QUIT TRYING TO PUT A SQUARE PEG IN A ROUND HOLE
Introduce Your Legacy SAM Tool to Its New BFF: The SaaS Management Platform
Both on-premises software and SaaS drive immense strategic value for your business — only if you have the right tools to effectively manage them. Many SAM teams today try to force existing solutions to work for SaaS. Often, it’s like trying to put a square peg in a round hole. Software Asset Managers who take this approach fail to adequately manage SaaS spending and risks — to the detriment of the business. Instead, a holistic strategy requires both a legacy SAM tool and SaaS Management Platform.
Continue reading to learn how they work together, why now is the time for action, and how to get started.
Better Together
SAM Tool + SaaS Management Platform
Modern Software Asset Management teams must use multiple tools to manage all software holistically. Learn why a SaaS Management platform is essential and complementary to your existing SAM tool.
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On-premises software tools don’t give you the SaaS management and SaaS visibility that you need. You can’t run with just one tool in the software asset management space.
Senior Director, Asset Management at Salesforce
The SaaS Problem No One Is Trying to Solve – But You Can
Focusing on just your top 10-15 software titles leaves you exposed to unknown risks and uncontrolled spending. Not taking action is the quickest way to paralyze the SAM function and diminish its effectiveness to the enterprise. Modern leaders elevate SAM’s strategic role by prioritizing the management of SaaS over on-premises software.
It’s Time to Modernize Your SAM Toolkit
SaaS already dominates the majority of software purchasing today. Soon, on-premises software will be a distant memory. Now is the time to put a SaaS Management platform in place and take control of your imminent future. Not only do you get to value more quickly, you’ll be managing software proactively and holistically.
- Why Your Software Asset Management Tool Falls Short for Holistic SaaS Management
- Multiplying the Power of Software Management Using an SMP And SAM Tool with Jason Owens (Salesforce)
- The Enterprise Software Management Tool Missing from Your SAM Program
- SaaS Management Platform vs SAM Tool: What’s the Difference?
- 6 Reasons Zylo Makes Software Asset Management A Joy, Not A Chore
Elevate Your SAM Role with SaaS Management
Software Asset Management is no longer just about audit preparation and license positioning. It requires a strategic mindset to eliminate waste, mitigate risk, and maximize software value. SaaS Management is your opportunity to elevate your role from SAM pro to strategic leader.
Software Asset Management Success Stories
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Adobe Unlocks $60M in SaaS Savings
After scaling $9B-$18B in four years, Adobe partnered with Zylo to gain visibility and control of their rapidly growing SaaS portfolio.
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Salesforce Builds World-Class Software Asset Management Team
By prioritizing SaaS, Salesforce’s SAM team is driving value and transformation across the business.
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Netflix Powers Data-Driven SaaS Optimization
With Zylo, Netflix has complete visibility into all its SaaS applications, allowing the SAM team to make data-driven decisions.
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Adobe Unlocks $60M in SaaS Savings
After scaling $9B-$18B in four years, Adobe partnered with Zylo to gain visibility and control of their rapidly growing SaaS portfolio.
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Salesforce Builds World-Class Software Asset Management Team
By prioritizing SaaS, Salesforce’s SAM team is driving value and transformation across the business.
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Netflix Powers Data-Driven SaaS Optimization
With Zylo, Netflix has complete visibility into all its SaaS applications, allowing the SAM team to make data-driven decisions.
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Zylo has helped us with the ability to establish a methodical and reliable framework for SaaS governance. The Zylo platform provides us with a complete view of our software spend and associated products.
Director, Software Asset Manager and Vendor Relations, Adobe Technology Services, Adobe
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If you consider something like a workflow that we use in Zylo, being able to have access to the information and automate the sending out of the emails to make sure that we’re re-harvesting the right licenses from the right people, it saves me hours.
Senior Software Asset Manager, Genesys
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Zylo enabled us to provide value we’ve never been able to before. All of a sudden we are armed with data to allow business to make a better decision. Within 6 months of a 2 year project, we are already at over 80% of our savings target.
SVP, CRO, CSO and Business & IT Asset Management, FIS
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We’ve achieved central visibility into our purchases, contract information, and utilization data. By using Zylo and the concierge services, it greatly improved our ability to take this information back to business owners and provide them with recommendations. This was absolutely key to helping them make better business decisions.
Technology Asset Manager, AbbVie
ZYLO FOR SOFTWARE ASSET MANAGERS
Manage Licenses. Mitigate Risk. Maximize Value.
As decentralized SaaS overtakes on-premises entitlements, it introduces new risks and challenges like underutilization, redundancy, ungoverned purchasing, and renewal chaos. Today, everyone can buy software for the business. In this new world, SAM professionals must adapt to rein in runaway SaaS spend.
