Today SaaS vendors grow up like mushrooms after the summer rains. With the emergence of cloud-based services, adoption of new applications has become as easy as never before. Big investments are no longer necessary. SaaS applications have equalled big and small businesses: deployment of SaaS apps is easy, doesn’t require big up-front payments or any […]
We’ve already talked a lot about increasing SaaS adoption rates. Organizations rely on SaaS applications in critical operations more and more often. It’s stipulated by numerous benefits that SaaS provide to businesses. First of all, it’s a seeming cost reduction. Secondly, simplicity of SaaS deployment allow business units remain flexible and do not interrupt the […]
According to the IDC study results, more than half of organizations say that they blow 11% of their software budgets on underutilised applications. 30% of respondents say they do not optimize their software assets, and only 17% do software optimization. Businesses invest actively into new technologies and often do not realize how important it is […]
According to BDO, 74% of Tech CFOs say cloud computing will have the most measurable impact on their business in 2017. Considering undeclining SaaS adoption rates and that an increasing number of SaaS app purchases are made bypassing IT and Procurement, thus exposing the whole business to security and compliance risks, as well as extra […]
Procurement is an important function nearly in any company. The common view is that the Procurement’s major objective is to drive the bottom line down. However, the recent trend among the companies is shifting the focus from cutting costs to adding value. We, at Binadox, suggest you adopting the idea of a value-adding procurement in […]
Increasingly more Software Asset Management (SAM) tools target to fight security vulnerabilities to protect enterprise systems from hacker attacks, including ransomware, through monitoring unsupervised SaaS applications used by employees. And it isn’t out of place considering the latest trend – WannaCry spreading. WannaCry is a worm that exploits vulnerabilities in the Windows OS to spread […]
The Binadox Software License Compliance and Asset Management Solution now features a connector for Box. The Box connector synchronizes your Binadox account with your Box account to improve productivity and efficiency when managing your software assets and reviewing license agreements and terms of service. The Box connector enables you to upload license files from your […]
In the previous post we described how SaaS proliferation has influenced Software Asset Management (SAM), in this post we’ll talk about how SaaS apps explosion is impacting the role of the Chief Information Officer (CIO). The CIO used to be responsible for software procurement planning and cost optimization. The IT department worked in close tandem […]
Portable applications might not be in all headlines today, but they are still in use and deserve our attention. Portable apps are programs that do not require installation on your machine to be used. Portable applications can be stored on removable devices – such as USB drives, CDs and external HDDs – or can be […]
Software Asset Management (SAM) has been in the service of IT teams since the beginning of 1990s. In the age of on-premises software SAM tools served mainly to achieve software license compliance. However, the situation has changed and so has SAM. Today we live in the age of the cloud. And according to Gartner, in […]