About the Event

It turns out, Laura Numeroff’s popular children’s book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, was not about a cookie at all. It was about SaaS sprawl, a story of un-checked software expansion, evolution, and, ultimately, almost total proliferation. What began with cloud adoption evolved through the AI era, now leaving organizations with competing application suites and portfolios to make sense of, keep secure, and consolidate budgets around.

The question for IT leaders goes beyond how to get the cookie back, or catch up and control SaaS sprawl, but instead, how to build a strategy that accounts for these inevitable evolutions. Join IT Brew – alongside industry experts – to better understand how to architect a resilient SaaS portfolio that is able to balance cost optimization with risk management.

Here’s what you can expect to cover:

• Leveraging lifecycle management: Learn to progress your strategy beyond acquiring and retiring tools by implementing a process for continual evaluations and alignment with business priorities ensuring your SaaS stack stays lean and impactful.
• Creating a more collaborative IT unit: Explore the impact of cross-functional partnerships between IT, finance, security, and other departments to make the most sense of your SaaS sprawl. Recognize where tools are being leveraged to fill holes in resources and how a more strategic SaaS strategy can account for those insights.
• Preparing for fundamental disruptions: Understand how emerging AI capabilities are disrupting traditional SaaS categories by offering ways to collapse multiple solutions into unified platforms. With that in mind, consider how to future-proof your portfolio strategy to be ready for the next evolution, avoiding overcommitment to legacy systems.