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2025 Zylo SaaS Management Index
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Our Guest: Ben Pippenger is the Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Zylo, a SaaS management platform that helps businesses gain full visibility into their software usage, optimize licensing, and streamline renewals.
Episode Topics:
- Overview of Zylo’s SaaS Management Index annual report, which covers $40 billion of SaaS spend
- The AI adoption surge in software spend - 75 percent increase in spending.
- The Rising of SaaS Costs - increased by 9.3 percent year over year.
- The shift from traditional seat-based pricing to usage and value-based models.
- Ben’s takes on the decline of multi-year SaaS contracts in recent data.
- Ben’s insight to IT’s shrinking influence over SaaS.
- Increasing SaaS waste - $21 million annually on unused software licenses.
- Strategies to manage and reduce rising SaaS costs effectively.
- What are some hidden costs of long-tail SaaS purchases?
- Ben shares vendor negotiation tactics and cost-saving strategies to optimize software investments.
Resources:
https://zylo.com/reports/2025-saas-management-index/
https://www.saasletter.com/p/zylo-saas-management-index-2025
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