SaaS Management: Create Transparency, Reduce Costs & Increase Security
SaaS Management (SM) refers to the process of discovering, managing, and optimizing cloud applications throughout their entire lifecycle – for better cost control, compliance assurance, and reduced risks from shadow IT.
The Key Benefits of SaaS Management with Raynet One
Reduce SaaS Costs, Prevent Shadow IT & Increase Security with Raynet One
As the number of SaaS applications grows, so does the complexity: subscriptions must be managed, licenses optimized, and data protected across different platforms. Without a central overview, shadow IT, redundant tools, and rising expenses quickly emerge.
Raynet One gives you full control over your SaaS portfolio. The platform provides transparency across all subscriptions, contracts, and users, supports the optimization of SaaS spending, and ensures compliance & security throughout the entire SaaS lifecycle. This way, you avoid waste, meet regulatory requirements, and increase the ROI of your SaaS investments – while enabling your IT department to use resources more efficiently.
Optimize Your SaaS Return on Investment with Raynet One
Gain SaaS visibility
Get a complete overview of all SaaS applications, subscriptions, and users. Manage your SaaS landscape effectively and immediately detect shadow SaaS.
Optimize SaaS spend
Use precise usage data to eliminate duplicate subscriptions, phase out unused licenses, and sustainably reduce your SaaS expenses.
Maintain compliance
Ensure that all SaaS apps meet global security standards and compliance requirements (e.g., GDPR, SOC 2) – and minimize risks through automated offboarding.
Prevent shadow IT
Prevent the emergence of shadow SaaS through continuous transparency. This increases IT security, protects sensitive data, and strengthens your governance.
Successful IT Asset & SaaS Management Begins with Transparency
As part of a holistic IT Asset Management (ITAM) project, METRO AG achieved complete transparency across its decentralized IT landscape – including SaaS applications, contracts, and licenses – using the Raynet Unified Data Platform and USU License Management. Today, this centralized and reliable data foundation serves as the basis for the sustainable and cost-efficient management and optimization of the entire hardware, software, and SaaS portfolio, as well as for compliance-ready audits and informed decision-making.
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SaaS Management with Raynet One
Complete transparency is the key to sustainable SaaS Management. With Raynet One, you gain this transparency with just one click – and valuable insights into your entire SaaS usage.
By identifying active and inactive licenses, you establish a strategic foundation for optimizing your SaaS costs. Enriching your SaaS data with the Raynet One Technology Catalog helps you compare identical applications, avoid redundancies, and derive strategic recommendations based on the license model.
At the same time, continuous monitoring prevents over- or under-licensing, strengthens your compliance, and ensures you are optimally prepared for license audits.
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Frequently Asked Questions about SaaS Management
What is SaaS Management?
SaaS Management refers to the process of discovering, managing, and optimizing cloud applications throughout their entire lifecycle. The goal is to create transparency, reduce costs, and ensure compliance.
What advantages does SaaS Management with Raynet One offer?
Raynet One provides a complete overview of all SaaS subscriptions, users, and contracts. Companies benefit from reduced expenses, enhanced IT security, and automated compliance management.
Who particularly benefits from SaaS Management?
SaaS Management is important for companies of all sizes that use multiple cloud applications. IT leaders, security teams, and compliance officers especially benefit, as it helps them avoid shadow IT and licensing risks.
How does SaaS Management help reduce costs?
By analyzing usage data, Raynet One identifies unused or duplicate SaaS licenses. This enables targeted reduction of subscriptions, sustainably lowering costs and increasing the ROI of SaaS investments.
How does SaaS Management support IT security?
SaaS Management ensures continuous transparency across all deployed SaaS applications. This prevents shadow IT, security gaps, and unauthorized access, while ensuring compliance with standards such as GDPR or SOC 2.
How quickly can SaaS Management be implemented with Raynet One?
With Raynet One, companies can obtain an initial meaningful overview of their SaaS portfolio within minutes. The solution is ready to use immediately, scalable, and seamlessly integrates into existing IT systems.
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SaaS Management (SM) refers to the process of discovering, managing, and optimizing cloud applications throughout their entire lifecycle – for better cost control, compliance assurance, and reduced risks from shadow IT.
As the number of SaaS applications grows, so does the complexity: subscriptions must be managed, licenses optimized, and data protected across different platforms. Without a central overview, shadow IT, redundant tools, and rising expenses quickly emerge.
Raynet One gives you full control over your SaaS portfolio. The platform provides transparency across all subscriptions, contracts, and users, supports the optimization of SaaS spending, and ensures compliance & security throughout the entire SaaS lifecycle. This way, you avoid waste, meet regulatory requirements, and increase the ROI of your SaaS investments – while enabling your IT department to use resources more efficiently.
Implementing SaaS Management gives you control over your entire SaaS portfolio, providing visibility, cost optimization, and improved security. With SaaS Management, you can eliminate waste, ensure compliance, and maximize the value of your SaaS investments, empowering IT to manage resources effectively.
Get a complete overview of all SaaS applications, subscriptions, and users. Manage your SaaS landscape effectively and immediately detect shadow SaaS.
Use precise usage data to eliminate duplicate subscriptions, phase out unused licenses, and sustainably reduce your SaaS expenses.
Ensure that all SaaS apps meet global security standards and compliance requirements (e.g., GDPR, SOC 2) – and minimize risks through automated offboarding.
Prevent the emergence of shadow SaaS through continuous transparency. This increases IT security, protects sensitive data, and strengthens your governance.
As part of a holistic IT Asset Management (ITAM) project, METRO AG achieved complete transparency across its decentralized IT landscape – including SaaS applications, contracts, and licenses – using the Raynet Unified Data Platform and USU License Management. Today, this centralized and reliable data foundation serves as the basis for the sustainable and cost-efficient management and optimization of the entire hardware, software, and SaaS portfolio, as well as for compliance-ready audits and informed decision-making.
Complete transparency is the key to sustainable SaaS Management. With Raynet One, you gain this transparency with just one click – and valuable insights into your entire SaaS usage.
By identifying active and inactive licenses, you establish a strategic foundation for optimizing your SaaS costs. Enriching your SaaS data with the Raynet One Technology Catalog helps you compare identical applications, avoid redundancies, and derive strategic recommendations based on the license model.
At the same time, continuous monitoring prevents over- or under-licensing, strengthens your compliance, and ensures you are optimally prepared for license audits.
What is SaaS Management?
SaaS Management refers to the process of discovering, managing, and optimizing cloud applications throughout their entire lifecycle. The goal is to create transparency, reduce costs, and ensure compliance.
What advantages does SaaS Management with Raynet One offer?
Raynet One provides a complete overview of all SaaS subscriptions, users, and contracts. Companies benefit from reduced expenses, enhanced IT security, and automated compliance management.
Who particularly benefits from SaaS Management?
SaaS Management is important for companies of all sizes that use multiple cloud applications. IT leaders, security teams, and compliance officers especially benefit, as it helps them avoid shadow IT and licensing risks.
How does SaaS Management help reduce costs?
By analyzing usage data, Raynet One identifies unused or duplicate SaaS licenses. This enables targeted reduction of subscriptions, sustainably lowering costs and increasing the ROI of SaaS investments.
How does SaaS Management support IT security?
SaaS Management ensures continuous transparency across all deployed SaaS applications. This prevents shadow IT, security gaps, and unauthorized access, while ensuring compliance with standards such as GDPR or SOC 2.
How quickly can SaaS Management be implemented with Raynet One?
With Raynet One, companies can obtain an initial meaningful overview of their SaaS portfolio within minutes. The solution is ready to use immediately, scalable, and seamlessly integrates into existing IT systems.
Interested in our solutions, need further Information, or have questions?
With almost 25 years of experience and numerous customer projects worldwide, we can help you with your challenges – contact us today!