Become an expert in making strategic decisions to get the most from your IT budget.
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When it comes to the backbone of your digital world, how would you fix it up?
While IT spending typically increases every year, (Gartner predicts IT spending will grow by 3% in 2022) the real question is: Does it have to? The answer is a resounding no.
Here, we share questions to ask and strategies to employ to build and maintain a capital efficient SaaS stack that can scale with your organization’s evolving needs – without blowing the IT budget.
There’s a better, more compliant way to manage app- and permission-sprawl
You’ve heard them. You’ve probably been a part of them. Recent conversations with colleagues on the topic of mitigating costs, especially when it comes to SaaS spend.
The first aspect of measuring ROI is having a SaaS Management tool that identifies all tools in your stack and how to utilize them.
When I think about what we're spending, I also have to think about how exactly are we managing it.
Skydio's drones are used to catch physical security threats, but even the best drones can’t spot weaknesses in a company’s IT security.
Bring everybody to the table so everyone gets the same information at the same time and decisions can be made holistically regarding tool consolidation.
With some tools, there might be sticker shock, but it's important to understand what the tool solves and the corresponding impact.
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When you think about being a profitable organization, that means being really efficient with your spend, rather than the previous train of thought of, "growth at all costs".
Once we’ve decided on a tool, we agree on the success metrics even before we get to implementation.
The number one thing vendors need to hear is, just be straightforward and tell me what the product is.
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We’re living in a time where companies are no longer being tasked with growing at all costs. Instead, IT and finance teams have been given the mandate to find as many cost savings as possible across their technology stack, and to move their organizations to become more capital efficient.
As an IT leader, you’re constantly trying to stretch every 15 cents into a dollar while simultaneously defending your budget. With the exception of security, it seems like anything and everything in your budget can end up on the chopping block, leaving you with significantly less than the 15 cents you fought for last year.
You confidently present your findings to the CFO and then are hit with, “But how can we further reduce SaaS costs”?
Understanding provisioning IT and deprovisioning are crucial first steps.
With Lumos AppManager, you can discover shadow IT apps, calculate the savings potential, and auto-remove unused licenses all from a single dashboard.
Discover how to spot, manage, and harness shadow IT to benefit your business.
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