SaaS spend
The total annual cost of all SaaS subscriptions across an organization, including sanctioned tools, shadow tools, and underused seats paid for but not used.
In more detail
Mid-market companies typically run a hundred to four hundred SaaS subscriptions, with the long tail growing every quarter. Twenty to thirty percent of the spend is on seats that are paid for but not actively used, duplicate tools serving the same need, or shadow tools the IT team did not know about.
Tracking the spend usually requires joining three sources: the SSO sign-in log (utilization), the corporate card and AP data (payment), and the ERP vendor records (everything paid by check or wire).
Where this shows up at Ceven
Ceven joins the three sources automatically and surfaces the rightsizing flags monthly rather than the typical quarterly audit. The savings compound on the renewal cycle rather than waiting for the next review.