Rec Room Gets Complete Visibility on Free Apps Used By Its teams

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Rec Room 

Rec Room is a social app that enables users to design their games, customize their avatars, and enjoy playing with friends. By integrating cutting-edge virtual reality technology with video game fun, the app creates an immersive gaming experience.

It's a modest, efficient, kid-friendly gaming and socializing platform with no money-making schemes; they're focused on providing the best environment for customers to leave behind the world's troubles and enjoy the virtual environment.

Industry: Software Development

Founded: 2016

Company Size: Mid-market (200-500 employees)

Location: United States

Use Case: Application visibility 

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Problem 

Rec Room had an uncontrolled proliferation of SaaS applications within their SaaS stack. 

They lacked a centralized SaaS management system to prevent users from purchasing applications without the approval of IT.

• Even though shadow IT was evident within their organization, preventing it was challenging due to the lack of application visibility. 

• The lack of app and spend visibility made it even harder for the team to differentiate between sanctioned paid apps and the free apps used by employees without IT’s knowledge. 

Shadow IT was a major concern for the team as it posed significant security, financial, and compliance risks and difficulties in managing them. 

“We knew unsanctioned free apps existed within our SaaS portfolio but couldn’t attribute them to the right users." Also, it was a major hassle to differentiate between paid and free apps within our SaaS stack.

- Devin Murphy, Senior Accounting Manager, Rec Room.

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Solution 

Rec Room decided to eliminate its manual SaaS application tracking methods and switch to a SaaS management tool. 

After detailed research, CloudEagle was the answer they were looking for. It was the only SaaS management platform that provided application visibility, cost optimization, automated procurement, and assisted buying services.

To get things started, Rec Room signed up for a 15-day free trial with CloudEagle.

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To begin with, CloudEagle integrated with Rec Room’s SSO and financial systems. 

• SSO integrations with Gsuite and Azure AD revealed all the existing applications, including the sanctioned and unsanctioned apps their users signed up for. 
• Financial system integrations with Netsuite revealed the spending on each application by the finance teams. 

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Result 

Visibility on free apps: The CloudEagle team compared both the SSO and financial data and identified the list of free applications that users signed up for without the knowledge of the administrator and finance teams.

CloudEagle also revealed the users logging into those free apps and enabled Rec Room to communicate with those users to identify the reason behind their use of shadow IT.

Shadow IT and duplicate applications: SSO and financial system integrations helped Rec Room get complete visibility into shadow IT. It also enabled the team to identify similar applications already existing in their SaaS stack. 

Rec Room optimized its SaaS stack by eliminating applications with similar functionalities and controlling shadow IT effectively using CloudEagle’s centralized SaaS management and application visibility features. 

So, do you want to get visibility into shadow IT and optimize your SaaS portfolio?

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