Discover all your SaaS applications

Discover and manage SaaS apps with SaaS Manager Plus

SaaS Manager Plus offers a comprehensive solution to streamline SaaS discovery and management. With a variety of features designed to provide a centralized view of all SaaS applications, SaaS Manager Plus enables IT administrators to optimize SaaS usage, eliminate shadow IT, and maximize cost efficiency.

Automated SaaS discovery

Gain real-time insights into all the SaaS applications in use within your organization. With automated SaaS discovery, SaaS Manager Plus scans your IT environment to detect and track all SaaS applications, even those acquired outside traditional procurement channels. This means that any app, whether purchased directly by the IT team or adopted by individual employees or departments, is identified and catalogued. Automated discovery helps ensure complete visibility and control over your SaaS ecosystem, empowering you to manage these apps effectively and prevent unexpected costs and security risks.

Unified dashboard and data

The unified dashboard serves as a comprehensive control center for all SaaS operations, providing a consolidated view of applications, users, licenses, and spending metrics. IT teams can use this centralized hub to monitor KPIs, identify usage patterns, and address issues swiftly. By having all critical information in one place, SaaS Manager Plus reduces the time and effort required for SaaS management and helps in providing actionable insights for cost optimization and efficiency improvements.

Visibility

Through SaaS Manager Plus, organizations achieve enhanced SaaS visibility across all applications, departments, and user groups. This level of visibility provides a clear, holistic picture of the SaaS landscape, enabling better decision-making by allowing IT administrators and managers to assess each application's relevance, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. With comprehensive SaaS visibility, businesses can monitor application adoption, adjust usage policies, and reduce redundancies, ensuring each SaaS tool contributes value to the organization.

Eliminating shadow IT

SaaS Manager Plus is instrumental in eliminating shadow IT by identifying unauthorized or unsanctioned SaaS applications within the organization. Shadow IT occurs when employees or teams independently adopt SaaS tools without IT’s knowledge or approval, which can lead to security vulnerabilities, compliance risks, and unexpected costs. SaaS Manager Plus scans for unsanctioned apps, consolidating all applications in one central dashboard, so companies can mitigate these risks by controlling unauthorized usage and enforcing policies more effectively.

Cost optimization

Take control of your SaaS budget with the cost optimization feature. SaaS Manager Plus provides powerful tools to track app spending, analyze underutilized licenses, and detect overlapping subscriptions, helping organizations to reclaim budget and avoid unnecessary costs. With SaaS Manager Plus, you can quickly identify subscriptions that are redundant or unused and either renegotiate or cancel them to maximize SaaS savings. These capabilities empower finance and IT teams to align SaaS expenses with actual business needs, ensuring resources are allocated wisely.

User access management

User access management is simplified with SaaS Manager Plus, as it integrates with identity and access management (IAM) systems to synchronize permissions across the SaaS environment. This feature allows IT teams to assign roles and permissions, automate user onboarding, and prevent unauthorized access. By streamlining user access management, SaaS Manager Plus minimizes errors in permission assignment and reduces the time used for manual access control, providing a seamless and secure experience for all users.

Seamless connectivity across platforms

SaaS Manager Plus offers seamless integrations with popular business applications, enabling a consolidated view of all SaaS tools within the organization. By connecting with directories, HR systems, and finance tools, it automatically pulls data on app usage, spending, and user access, helping to keep all information in one place. This integrated approach simplifies monitoring, enhances data accuracy, and enables more informed decision-making while supporting smooth workflows across your SaaS ecosystem.

Advanced reporting and analytics

The reporting and analytics capabilities of SaaS Manager Plus allow organizations to generate detailed reports on application usage, spending trends, and user activity. With these insights, IT teams can make data-driven decisions to optimize app usage, reduce costs, and improve user engagement. Comprehensive reports provide a clear picture of the SaaS landscape, highlighting which applications deliver the most value and helping to identify areas for improvement, thus empowering leaders to make strategic decisions based on real-time data.

Application life cycle management

Application life cycle management helps organizations streamline the entire life cycle of each SaaS application, from onboarding to retirement. SaaS Manager Plus tracks each app's journey, providing insights into usage, costs, and renewal schedules. By managing the life cycle of applications, IT teams can ensure that only necessary and relevant tools are maintained, reducing excess costs and enhancing the efficiency of SaaS usage within the organization.

Optimize license usage

License management within SaaS Manager Plus helps IT teams track each application's licenses and identify those that are underutilized or redundant. By pinpointing where licenses are not being fully used, organizations can downsize or reallocate them to where they’re actually needed, saving on SaaS costs and ensuring maximum value from each subscription.

Prevent oversubscription

With comprehensive license tracking, SaaS Manager Plus prevents oversubscription by providing a real-time view of all active licenses and their usage. This prevents the organization from paying for more licenses than required, effectively curbing unnecessary expenses and keeping the SaaS budget lean and optimized.

Avoid missed renewals

Automated renewal alerts ensure that no SaaS subscription lapses unintentionally. SaaS Manager Plus notifies the responsible stakeholders ahead of time, allowing for a timely decision on whether to renew, renegotiate, or cancel a subscription. This proactive approach helps maintain uninterrupted access to critical tools while avoiding any last-minute renewal issues.

Facilitate renewal decision-making

Renewal alerts along with detailed reports on app usage, spending, and user engagement help stakeholders make data-driven renewal decisions. By analyzing these insights, companies can decide if an app is worth renewing, downgrading, or even eliminating, aligning subscriptions more closely with the organization’s needs and ensuring cost-effective SaaS management.

Common queries about SaaS discovery

What is SaaS discovery?

SaaS discovery involves tracking and managing all SaaS applications utilized within an organization. This is crucial for establishing control and understanding of the SaaS ecosystem.

What drives the need for SaaS discovery?

The need for SaaS discovery is driven by the increasing prevalence of SaaS applications in the workplace. With multiple departments subscribing to various apps independently, businesses face challenges in cost control, security, and efficient management.

Why is SaaS discovery considered the foundation of SaaS management?

Without SaaS discovery, organizations are often unaware of the exact number or nature of SaaS tools in use. This makes it nearly impossible to manage costs, enforce security protocols, and ensure compliance, highlighting why discovery is fundamental to effective SaaS management.

Types of SaaS discovery methods

There are several SaaS discovery methods, including network scanning, financial analysis (reviewing expenses related to SaaS subscriptions), and leveraging integration with IAM systems to detect user logins and app usage.

How does SaaS discovery influence business performance?

SaaS discovery positively influences business performance by providing a clear picture of app usage, enabling better cost management, reducing security risks, and ensuring resources are allocated efficiently.