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Zylo Enterprise SaaS Management

Delivering Software Savings for Guitar Center

Make informed renewal and purchasing decisions to drive efficiency and improve margins with the leader in SaaS Management.

A Personal Message from Zylo's Executive Chairman

Supporting Guitar Center's Strategic Goals

As the leader in SaaS Management, Zylo empowers leading enterprise retail organizations like Guitar Center to centralize, optimize, and govern software, leading to cost savings, risk mitigation and operational efficiencies. Watch this message from Zylo’s Executive Chairman, Scott Dorsey, to hear more.

A Personal Message from Zylo's Chief Customer Officer

Committed to Guitar Center's Success

In our conversations with your team and through our POC process, we’ve learned that Guitar Center shares many of the same challenges that our enterprise customers solve with our platform. Our team is committed to ensuring Guitar Center’s SaaS Management strategy is a success.

Watch this message from Zylo’s Chief Customer Officer, Cory Wheeler, to hear more.

 

Save Money and Simplify Renewals

Why Zylo for Guitar Center

Through our conversations with your SAM and procurement teams, we’ve gained a deep understanding of the challenges you’re facing and hoping to solve. Zylo’s leading SaaS Management platform delivers a  SaaS system of record to centralize usage data, simplify renewal processes while eliminating redundancies and inefficiencies.

With Zylo, Guitar Center’s team can make informed renewal and purchasing decisions to drive efficiency and improve margins.

  • SaaS Inventory & Spend Management
    • Removes manual effort to build SaaS Inventory list
    • Creates visibility into all SaaS spend, including decentralized purchases
    • Discovers and categorizes all SaaS apps for streamlined management
    • Surfaces security compliance, risk for all apps, especially Shadow IT
  • License Management & Optimization
    • Centralizes visibility into application usage across comprehensive SaaS stack
    • Leverages deep utilization insights via direct integrations to provide licensing recommendations
    • Integrates for broad utilization optimization
  • Renewal Management
    • Currently, renewals are decentralized to individual App owners
    • In the future, Zylo will centralize siloed spend, utilization, ownership, and contractual data to operationalize renewals
    • Removes the surprise renewal scenario where IT must intervene and lose leverage
  • SaaS Inventory & Spend Management

    • Removes manual effort to build SaaS Inventory list
    • Creates visibility into all SaaS spend, including decentralized purchases
    • Discovers and categorizes all SaaS apps for streamlined management
    • Surfaces security compliance, risk for all apps, especially Shadow IT

  • License Management & Optimization

    • Centralizes visibility into application usage across comprehensive SaaS stack
    • Leverages deep utilization insights via direct integrations to provide licensing recommendations
    • Integrates for broad utilization optimization

  • Renewal Management

    • Currently, renewals are decentralized to individual App owners
    • In the future, Zylo will centralize siloed spend, utilization, ownership, and contractual data to operationalize renewals
    • Removes the surprise renewal scenario where IT must intervene and lose leverage

The Recognized Leader

Zylo Named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SaaS Management Platforms

If Guitar Center is looking to implement an effective SaaS Management Platform, Zylo is the clear leader. Gartner has positioned Zylo both highest for Ability to Execute and furthest for Completeness of Vision in it’s first-ever Magic Quadrant for SaaS Management Platforms.

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Trusted by the World’s Most Innovative Enterprises

Unmatched Insights. Unmatched Value.

$B+

In business SaaS spend under management provides deeper benchmark data to inform your purchasing and renewals.

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Applications in Zylo’s constantly growing library ensures no application in your business goes uncategorized.

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Our customers see an average 6X return on investment.

Featured Customer Win

Adobe Drives Massive Savings with Zylo

After scaling from $9B to $18B in just four years, Adobe partnered with Zylo to gain visibility and control of their rapidly growing SaaS portfolio. 

Key Outcomes:

  • Unlocked $60M in SaaS Savings
  • Identified and categorized over 2,600 apps
  • Saved over 10,000 hours annually
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The Only Platform Built for IT, Procurement, and SAM

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    For IT Leaders
    • Track and control licenses and utilization
    • Eliminate risk laden blindspots
    • Cut software waste and redundancy 
    • Increase adoption and efficiency
    Zylo for IT
  • people
    For Procurement Leaders
    • Regain control of your budget
    • Confidently manage contracts and renewals
    • Drive application value 
    • Add cash to your bottom line
    Zylo for Procurement
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    For Software Asset Managers
    • Fend off disasters and ensure SaaS compliance
    • Be audit ready with a centralized source for all SaaS data
    • Optimize licenses and spend
    Zylo for SAM
  • people
    For IT Leaders

    • Track and control licenses and utilization
    • Eliminate risk laden blindspots
    • Cut software waste and redundancy 
    • Increase adoption and efficiency

    Zylo for IT
  • people
    For Procurement Leaders

    • Regain control of your budget
    • Confidently manage contracts and renewals
    • Drive application value 
    • Add cash to your bottom line

    Zylo for Procurement
  • people
    For Software Asset Managers

    • Fend off disasters and ensure SaaS compliance
    • Be audit ready with a centralized source for all SaaS data
    • Optimize licenses and spend

    Zylo for SAM

  • 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.

    — Jason Owens

    Senior Director, Asset Management at Salesforce

Leading Companies Drive Business Value with Zylo

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  • Let’s say marketing has a tool coming up for renewal – 30% of your users aren’t using the tool, and 30% aren’t using features in their license type. Let’s downgrade those users and buy the right number of licenses instead of throwing dollars away.

    — Karen Hodson

    Global Procurement & Real Estate Officer, Marigold

Get in Touch

Contact Guitar Center's Team

Zylo looks forward with Partnering with Guitar Center to drive cost savings and efficiency while reducing risk. Click the link below to message your Zylo Account Executive, Brian Coburn.

Email Brian Coburn