaaS apps ?
Calculated using average employee turnover (20% in the US2), the number of employees in your company, and percentage of ex-employees that keep access to your corporate data (25%1).

OneLogin research reports that 25%1 of ex-employees often retain access to corporate applications. This amounts to ? users that can immediately be identified and deprovisioned using LeanIX.

Time & salary cost savings:

? Time saved on renewals
management ?
Difference between average time spent on managing renewals using manual7 vs. automated LeanIX method, on 10% of actual SaaS portfolio size (valuable renewals).
$ - Salary saved on renewals
management ?
Calculated based on the median salary of the Category Buyer ($70,0003 in the US, $39 per hour) multiplied by time saved.

By using automated SaaS management methods, dedicated employees can discover SaaS vendors, application owners, assigned licenses, and usage data. These SaaS insights help streamline the process of negotiating renewals and creating renewal calendars.

? Time saved on employee
onboarding ?
Calculated annual difference between average time spent onboarding employees using manual7 vs. automated LeanIX methods (20%2 average employee turnover rate in the US).
$ - Salary saved on employee
onboarding ?
Calculated based on the median salary of the Help Desk Analyst ($50,0004 in the US, $28 per hour) multiplied by time saved.

LeanIX automates the process of onboarding by allowing new employees to request new SaaS applications in application catalogs, assign the applications their team uses, and track the adoption of assigned licenses with minimum impact on IT resources.

? Time saved on employee
offboarding ?
Calculated annual difference between average time spent offboarding employees using manual7 vs. automated LeanIX methods (20% average employee turnover rate in the US2).
$ - Salary saved on employee
offboarding ?
Calculated based on the median salary of the Help Desk Analyst ($50,0004 in the US, $28 per hour) multiplied by time saved.

SaaS Intelligence automates the process of uncovering which applications a person leaving a company is subscribed to and removes their licenses to ensure secure offboarding.

Priceless returns:

Improved continuous transformation

Improved continuous transformation

LeanIX provides granular and high-level analytics on SaaS applications and their utilization to determine which services employees use, the vendors providing the most value, and the features they require. This makes it easier to identify employee needs and implement the right tools for continuous transformation journeys.

Successful change management

Successful change management

Support change initiatives in your organization with LeanIX data. Recognize where employees and teams lack support and direct specific help where needed.

Advanced collaboration

Advanced collaboration

Improve business processes based on automated discovery and usage data. Giving employees similar tools and the ones they prefer to use can facilitate a more collaborative environment.

Enhanced SaaS ownership and accountability

Enhanced SaaS ownership and accountability

Automated discovery helps users build and uphold systems of a record with SaaS application owners. Managing renewals, contracts, and employee onboarding and offboarding can be done at significantly increased speeds. LeanIX promotes SaaS accountability and responsibility within organizations.

Elevated productivity

Elevated productivity

Consolidating vendors and licenses enables organizations to share more SaaS applications while minimizing time spent converting and matching documents or files between employees. Tracking usage helps users determine which applications employees prefer.

Increased employee satisfaction

Increased employee satisfaction

Streamline employee onboarding and help employees use the tools they need for their tasks. Built on usage and data insights derived from LeanIX platform analytics, it helps users discover, request, and gain approval for SaaS applications without circumventing approval channels.

Note: Though the results found above are based on LeanIX’s proprietary data and external industry sources, actual results are likely to vary once SaaS Intelligence is implemented. Please take into account that identified savings can be realized at the time of renewal or when contracts expire (depending on contract dates, this can sometimes take a year or more). A full ROI calculation is more complex and would include all SaaS services, exact spend on SaaS services, additional training, and various other factors. However, the calculations offered in the LeanIX SaaS Intelligence ROI Calculator demonstrate the significant savings realized by implementing SaaS Intelligence.

1 https://www.onelogin.com/press-center/press-releases/new-research-from-onelogin-finds-over-50-of-ex-employees-still-have-access-to-corporate-applications

2 https://data.bls.gov/

3 http://payscale.com/

4 http://payscale.com/

5 The State of Business SaaS Spend 2019 report by Cleanshelf (now LeanIX)

6 https://www.flexera.com/blog/industry-trends/it-spending-by-industry/

7 https://www.itassetmanagement.net/

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