4 Questions with Uber’s Shobhana Ahluwalia

Software as a service has significantly impacted the way companies operate, both in terms of how employees maintain productivity and in the entire role and function of the IT department. Today’s IT teams continue to focus on infrastructure and security, but they’re also tasked with preparing teams to become champions for technology. This is especially…

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3 Free Ways to do SaaS Management

When it comes to SaaS management, there are two methods you could use: If you have a limited budget, free is obviously more appealing. In this blog post, we’ll explore three free SaaS management methods, including their advantages and drawbacks. Free SaaS Management Methods There are three free SaaS management methods out there: Spreadsheets One…

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4 Questions with HashiCorp’s Head of IT

The software-as-a-service model is designed to make doing business easier. This may be true concerning the specific apps you use, but juggling multiple subscriptions can become a chore in itself.  Without careful management, companies risk paying costly renewals for underutilized tools, paying for duplicate subscriptions, and not gaining the full productivity benefits of their software…

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Announcing Vendor Insights

The power of Productiv is a deep understanding of both your users as well as the applications that they consume in order to drive greater productivity in your organization. Our goal is to give you a real-time, 360-degree view of how your employees truly consume each application, down to the feature, so that you understand…

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Customer Success Chronicles: Productiv + Conga

I’ve had the pleasure of working with Conga over the past eight months as they’ve transitioned from their manual spreadsheet to Productiv for SaaS management. I’ve worked closely with Vinitha Jeevarathnam, IT Senior Program Manager, in on-boarding and training at Conga and recently caught up with her to share her perspective on modern SaaS management.…

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How to Manage and Optimize Application Ownership

Any software as a service investment shares two common characteristics: you have a problem to solve and you want to find a solution to solve it. If you’re the one making the purchase, you become the application owner. This process is repeated ad nauseam throughout the organization with multiple apps and application owners. In theory, this approach…

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Customer Success Chronicles: Productiv + UTA

I’ve had the pleasure of working closely with Christopher Johnson (CJ), Technology Adoption Manager at United Talent Agency (UTA). No surprise based on CJ’s role, UTA’s primary use case with Productiv is application adoption and enablement. It’s been really exciting to build our partnership and see a customer dive right in to our advanced engagement…

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What 4 Million Slack Messages Tell Us About Collaboration

What value is your company getting out of Slack? We’ve got the data. Using engagement analytics from Productiv’s SaaS Management platform, we looked at over 4,000,000 Slack messages across approximately 40,000 users. We compared this data to a similar number of messages from companies using other messaging tools. From this data we pulled concrete observations around how enterprises…

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How SaaS Spend Management Can Help Your Business Cut Costs

In the enterprise, “doing more with less” has become a way of life. Decision-makers must find places to cut costs. While it seems that SaaS applications would offer cost savings because they have lower total cost of ownership, that’s only true if your employees are getting the most out those apps. That’s where SaaS spend…

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