Strategic Software: Smarter SaaS Spend

Budgets are tighter, stacks are bloated, and renewal cycles keep creeping closer. If your organisation is drowning in tools but starved for value, it’s time to take a smarter approach to SaaS spend.

Join Steven Baker, Founder of VendorSage, for a candid, practical session on cutting through SaaS sprawl and turning spend into strategy.

Discover how to:

• Tackle tool bloat without undermining capability
• Consolidate around platforms that scale with your business
• Turn renewals into strategic checkpoints, not sunk costs
• Position Atlassian as an anchor in your consolidation roadmap

What You’ll Learn

• The SaaS Landscape: Abundance → Bloat
  • Why 5+ years of easy adoption have left most companies with fragmented, overlapping stacks.
• The Shift: From Cost Cutting to Capability Consolidation
  • How leading organisations are moving beyond slash-and-burn to simplify while strengthening.
• Three Proven SaaS Optimisation Playbooks
  • Application rationalisation, platform consolidation, and renewal-time reviews that keep spend aligned with strategy.
• Atlassian as a Strategic Platform for Consolidation
  • How Atlassian replaces common point tools (Asana, Notion, Zendesk, and more) to reduce fragmentation and deliver consistent workflows.
• Execution Beyond Licenses
  • Why consolidation fails without process mapping, governance and stakeholder alignment, and how partners can bridge the gap.
• Closing Perspective
  • Why SaaS consolidation is a maturity signal, not a cost-cutting exercise, and how to align spend with value.

Who Should Attend

• CIOs, CTOs, and technology leaders under pressure to simplify SaaS spend
• Finance and procurement leaders facing mounting renewal costs
• IT directors, platform owners, and admins tasked with rationalising stacks
• Business and operations leaders looking to boost capability without adding more tools

Why You Should Join

This isn’t just another cost-cutting conversation. It’s a fresh perspective on treating SaaS like infrastructure; consolidating with intent, guided by data, and anchored in strategic platforms.

“Software consolidation isn’t a tooling problem, it’s an operating model upgrade.” – Steve Baker