Tool duplication

SaaS duplication is draining budgets and adding risk.

As vendors in Security, Sales, Marketing, and Collaboration expand their capabilities to increase stickiness, organizations are increasingly adopting multiple overlapping tools. With department heads gaining more autonomy to purchase software, this redundancy drives overspend and introduces security and compliance risks.

Development and Security tools see the highest duplication, often used across multiple teams. For example, security monitoring platforms are deployed by both Security and IT Operations teams, as each requires real-time threat detection and system integrity monitoring.

Sales and Marketing platforms are also prone to duplication. Fierce competition pushes vendors to expand functionality, and large tech stacks across both departments create overlapping capabilities – a perfect storm for wasted spend and inefficiency.