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Turn insights into actions with SAP LeanIX SMP

SaaS adoption is on the rise and not slowing down anytime soon. SaaS applications enhance productivity, scalability, and corporate agility. However, a sprawling SaaS portfolio also creates complexity for IT, security, compliance, finance, and procurement teams. SaaS Management includes all the practices necessary to help your business grow with best-in-class SaaS while managing the costs and risks.

The SAP LeanIX SaaS Management Platform (SMP) will help your business optimize the cost and productivity of your SaaS investments so you can focus on innovating.

Automatically discover your entire SaaS portfolio

Integrate with all the key enterprise systems such as SSO, financial, expense management, contract management, cloud access security
Obtain an up-to-date overview of each discovered SaaS application, incl. members, usage, invoices, and contracts
Be automatically alerted when new applications are added
Stay on top of your SaaS portfolio and add accountability by identifying business owners of each application

Optimize SaaS usage, spend, and productivity

Track application usage patterns and identify underutilized purchases
Make strategic decisions about whether to improve adoption or decrease the number of licenses
Determine ROI on the most costly applications (e.g. Office 365, Salesforce, Workday, etc.)
Rationalize SaaS contracts without any negative impact on the business outcome

Plan and develop an effective renewal process

Develop and establish an internal process, as well as business ownership for newly discovered SaaS applications
Implement a process for cross-departmental license recycling, and only deploy or upgrade new applications or upgrade licenses when needed
Proactively prepare for contract re-negotiations with renewal calendar and custom alerts
Negotiate better deals with detailed insights into product usage

Establish SaaS security and governance

Document the security posture to track and monitor that SaaS applications comply with your organization's policies
Ensure application compliance with CCPA, GDPR, ISO 27001, PCI, and SOC2
Identify and rationalize non-compliant SaaS applications that pose a security risk

Automated transparency is the starting point for value stream optimisation

The service catalog provides a clear and precise inventory of the organisations’ services, which can be further expanded to understand any dependencies and risks, from both a technical and business operations perspective.

SAP LeanIX Value Stream Management (VSM) automates service documentation, freeing up your DevOps teams so they can resolve incidents faster, conduct thorough impact analysis, and avoid architecture drift. VSM increases cross-team visibility, fosters an culture of ownership and accelerates the onboarding experience of your new joiners.