Why SaaS Discovery and Inventory matters
Uncover the Waste and Risk in Your Stack
With new applications being expensed across your business daily, it is essential to have complete and up-to-date visibility of the waste, redundancy, and risk hiding in your stack. The reality is that manual spreadsheets and legacy SAM tools are not equipped to handle today’s pace of change—this is especially true in the enterprise, where thousands of applications run across hundreds of departments.
Without Visibility, Waste and Risk Run Rampant
Of software is purchased outside of IT management
Of licenses go unused and wasted annually
Companies on average spend 304% more on SaaS than they are aware of
More susceptible to a security breach
Confident decisions require accurate data
Discovery and Inventory Is the Bedrock of Enterprise SaaS Management
Continuous and comprehensive visibility of every application in your stack is the foundation on which an effective SaaS Management program is built. Zylo Discovery and Inventory delivers a centralized, complete, and categorized inventory of your applications and spend to make informed decisions and optimize your entire software ecosystem with confidence.
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Uncover and Reduce Redundancy
Categorize and compare applications to identify software offering similar functionality to reduce waste and save money.
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Pinpoint and Mitigate Security Risk
Instantly flag rogue applications in your stack with Zylo’s Security Detail, powered by Netskope.
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Find and Control Shadow IT
Identify all employee-expensed applications as soon as they enter your stack to control unauthorized usage, spend and compliance risks.
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Uncover and Reduce Redundancy
Categorize and compare applications to identify software offering similar functionality to reduce waste and save money.
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Pinpoint and Mitigate Security Risk
Instantly flag rogue applications in your stack with Zylo’s Security Detail, powered by Netskope.
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Find and Control Shadow IT
Identify all employee-expensed applications as soon as they enter your stack to control unauthorized usage, spend and compliance risks.
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For people to be able to go swipe the credit card and bring a tool in our environment, it is scary. There is no real way for you to measure and report. That’s where Zylo came in and helped us in a BIG way. We are eternally thankful to them for this partnership.
Director, Software Asset Manager and Vendor Relations, Adobe Technology Services, Adobe
The Most Comprehensive Discovery and Categorization Available
Zylo
Other Platforms
The Industry’s Most Intelligent Discovery Engine
AI is only as good as the data that informs it. For nearly a decade, Zylo’s AI-powered discovery engine has been learning from over $2 trillion in business spend processed and over $34 billion in SaaS spend analyzed. There’s no other provider that comes close to our proprietary dataset. Zylo's Discovery and Inventory stays ahead of the curve by continuously identifying new applications and purchases, ensuring your SaaS inventory remains current even in a dynamic market.
Automatic App Categorization and Insights
Zylo’s ever-growing application library of over 22,000 unique applications is unrivaled. With Zylo all applications are matched and categorized. Sort applications based on their functionalities, enabling easy identification of redundant applications offering similar features and an at-a-glance perspective of your applications.
Deep Security Detail
Zylo’s Security Detail, powered by Netskope, provides security risk assessments for each application, helping you prioritize remediation efforts. Additionally, by comparing your complete app inventory to those integrated with SSO (Single Sign-On), you can identify applications with security vulnerabilities and create a roadmap for bringing them under SSO for improved security.
Intelligent Shadow IT Management
The platform can integrate with expense management tools to identify applications purchased with employee credit cards. Uncover shadow IT and make informed decisions about integrating or removing unauthorized applications. User activity monitoring can further reveal shadow IT usage patterns. Ensure all compliance and budgeting considerations are addressed when onboarding newly discovered applications.
Usage Connect
Centralized no-code connection for usage data within Zylo where technical blockers, security concerns or SSO limitations prevent a direct integration.
Complete Spend Management
From processing over $2 trillion in business transactions, Zylo has built the industry’s most complete spend analytics and management tools. With Zylo you’ll have a complete picture of all spend based on your actual payment data, including expenses not tracked on POs to quickly identify out-of-policy purchasing. Visualize trends across your entire stack and dig deep into individual apps to surface applications where multiple subscriptions may exist.
Zylo
The Industry’s Most Intelligent Discovery Engine
AI is only as good as the data that informs it. For nearly a decade, Zylo’s AI-powered discovery engine has been learning from over $2 trillion in business spend processed and over $34 billion in SaaS spend analyzed. There’s no other provider that comes close to our proprietary dataset. Zylo's Discovery and Inventory stays ahead of the curve by continuously identifying new applications and purchases, ensuring your SaaS inventory remains current even in a dynamic market.
Automatic App Categorization and Insights
Zylo’s ever-growing application library of over 22,000 unique applications is unrivaled. With Zylo all applications are matched and categorized. Sort applications based on their functionalities, enabling easy identification of redundant applications offering similar features and an at-a-glance perspective of your applications.
Deep Security Detail
Zylo’s Security Detail, powered by Netskope, provides security risk assessments for each application, helping you prioritize remediation efforts. Additionally, by comparing your complete app inventory to those integrated with SSO (Single Sign-On), you can identify applications with security vulnerabilities and create a roadmap for bringing them under SSO for improved security.
Intelligent Shadow IT Management
The platform can integrate with expense management tools to identify applications purchased with employee credit cards. Uncover shadow IT and make informed decisions about integrating or removing unauthorized applications. User activity monitoring can further reveal shadow IT usage patterns. Ensure all compliance and budgeting considerations are addressed when onboarding newly discovered applications.
Usage Connect
Centralized no-code connection for usage data within Zylo where technical blockers, security concerns or SSO limitations prevent a direct integration.
Complete Spend Management
From processing over $2 trillion in business transactions, Zylo has built the industry’s most complete spend analytics and management tools. With Zylo you’ll have a complete picture of all spend based on your actual payment data, including expenses not tracked on POs to quickly identify out-of-policy purchasing. Visualize trends across your entire stack and dig deep into individual apps to surface applications where multiple subscriptions may exist.
Other Platforms
The Industry’s Most Intelligent Discovery Engine
AI is only as good as the data that informs it. For nearly a decade, Zylo’s AI-powered discovery engine has been learning from over $2 trillion in business spend processed and over $34 billion in SaaS spend analyzed. There’s no other provider that comes close to our proprietary dataset. Zylo's Discovery and Inventory stays ahead of the curve by continuously identifying new applications and purchases, ensuring your SaaS inventory remains current even in a dynamic market.
Automatic App Categorization and Insights
Zylo’s ever-growing application library of over 22,000 unique applications is unrivaled. With Zylo all applications are matched and categorized. Sort applications based on their functionalities, enabling easy identification of redundant applications offering similar features and an at-a-glance perspective of your applications.
Deep Security Detail
Zylo’s Security Detail, powered by Netskope, provides security risk assessments for each application, helping you prioritize remediation efforts. Additionally, by comparing your complete app inventory to those integrated with SSO (Single Sign-On), you can identify applications with security vulnerabilities and create a roadmap for bringing them under SSO for improved security.
Intelligent Shadow IT Management
The platform can integrate with expense management tools to identify applications purchased with employee credit cards. Uncover shadow IT and make informed decisions about integrating or removing unauthorized applications. User activity monitoring can further reveal shadow IT usage patterns. Ensure all compliance and budgeting considerations are addressed when onboarding newly discovered applications.
Usage Connect
Centralized no-code connection for usage data within Zylo where technical blockers, security concerns or SSO limitations prevent a direct integration.
Complete Spend Management
From processing over $2 trillion in business transactions, Zylo has built the industry’s most complete spend analytics and management tools. With Zylo you’ll have a complete picture of all spend based on your actual payment data, including expenses not tracked on POs to quickly identify out-of-policy purchasing. Visualize trends across your entire stack and dig deep into individual apps to surface applications where multiple subscriptions may exist.
Complete Discovery and Categorization
How Discovery and Inventory Works
Lack of Visibility = Unknown Waste and Risk
83% of applications are expensed outside of IT, unknown and are not tracked in any central database. You can’t manage what you can’t see — license waste, missed renewals, overspending, and security and compliance risks result from a lack of visibility.
Continuous and Comprehensive Discovery
Zylo’s AI-powered discovery engine continuously ingests your financial transactions to uncover all SaaS applications present in your business, regardless of who purchased them.
Automatic and Accurate Categorization
Using the industry-leading and ever-growing library of over 22,000 applications, Zylo matches and categorizes all discovered software. Every time your data is ingested, your inventory is updated, giving you a complete and up-to-date picture of your entire SaaS stack.
Centralized Spend, Redundancy, and Security Insights
Zylo Discovery and Inventory delivers a centralized single source of truth for:
- All software spend (accounts payable AND expensed) to track what is being purchased and who is buying it
- Security detail powered by Netskope to assess and flag any rogue software creating unnecessary security risks
- Side by side comparison of applications to quickly identify redundancy and optimize your software portfolio
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If you would’ve asked me two, three years ago, I probably would’ve said we have 100 apps. Now that Genesys has a SaaS management tool, we know we have over 600.
Senior Software Asset Manager, Genesys
Powerful use cases across your entire organization
Zylo is Built for IT, Procurement, and SAM
Gain complete visibility into all SaaS applications
- Inventory and Discovery: Identify all SaaS applications in use, including those outside of IT’s traditional purview.
- Shadow IT Management: Uncover unauthorized applications and assess potential security risks.
- SSO Roadmap: Identify applications not behind SSO and create a roadmap to further secure access to applications used in the enterprise.
- Standardization and Consolidation: Identify opportunities to standardize on essential applications and consolidate redundant tools.
Gain a holistic view of the software landscape
- Software Cost Optimization: Identify cost savings opportunities through license optimization and consolidation.
- Software Rationalization: Analyze SaaS applications and identify those that are redundant or underutilized.
- Software Risk Management: Assess and mitigate security risks associated with unauthorized SaaS applications.
- Software Policy Enforcement: Enforce software usage policies and restrict access to unauthorized applications.
Gain insights into all SaaS spend across the organization
- SaaS Spend Analytics: Analyze usage data to identify cost optimization opportunities and underutilized licenses.
- Budgeting and Forecasting: Develop accurate budgets based on the actual SaaS spend landscape.
- Vendor Management: Centralize vendor information and streamline communication with SaaS providers.
- Compliance Reporting: Generate reports to demonstrate adherence to SaaS purchasing policies.
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I thought that I had things under control back in the day, then I implemented the Zylo platform and was like, oh wow, I actually didn’t really know about these applications.
Chief Information Security Officer, Deepwatch
Finally. A comprehensive, centralized, up-to-date SaaS inventory.
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Avoid risk and control spend with Zylo’s SaaS Discovery & Inventory Management. Our AI-powered discovery engine provides continuous, centralized visibility into all your SaaS applications and spend, uncovering hidden costs and risks to put you back in control of your SaaS environment.
Build your foundation for cost savings and risk reduction
Zylo’s Discovery and Inventory Is the Foundation of Effective SaaS Management
Book your personalized demo today to see how Zylo Discovery and Inventory helps you uncover all applications and build a foundation for a successful SaaS management program. This is your first step to taking control of your SaaS stack, take it today.