Trim Tech Costs By Retiring, Replacing, Or Renegotiating Your SaaS App Portfolio

You likely have hundreds of software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps, some critical and some just lying around. You can save money without compromising impact with a careful SaaS discovery, assessment, and optimization strategy. In this session, learn how to evaluate and optimize your SaaS portfolio and how to negotiate with vendors to save money.

Key takeaways:

• Learn how to optimize the cost and effectiveness of your SaaS application portfolio.
• Master the methodology and the metrics to evaluate the contribution of each app.
• Identify a likely application scenario — marketing, collaboration, productivity, sales, or analytics and sometimes in finance, customer care, or business operations — where you can be successful with a business sponsor and clear impact metrics.
• Use Forrester's three-step SaaS rationalization process — discover, assess, and optimize — to methodically evaluate the impact, costs, and risks of each application.
• Work with business sponsors to determine what to do with each app: retire unused or underused apps, combine redundant apps, and/or renegotiate contracts for apps you will keep.

Target audience level: intermediate