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Shifting Software markets Traditional software contracts in companies nowadays can be counted on two hands. The signs have long been pointing towards SaaS for every new application that is purchased. Gartner predicts that the worldwide SaaS market is still growing in 2024 by nearly 20%. On average, a company uses around 150 SaaS applications. Traditional software asset and license management does no longer work under these conditions. Software Center of Excellence (SCoE) A SaaS Center of Excellence (SCoE) is a dedicated team or organizational unit within a company that focuses on optimizing the use of SaaS applications across the organization.… Read more: Revolutionize the way you buy software: Five tactics on how a SaaS Center of Excellence (SCoE) cuts your software costs by 30%!

About the series This is the second part of my series on SaaS Governance. We can probably assume that every enterprise company has created and implemented their own public cloud governance. Trying to cope with all the regulations that are out there and adding their own bouquet of rules to them. Most if not all of these governance rules deal with the well-known hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP), but what about SaaS? Most companies shy away from this topic because there is no central unit like a SaaS Center of Excellence (SCoE) that manages all of their SaaS applications. This series… Read more: SaaS Governance Series: Why SaaS should be classified

About the series This is the first part of my new series on SaaS Governance. We can probably assume that every enterprise company has created and implemented their own public cloud governance. Trying to cope with all the regulations that are out there and adding their own bouquet of rules to them. Most if not all of these governance rules deal with the well-known hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP), but what about SaaS? Most companies shy away from this topic because there is no central unit like a SaaS Center of Excellence (SCoE) that manages all of their SaaS applications. This… Read more: SaaS Governance Series: One SaaS Rule to Rule Them All

The changing SaaS market We start this article with a little history lesson. SaaS has been around ever since the Internet existed and was first mentioned in a service description in 1985. Microsoft used the term SaaS as Software Plus Services as early as 2007. SaaS usage is expected to grow by 18% again in 2022, according to Gartner and there is no end in sight for further growth. But what has changed? In the beginning around 1999 there was only Salesforce starting with their subscription and cloud based CRM software. All big players did not yet understand that this… Read more: The SaaS market is changing and already hurting you

Admitting that you have a problem The first step in any addiction is admitting that you have a problem. SaaS usage is expected to grow by 18% again in 2022, according to Gartner. The Corona pandemic has put many companies out of control with their established software procurement processes and the only thing that mattered was to keep the business running. This also meant that the business units and their requirements were the determining factor for the purchase of SaaS solutions and not the IT. The people in charge of many companies are rather subconsciously aware of how much SaaS… Read more: Is your company a SaaSaholic?