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Modern enterprises need software review boards to combat ungoverned SaaS purchasing, which can lead to shadow IT, SaaS sprawl, and security risks. 🔐 A software review board is a committee of cross-functional team members – including IT, Procurement, Software Asset Management, Security, and Legal – organized to vet new software before the business purchases it. These boards ensure alignment with business needs, cost approval, favorable contract terms, and compliance with security standards. Learn 4 key reasons you need a software review board: https://lnkd.in/gp8eA2bu

Zylo has been evaluated and recognized as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SaaS Management Platforms and placed highest for Ability to Execute and furthest for Completeness of Vision. We believe this report validates the urgency of developing an effective SaaS Management strategy to address the waste and risk hiding in your software stack. We are honored to be recognized as a leader in what we see as a mission-critical category. Access a copy of this essential report today 👇 https://lnkd.in/gjnAcmMA

Have you registered for our webinar, Strategic Software Procurement: Your Crawl, Walk, Run Roadmap?! You still have time! 📣 Join us this afternoon for our first session, and we'll be holding it again tomorrow if you can't make it! Don't miss this opportunity to learn how to save your business money by optimizing your software purchasing and renewals: https://lnkd.in/dtvjJtVa

Zylo has been evaluated and recognized as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SaaS Management Platforms and placed highest for Ability to Execute and furthest to the right for Completeness of Vision! We believe this report validates the urgency of developing an effective SaaS Management strategy to address the waste and risk hiding in your software stack. We are honored to be recognized as a Leader in what we feel is a mission-critical category. Make sure you're following us so that you can get access to the report once it's available!

What exactly is FinOps, and how does it intersect with SaaS? 🤔 Understanding this connection becomes more vital as more organizations rely on SaaS to meet their operational needs. FinOps fosters a collaborative environment, bringing together engineering, finance, technology, and business teams to form a unit that makes informed, data-driven decisions regarding cloud expenditures. We dove into the essence of FinOps and its relationship with SaaS Management in our newest blog here: https://lnkd.in/dQpZwWHy

Are you wondering how you can set up and maintain a SaaS system of record? Discovery and onboarding are critical to begin managing SaaS. On #SaaSMeAnything, Ben Pippenger shared the checklist you need to follow to onboard your apps and ensure the key data is brought in. The data you need to bring in includes: ✅ Your owners, AKA the individuals who support the management of each app ✅ Your app metadata ✅ Order forms and contracts ✅ Usage data For more, check out the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/dAQwQ3FG

Many #SAM pros have found that the process of finding expense spending in their organization is "so daunting and takes so much data that they start realizing they actually need a tool.” 🛠 Those are the words that Joe Ryder, Senior Manager of Software Asset Management at McKesson, told us when he joined us for #SaaSMeUnfiltered!  The rise of SaaS surfaces new challenges for software asset managers including ongoing license management, renewals, and cost savings. If you missed his episode, check out the show highlights to learn more about why it's crucial for SAM pros to re-evaluate how they’re managing software holistically: https://lnkd.in/gsYvYbdd

Based on processing over $1T in business spend, we’ve seen that on average, procurement teams are: 💰 Overspending by 25% or more on software ❌ Wasting 51% of their licenses (purchased but unused)  📝 Manually handling 200 renewals annually There’s an incredible opportunity to save your business money by optimizing your software purchasing and renewals. Next week on July 24th or 25th join our webinar, Strategic Software Procurement: Your Crawl, Walk, Run Roadmap, where Zylo’s Co-Founder and procurement veteran Cory Wheeler will be outlining how procurement can use a “crawl-walk-run” strategy along with a step by step guide to putting that plan into action. Save your seat now! https://lnkd.in/dtvjJtVa

"When you make it hard for your people to do the right thing, you encourage them to do the wrong thing. That's how you end up with shadow IT." 📣 We couldn't agree more with procurement leader Brittney Linville. When she joined us on #SaaSMeUnfiltered, she talked about the importance of simplifying procurement processes to make them more user-friendly and efficient, therefore reducing friction and encouraging compliance while minimizing the risk of shadow IT. Her episode was full of incredible insights that you can check out for yourself here: https://lnkd.in/gvGa_kPy

Since organizations that have embraced #SaaSManagement, they've witnessed a significant transformation in how software is purchased. Now, less than one in ten employees (7%) expense SaaS applications, marking a 53% decrease since 2022 and a staggering 72% decrease over the past four years! 😮 Learn more about the consequences of decentralized purchasing, and how to reduce expensed apps at your organization here: https://lnkd.in/gzbWdQNK