Zluri Blog - Vendor Management

  • SaaS Vendor Compliance: Essential Tips for CIOs- Featured Shot

    SaaS Vendor Compliance: Essential Tips for CIOs

    Imagine a scenario where a vendor's software system experiences a sudden crash, causing significant disruption to your organization's operations.

  • 9 Best Subscription Management Tools In 2023- Featured Shot

    9 Best Subscription Management Tools In 2023

    The term "subscription management" refers to various customer lifecycle processes, including the management of trials, the assignment of credits, the issuance of refunds, and the modification of subscriptions in the middle of a cycle. 

  • 10 Best SaaS Renewal Management Tools- Featured Shot

    10 Best SaaS Renewal Management Tools

    The tools streamline the renewal process and support the IT teams to avoid surprises. Moreover, they give you a window to plan for negotiation before the upcoming renewals. 

  • SaaS Spend Management: How Zluri Helps IT Leaders Deal with Budget Cuts?- Featured Shot

    SaaS Spend Management: How Zluri Helps IT Leaders Deal with Budget Cuts?

    The SaaS apps are easy to procure, install, use, and update. Therefore, creating effective SaaS adoption strategies for better workflow in business processes is crucial.

  • How CFOs can Leverage SMPs to Optimize SaaS Spending?- Featured Shot

    How CFOs can Leverage SMPs to Optimize SaaS Spending?

    So, it becomes crucial for CFOs to manage SaaS spending to attain the organizational goal efficiently. CFO needs to monitor and regulate the expenditure on SaaS applications to do better cost management and get the ROI of apps.  

  • Top 8 Vendor Management Skills & How to Develop Them- Featured Shot

    Top 8 Vendor Management Skills & How to Develop Them

    There is a list of skills a successful vendor manager ought to possess. Although some of these skills are crucial for other jobs, they are particularly critical for any position in the vendor management industry. 

  • SaaS Tail Spend - Definition, Examples, and How to Manage It Effectively- Featured Shot

    SaaS Tail Spend - Definition, Examples, and How to Manage It Effectively

    Tail spend management can be time and resource-consuming. It actively controls rogue spending, which favors the company's financial performance and affects the operating margin. 

  • Vendors Offboarding - A Checklist to Protect Your Organization- Featured Shot

    Vendors Offboarding - A Checklist to Protect Your Organization

    Third-party risks are a big part of vendor offboarding procedures. An organization that doesn't have a centralized database of vendors and a well-defined offboarding process leads to significant risks like third-party data breaches and compliance issues. 

  • New Vendor Relationship Management Best Practices for 2023- Featured Shot

    New Vendor Relationship Management Best Practices for 2023

    Vendor relationship management is a business process that empowers your organization to mitigate risks, optimize your SaaS spending and improve the overall business performance.

  • 12 Vendor Security and Privacy Assessment Software (RFP Issuer and Responder)- Featured Shot

    12 Vendor Security and Privacy Assessment Software (RFP Issuer and Responder)

    Vendor security and privacy assessment software assists in identifying, evaluating, and regularly reevaluating the vendors.

  • SaaS Renewal Best Practice for IT and Procurement Teams- Featured Shot

    SaaS Renewal Best Practice for IT and Procurement Teams

    SaaS renewal is a crucial part of SaaS vendor management, and it comes under SaaS governance. However, manual renewals can also take weeks if renegotiation is required; hence it is necessary to be prepared. 

  • SaaS Lifecycle Management: How to Manage SaaS Vendors Lifecycle - Featured Shot

    SaaS Lifecycle Management: How to Manage SaaS Vendors Lifecycle

    Your SaaS lifecycle starts with finding the best vendor that suits your organization’s needs, managing those vendors, tracking their performance, terminating contracts, if needed.

  • SaaS Agreement Checklist: Top 5 Terms to Watch Out For- Featured Shot

    SaaS Agreement Checklist: Top 5 Terms to Watch Out For

    Usually, the agreements are one-sided to the benefit of vendors—and the reason for this is most customers don't understand the nuances of the deal. Still, with proper knowledge and data, IT and procurement teams can get the best terms for their organization.

  • 4 Types of SaaS Vendor Lock-ins: How to Identify & Avoid Them- Featured Shot

    4 Types of SaaS Vendor Lock-ins: How to Identify & Avoid Them

    In this post, you're going to learn about different types of SaaS vendor lock ins. You'll also learn issues that arise due to SaaS vendor lock-ins, there causes and solutions.

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  • How Zluri can Detect and Manage ChatGPT Users for Improved Data Privacy and Security- Featured Shot

    How Zluri can Detect and Manage ChatGPT Users for Improved Data Privacy and Security

    ChatGPT poses a significant threat to data privacy and security, and it is essential for companies to track and manage its usage.

  • Top 30 SaaS Management Platforms [updated June 2023] - Featured Shot

    Top 30 SaaS Management Platforms [updated June 2023]

    SaaS management platforms can vary in their use-case, functionality, and costs. In this list, you’ll find the best 30+ apps to help you narrow down your search.

  • 5 Questions to Ask For Selecting the Best SAM Tool for Your IT Team- Featured Shot

    5 Questions to Ask For Selecting the Best SAM Tool for Your IT Team

    An ideal SAM tool contains all the above three integral components to manage software assets. Choosing one will help you enjoy the following benefits: enhanced visibility over your SaaS stack, compliance management, and more. 

  • Top 9 IT Asset Discovery Tools in 2023- Featured Shot

    Top 9 IT Asset Discovery Tools in 2023

    Keeping an inventory of all the hardware, software, and services within an organization is essential for ensuring the optimal use of these resources. But, discovering these IT assets is complex, especially for SaaS applications.

  • Simplifying Endpoint Management - Best Practices for IT Teams- Featured Shot

    Simplifying Endpoint Management - Best Practices for IT Teams

    Endpoints are the most vulnerable entry points for cyber attacks, and when compromised can lead to a security breach in the entire organization. With the increasing frequency of cyber-attacks, it's essential to have robust endpoint management in place to protect sensitive data and prevent unauthorized access.

  • How to Ensure Employees Get the Right Tools at the Right Time- Featured Shot

    How to Ensure Employees Get the Right Tools at the Right Time

    Relying on traditional methods (using tickets-based legacy systems) to manage IT needs may not suffice in today's rapidly evolving business landscape. The tedious and time-consuming process of onboarding employees using traditional methods can frustrate the IT team and the new employees.