27 Stories by Mansoor Ahmed
When your options come down to choosing between Brex vs. Divvy, here’s what you need to know.
Invoices have changed a lot in the last 7,000 years, as have the best practices for managing them. Are you keeping up?
Shadow IT costs businesses millions of dollars per year in unauthorized spending, and security risks may end up costing much more.
You already suspect that shadow IT is a problem in your organization. How do you eliminate it? There are several options.
If your company is like many average companies, you’re unaware of 50% of your IT spending.
There are definite risks to losing control over your IT solutions. But looking beyond the threats, what about the benefits of shadow IT?
Deployed without authorization from the IT department, shadow IT introduces unnecessary risks and costs.
SaaS and BYOD are core contributors to the Shadow IT menace. Unknown applications have corporate data that is untraceable.
Click-through agreements are so infrequently read, there are comedies about what we might be agreeing to, but SaaS contract management is no joke.
Measuring SaaS usage is simply based on licenses, logins, and features.
SaaS license management not only requires managing licenses when employees onboard and off-board, but right-sizing subscriptions to optimize spend.
Organizations have built a spend management approach around traditional SAM and ITAM. But those methods are stuck in the 90s.
