Our customer’s IT and financial teams faced difficulties identifying cost optimization opportunities for the acquired entity. They lacked visibility over the entity’s applications, vendors, and total spend.
CloudEagle Provides Spend and Usage Visibility for Acquisitions
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Challenge
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Solution
CloudEagle's advanced reporting aligned perfectly with the customer's needs. It provided reports on spending by each entity and cost center, along with app usage and cost optimization opportunities through integrations.
Result
Thanks to custom reporting, our customers could track spend by entity and cost center, improving budget management. They consolidated overlapping ones, reducing costs and increasing savings.
Key Highlights:
- Detailed reports on spend by an entity and cost center for effective budget reports.
- Centralized visibility revealed duplicate apps, which were removed or consolidated.
Challenge
Our customer is a popular Residential and Commercial service provider that often acquires other organizations within the same industry.
Post-acquisition, our customer wanted to identify duplicate apps or where contracts could be merged between the two companies They wanted to report spend by entities so they could accurately report on budgets.
- Due to the decentralized SaaS buying and management processes, the IT team lacked visibility into what vendors were paid and which apps were used for the acquired company.
- Identifying cost-saving opportunities became challenging for the team as they struggled to detect overlapping applications or apps with unused licenses.
Not just the IT team but even our customer’s finance team faced challenges:
- There was no accurate report on how much each department spent on the applications, the licenses used, or the ROI realized for the money spent.
Solution
Our customer wanted to report on spend by different cost centers and entities to understand the spending patterns better. They also aimed to examine the entity’s app usage and related vendor expenses over a specific period for ROI analysis.
The CloudEagle platform’s advanced reporting capabilities had the right solution for the customer.
Identifying spend by each entity and cost center
In CloudEagle terms, an entity is the acquired organization.
- SSO, finance, and HRIS system integration enabled CloudEagle to gain complete visibility over the entity’s application stack, app usage insights, vendor spend, and department-wise spend data.
- Using our platform’s reports module, the customer generated reports showing the spend by each entity and cost center spanning from the entity’s inception to the present day.
Solution
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