SaaS Explore Articles

Proven strategies for optimising SaaS costs, including guidance on conducting a software audit, and advice on negotiating contracts.

A look at the benefits of using technology to analyze procurement spend, with real-world use cases, as well as guidance on evaluating spend analytics software providers.

Workflow automation is a powerful tool that can transform your day-to-day operations. This guide explores the key benefits, including enhanced productivity and more accurate data across your business.

Having a value creation plan is essential for all organizations, especially those operating within private equity company portfolios. This guide outlines the main pillars and strategies to increase value.

Through a combination of Vertice’s customer purchasing teams and cost reduction software, we can help your organization save up to 30% of its annual software spend.

SaaS hosting offers significant benefits compared to traditional on-premises data centers. In this guide, we’ll compare the two and list some top SaaS hosting providers, plus how Vertice can help you manage your tech stack.

End-to-end visibility across your technology stack is invaluable for troubleshooting issues and optimizing performance. Our guide to full-stack observability explains all you need to know, including opportunities and challenges, how to achieve it, and how the Vertice platform can enable real-time insights into your IT ecosystem.

SaaS integrations empower your staff to work efficiently across applications and platforms. Our guide has everything you need to know, including benefits and challenges, best practices, and how the Vertice platform can help you optimize your stack.

SaaS security posture management is becoming increasingly integral for organizations with growing SaaS stacks. This Vertice resource explains the main components, key benefits, best practices, and how our white-glove service can help enhance SSPM.

SaaS operations are critical in today’s software-driven world, ensuring organizations maintain top-spec security, cost optimization, and business agility. This Vertice resource explains how SaaS operations management works, its benefits, and how we can help.

In this in-depth guide, our experts lay out how to construct and optimize a powerful purchasing strategy no matter your industry or business size. Here we’ll also explain how Vertice’s customer purchasing teams offer essential support during SaaS purchasing, while the Vertice platform helps drive optimization across your entire SaaS stack. Let’s get into it.

By empowering negotiating teams and enhancing the use of software applications, the Vertice platform enables organizations to optimize their entire IT infrastructure.

All there is to know about mastering SaaS license management for maximum savings

Vertice enables you to take control of your organization’s contract renewal process, freeing up time and resources for you to spend elsewhere.

With dedicated customer purchasing teams supported by the Vertice platform, we can help your business optimize SaaS application visibility while reducing SaaS spend.

With the average organization using hundreds of solutions, vendor management can be tricky. Outsourcing this aspect of your business is one way to reduce the burden — we’ve put together a guide explaining all you need to know.

A detailed look at how to identify, analyze and manage your tail spend for substantial cost reductions, time savings, and efficiency improvements.

In businesses of all sizes, industries and geographies, SaaS subscriptions are on the rise. Their prevalence in modern organizations can be seen as a marker of growth: as your team and objectives develop, so too do the number of subscriptions required to carry out business operations. The difficulty lies in SaaS spend management. With dozens of subscriptions to manage, platforms to monitor, and contracts to oversee, SaaS spend optimization is becoming harder to achieve. That’s where Vertice’s SaaS Purchasing Platform can help. Read on to discover how SaaS cost optimization can be realized through the aid of the Vertice platform and its white glove service approach to customer purchasing.

A look at what can be negotiated within a software contract, along with expert advice on how to negotiate the best possible price and terms.

Keeping your data safe is an essential part of running your business — and access control tools will help you stop it from falling into the wrong hands. Our SaaS access management guide has all you need to know about this vital aspect of cloud strategy. Plus, find out how Vertice can improve visibility into user access within your organization.

In this guide, we’ll run through the key considerations associated with ensuring your software-as-a-service platforms are kept safe from threats like malware, data breaches, and unauthorized access.

Everything you need to know about managing SaaS, with guidance and best practices for reducing risk, controlling spend, and maximizing value.

The Vertice guide to effective software implementation, including benefits, step-by-step processes and SaaS implementation FAQs.

As the number of software applications used within modern businesses continues to grow, fostering healthy vendor relationships has never been more necessary. Vendor relationship management is how businesses nurture long-term partnerships with software suppliers. Maintaining these relationships is vital to SaaS operations, extracting greater value from subscriptions over time and controlling IT costs. Good vendor relations are considered essential for suppliers too, as high customer turnover can cause great uncertainty for these businesses. Learn more about why managing vendor relationships constitutes good business practice and how vendor relationship management software can aid the process below.

Strong vendor management is integral to ensuring your vendors are meeting your business needs. In this guide, we’ll cover all you need to know about the vendor management process and how it can lead to cost savings and improved performance within your organization.