Software Cost Reduction
Easy Software Management
Our goal is to simplify your software procurement and management. We work with innovative companies, giving you unparalleled visibility, control, and simplicity at all stages of software purchasing and management. As an important bonus, we’ll help you save time and money on your SaaS purchases too.
What is SaaS?
With software as a service, aka, SaaS, users or organizations subscribe to use software that is hosted online. This type of software is also called on-demand, web-based, or web-hosted software. The software provider hosts it on their servers and users access it via the internet.
SaaS Cost Reduction
- You can’t manage what you can’t measure. ACC’s operations team and partners serve as a guide and accountability partner to plug every supplier and contract into data-rich graphs and charts.
Challenges in SaaS Cost Reduction and Software Management:
As businesses evolve and grow, their IT systems, data solutions, disaster recovery and business continuity do not always grow with them. As a result, many companies are…
- Proliferation of SaaS apps across organization makes visibility difficult
- Lack of centralized control over SaaS procurement and spend
- Tracking SaaS usage to rightsize subscriptions and cut waste
- Users spin up SaaS apps without IT oversight or input
- Managing multiple SaaS vendors and contracts is complex
- Understanding total cost of ownership with SaaS fees, addons, overages
- Achieving economies of scale with too many disparate SaaS tools
- Minimizing overlap and redundancy across SaaS applications
- Integrating data across SaaS systems with APIs or connectors
- Maintaining compliance and security with cloud-based SaaS apps
- Handling ongoing subscription fees that may increase over time
- Renegotiating contracts or switching SaaS vendors is challenging
Cost Savings Strategy for SaaS
Vendor Agreements and IT Contract Management
Understand risks in data storage and IT vendor options
Track IT invoices for changes and billing inconsistencies
Consolidate and Align Software Contracts
Across organizations and departments, there is inevitably incongruencey among software usage. Programs that have been grandfathered in, employees using those they personally prefer and a myriad of other reason your software subscriptions may be all over the board.
By engaging a pattern like ACC, we work with experts in the software field to manage these expense on your behalf. We will understand your use cases, assess where improvements can be made, and negotiate SaaS agreements on your behalf.
Most clients see a savings of 10–35% in software savings.
Frequently Asked Questions About SaaS Cost Reduction
What is your company's current SaaS spend? How has it grown over time?
If your organization cannot answer this quickly, not to worry. There are many companies who are not accurately tracking their software contract spend. We can help!
Are we overspending on any SaaS applications?
Yes, it is very likely. One example would be overspending on Zoom and SurveyMonkey based on limited employee usage. In that scenario, you could likely reduce licenses and re-negotiate agreements.
Will this require a full overhaul of our software?
Not at all. Our operations team and partners work with your IT department to streamline how programs are purchased. You can also take advantage of our SMEs in SaaS which offer deep industry knowledge around negotiation and competitors.
Will this require a full overhaul of our software?
Not at all. Our operations team and partners work with your IT department to streamline how programs are purchased. You can also take advantage of our SMEs in SaaS which offer deep industry knowledge around negotiation and competitors.
