“It’s a great collaboration tool between IT and Finance for managing our SaaS applications." "Anytime an employee uses a new application or buys from a new vendor, I get notified right in my inbox.”
- Chad Lockey, Senior IT Manager, Heath Ceramics
Heath Ceramics lacked visibility into their SaaS applications and struggled with spreadsheet-based management, hindering optimization. Lack of centralized view made finding free apps difficult. Finance team couldn't attribute spending accurately due to spreadsheet limitations.
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Heath Ceramics sought an all-in-one SaaS management solution for visibility and spend optimization. CloudEagle provided the needed functionalities. Integrated with their SSO and finance systems, it enabled the discovery of SaaS applications, streamlined spend tracking and optimization.
Heath Ceramics achieved centralized visibility into their applications and spending, facilitating easy management and cost tracking by the department. They identified sanctioned and shadow IT apps, optimizing their SaaS stack by eliminating duplicates and unapproved apps.
Heath Ceramics improved SaaS visibility and spending management with CloudEagle. The IT team now easily identifies sanctioned and shadow IT apps, optimizing their portfolio and preventing unnecessary costs.
Our top priorities were optimizing our SaaS portfolio and controlling spending at Heath Ceramics. However, achieving these goals required visibility into our SaaS applications.
We used spreadsheets to manage SaaS applications, but this manual approach wasn’t sufficient and accurate enough to make well-informed management and optimization decisions. There was no centralized view of our SaaS stack, and spreadsheets could only track a small fraction of their SaaS portfolio.
This lack of visibility made it hard for our IT team to differentiate sanctioned apps from unsanctioned ones (shadow IT), making optimization difficult. Also, our finance team couldn’t attribute the spending to each application and vendor.
It was impossible to distinguish between apps formally paid for by the finance team and apps resulting from shadow purchases, as spreadsheets didn’t provide all the necessary information.
“CloudEagle provided a bird's-eye view of our entire SaaS stack. We realized the true size of our SaaS portfolio and were able to track and manage them in one place,”
- Chad Lockey, Senior IT Manager at Heath Ceramics.
Heath Ceramics was looking for an all-in-one SaaS management platform with SaaS visibility and spend optimization features and they decided to onboard with CloudEagle for its extensive SaaS application management features.
Onboarding was completed in 30 minutes, which happens to be the fastest onboarding process in the SaaS management market. SSO integrations and direct integrations enabled our platform to look into their SaaS portfolio and provide compelte SaaS visibility to Heath Ceramics's IT team.
CloudEagle integrated with their finance systems and provide visibility into complete spending insights, from departmental spending to individual data. Heath Ceramics was now able to see how the team were spending on each application and were able to compare it against the usage data provide by CloudEagle.
Heath Ceramics got centralized visibility on all their applications and app usage data. CloudEagle displayed all the data in one place, making it easy to manage and saving time from needless navigation, resulting in 1350 hours saved in SaaS management. This centralized visibility enabled the IT teams to effortlessly identify the applications sanctioned for purchase and those resulting from shadow IT.
The Heath Ceramics team gained insights into their application and vendor spend. With CloudEagle's 40 detailed spend reports, the finance team could analyze departmental spending on SaaS applications, distinguishing between legitimate and shadow purchases.
Using both application and spend visibility, the IT and finance teams optimized their SaaS stack by eliminating duplicate apps and free apps that resulted from shadow IT and purchases., saving thousands of dollars. CloudEagle continues to assist Heath Ceramics in keeping its SaaS stack optimized by providing cost optimization insights and preventing shadow IT.
