Today we’re announcing the launch of our License Management System, as well as releasing “The Blissfully Guide to License Management,” a guidebook to the license management process.
Blissfully’s new solution includes tools to discover unused licenses and subscriptions within an organization, identify redundant apps to optimize spending, connect data from IT, Business Operations, Finance, and more, all designed to make SaaS License Management simple, visible, and automated.
An effective software provisioning process is key to success for your organization’s new hires. But it’s often a messy process for those involved. Having a system in place ensures that you won’t have employees locked out of key tools, and that your new hires will be contributing to your teams as quickly as possible.
Today, even small businesses use dozens of software tools and each one is used by various different employees with different access levels. Provisioning that access is its own process. We’ll walk through effective provisioning in this article.
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The number of SaaS apps within organizations has been growing for years, rising from just a handful at the start of the decade to today, when the average 250+ employee organization uses over 120 apps. Tracking when subscriptions renew is difficult and dispersed. Some companies are great at notifying you, some aren’t, and you may not hear about a renewal until just a few days before the deadline. That’s why you need a simple, repeatable renewal process that you can maintain on your own.
This checklist covers all the necessary steps in your vendor renewal process to ensure you have the right tools, are not wasting budget, and maintain your data security.
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Almost 10 years ago, Marc Andreesen wrote that “software is eating the world.” Today it’s as true as ever. And, with the rise of SaaS (software as a service) it’s become even easier to access the software your business needs. Today, SaaS plays an indispensable role for startups and multi-billion dollar businesses alike. We live in an age of the Cloud-Native company and the SaaS-first business, and that isn’t changing.
Read on to learn how the most tech-forward companies are handling SaaS.
Vendor approvals can be time-and-energy consuming if you don’t have a well defined process from the very start. Here’s a brief SaaS vendor approval checklist that will help guide your process and make sure you’re getting the best price, maintaining data security, and keeping necessary records as you bring a new vendor and product on board.
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Over the last decade, business IT has changed significantly. Computing has become more distributed, portable, and personal due to the popularity of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model of distribution. Previously, IT would purchase a software product and own the installation process across company infrastructure. Now, team leaders (or even individual team members) often select, purchase, and install the software tools they need on their own.
While this flexibility is healthy for productivity and keeping a business moving, the chaos of dozens or hundreds of individual SaaS apps with separate billing owners can be costly or even dangerous for businesses.
Did you know that in 2018, the average cost per employee of SaaS subscriptions ($2,884) was higher than the cost of a new laptop ($1,299 for an Apple Macbook Pro)? And, as more companies move to run entirely on SaaS, the software vs. hardware spending gap is likely to widen. In this post we’ll take a look at how and why this shift is occurring and what it means for you and your business.
It’s easy to assume that SaaS management is just another task for your IT team to handle. but, unlike on-premise software and hardware, anyone can purchase and install SaaS with just a few clicks and introduce a new variable into your business. That’s why effective SaaS management must go beyond your IT team and involve key stakeholders across your organization.
SaaS usage is accelerating at a rapid pace across businesses of all sizes and types. In fact, the average company pays for 20 times more SaaS subscriptions today than they did five years ago, and uses three times more free SaaS products than paid apps. SaaS has taken root across all functions and departments.
Impressively, non-engineering SaaS spend rose from about 10% in 2010 to over 80% today. Currently, 38% of companies work almost entirely on SaaS. Experts predict that in the next two years that number will go up to 73%, and the SaaS market will reach $76 billion.
There is a downside, however: Often, as SaaS tools begin to take hold within an organization, added complexity, lack of visibility across apps and teams, redundant tools and subscriptions, and concerns about data security become more common.
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is growing everywhere, and Google’s G Suite is quickly becoming the service of choice for SMB’s and enterprises.
Our G Suite Quick Setup Guide is designed to get your G Suite console set up and running fast to ensure that your data and users are secure and productive.
