Overview

SaaS has undoubtedly become a business productivity driver for most organizations. That’s why the pace of companies adopting new SaaS applications has been fast and furious in the past decade. But this trend has created challenges:

1) Most companies are unprepared to handle the work that managing a full SaaS stack involves—from tasks like promptly offboarding employees and transfering file ownership to making sure data remains secure.

2) Employees often don’t understand the security implications of deploying company data or assets in the cloud. They unintentionally—and sometimes intentionally—share sensitive files, emails, and even passwords with employees who shouldn’t have access, unauthorized people outside the company, competitors, or even worse, publicly on the internet.

3) Current macroeconomic conditions are forcing IT to focus on cost control and operational efficiency. IT is under even greater pressure to do more with less. IT staffing ratios have ballooned from 1:100 on average to now 1:150 or even 1:200. With this focus on business profitability, efficiency, and optimization, the need to drive efficiency, scale IT impact, and eliminate manual work has never been more imperative.

IT teams have been leveraging modern tools, like single-purpose identity-as-a-service (IDaaS) solutions, to solve the identity problem by controlling application access. Teams also leverage SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) solutions to prevent configuration drift and more. But these solutions were not purpose built to know and understand the complexity of SaaS applications.

BetterCloud is the SaaS Management Platform (SMP) category creator and leader, and provides unique value to customers within their existing IT portfolio. It serves as a critical force multiplier for IT—providing a centralized, zero-touch approach to automate, govern, and secure SaaS applications and employee access. Not only does it help IT maintain business priority focus, an SMP can truly transform the way IT enables a business.