Use Case

SaaS Management

SaaS adoption is on the rise and not slowing down anytime soon. SaaS applications enhance productivity, scalability, and corporate agility. However, a sprawling SaaS portfolio also creates complexity for IT, security, compliance, finance, and procurement teams. SaaS Management includes all the practices necessary to help your business grow with best-in-class SaaS while managing the costs and risks.

The LeanIX SaaS Management Platform (SMP) will help your business optimize the cost and productivity of your SaaS investments so you can focus on innovating.

Turn insights into actions with
LeanIX SMP

Gain 100% visibility into your SaaS landscape

Easily manage vendor contracts to optimize SaaS spend

Ensure compliance and mitigate risks across your SaaS portfolio

Automatically discover your entire SaaS portfolio

Integrate with all the key enterprise systems such as SSO, financial, expense management, contract management, cloud access security
Obtain an up-to-date overview of each discovered SaaS application, incl. members, usage, invoices, and contracts
Be automatically alerted when new applications are added
Stay on top of your SaaS portfolio and add accountability by identifying business owners of each application

Optimize SaaS usage, spend, and productivity

Track application usage patterns and identify underutilized purchases
Make strategic decisions about whether to improve adoption or decrease the number of licenses
Determine ROI on the most costly applications (e.g. Office 365, Salesforce, Workday, etc.)
Rationalize SaaS contracts without any negative impact on the business outcome

Plan and develop an effective renewal process

Develop and establish an internal process, as well as business ownership for newly discovered SaaS applications
Implement a process for cross-departmental license recycling, and only deploy or upgrade new applications or upgrade licenses when needed
Proactively prepare for contract re-negotiations with renewal calendar and custom alerts
Negotiate better deals with detailed insights into product usage

Establish SaaS security and governance

Document the security posture to track and monitor that SaaS applications comply with your organization's policies
Ensure application compliance with CCPA, GDPR, ISO 27001, PCI, and SOC2
Identify and rationalize non-compliant SaaS applications that pose a security risk

Achieve a 10X ROI on your SMP investment

Tame your SaaS portfolio, minimize costs, ensure compliance, and enhance productivity with LeanIX SMP

Up to 50%

Increase in visibility of shadow-apps

Up to 30%

Reduction in YoY SaaS spend

Up to 30%

Increase in capex forecast accuracy

10X

Return on SMP investment

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SaaS management solutions bring real-time visibility into an organization’s SaaS ecosystem. This enables IT, finance, and InfoSec teams to proactively focus on initiatives that impact their company’s bottom line. Identify potential savings in your SaaS portfolio.

White Paper

How to Enable Business-Led IT through SaaS Management

Enabling business-led IT with SaaS management allows the business to maximize the value of SaaS while minimizing the risks.

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Report

SaaS Management Survey 2021

Topics range from the share of SaaS in IT landscapes, how SaaS is purchased, SaaS-related challenges facing EAs, and how SaaS is managed and by which teams/departments.

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White Paper

The SaaS Management Buyer's Guide

Evaluate what matters most within a SaaS management platform and learn about success practices to boost the ROI of your SaaS portfolio.

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eBook

SaaS Management - The definitive guide for IT and finance leaders

This eBook is a comprehensive guide to SaaS management containing inspiring industry voices, practical advice, deep insights, and sound knowledge on this critical field of IT management.

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Poster

6 Steps to Optimize SaaS Productivity and Security

A poster for ensuring non-centrally managed IT is always well-managed from a cost, security, and compliance standpoint to drive efficiency and productivity.

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