# Zylo SaaS Management for Procurement

## Purchase and Renew SaaS with Unmatched Insights

### One Source for Renewal, Usage and Benchmarking Data

## Why Procurement Needs SaaS Management

## Regain Control of Your SaaS Spend
With the ability to purchase software with an employee credit card, SaaS spend often bypasses the formal procurement process. This lack of control leads to overspend, waste, underutilization and incredibly chaotic renewals. SaaS is essential to your business, but inefficiencies are costing you more and more every day.

## Wasted Spend. Underutilization. Chaotic Renewals.

| **Overspending (or more)** on SaaS by 2026 | **Of SaaS licenses go wasted** in a typical 30-day period | Annual **SaaS renewals** on average |
| ----------- | ----------- | ----------- |

Make informed purchasing decisions and maximize SaaS investments

## Zylo Empowers Critical CFO Initiatives
Zylo provides the reporting, benchmarks and alerts that procurement leaders need to get the most out of SaaS investments while freeing up your team for more strategic projects.

### Save Money
Reduce costs by identifying and taking action on redundant applications, duplicate subscriptions, and unused or underused licenses.

### Improve Financial Governance
Proactively manage all renewals and contracts in a single repository. Better forecast and budget with adoption data.

### Cut Waste
Discover and remove wasted spend from duplicate purchases and redundant tools. Reallocate underutilized or unused application licenses.

## Made for Procurement

## Save on SaaS and Simplify End-To-End Software Purchasing
With timely alerts and detailed usage and portfolio data, Zylo frees you to focus on strategic initiatives while closely managing company-wide SaaS license costs.

## Centralized Visibility and Insights
Find applications that get around your procurement policies by being expensed, miscategorized, or improperly coded. Access monitoring, auditing and reporting for all SaaS through a single, actionable dashboard.

### Example Use Cases:
- Maintain current system of record for application ownership
- Identify actionable SaaS purchasing inefficiencies
- Connect employee user data from HRIS tool to provide business unit/cost center insights
- Understand the category and functionality of all applications

## Proactively Manage End-To-End SaaS Procurement
Purchase, cancel, and renew SaaS – at massive scale – with insight gained from having up-to-date user, portfolio, and benchmark data. Understand savings over time with insightful reporting across all applications.

### Example Use Cases:
- Centralize everything you need for renewals including contracts, terms, owners and usage data
- Get a comprehensive renewal calendar (including auto-renewals) and proactive alerting to avoid surprises
- Benchmark existing price and negotiate to lower cost
- Avoid budget overages with visibility into actual vs. budget comparisons
- Leverage full purchasing power by aggregating disparate purchases

## Control Licenses with Complete Usage Data
Identify redundant applications to reduce unnecessary spend and inform renewals. Easily and confidently reassign or remove licenses based on deep usage data.

### Example Use Cases:
- Understand usage of all applications across all departments
- Uncover opportunities to reduce spend by identifying redundant subscriptions
- Identify where employee expenses can be migrated to an existing enterprise agreement
- Identify all unused licenses to reprovision or remove from inventory

## Centralize Cost Savings
Zylo Savings Center is a flexible, AI-powered workspace that automatically detects and prioritizes savings opportunities, estimates financial impact and prescribes actions so you can optimize software investments with confidence. Every dollar saved or avoided is captured and tracked over time with boardroom-ready visualizations and reporting.

## What Do Renewals Have to Do With Software Waste + Sprawl? Everything.
Zylo client Verkada’s VP of Enterprise Operations & Technology, Ksenia Kouchnirenko, shares how her team moved from spreadsheets to a true enterprise SaaS management platform with Zylo.

### Insights for Procurement Leaders

## Save Money. Simplify Renewals. Optimize Licenses.