Companies fret as costs soar for software subscriptions (2019)

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Post by roxanneonhacker » Thu, Mar 05, 2020, 5:00 PM UTC

Companies fret as costs soar for software subscriptions (2019)
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Post by rogerkirkness » Thu, Mar 05, 2020, 5:02 PM UTC

This is almost definitely underspending. Software augmented people are so much more productive than people alone.

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Post by ChrisCinelli » Thu, Mar 05, 2020, 5:03 PM UTC

And after the consumer market even SaaS software is getting to a saturation point.

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Post by 7777fps » Thu, Mar 05, 2020, 5:27 PM UTC

That's a bargain really, still less than rent.

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Post by ceejayoz » Thu, Mar 05, 2020, 5:27 PM UTC

ChrisCinelli wrote: post #3

And after the consumer market even SaaS software is getting to a saturation point.

Time for a "manage your SaaS subscriptions" SaaS.

(I'm fairly sure this exists, actually.)

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Post by wdb » Thu, Mar 05, 2020, 5:30 PM UTC

And then you end up with things like Teams or Slacks which needs a tool like Things and Notes to keep track of things discussed/agreed. I find Teams and Slacks flaky and hard to search

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Post by paxys » Thu, Mar 05, 2020, 5:31 PM UTC

ceejayoz wrote: post #5

ChrisCinelli wrote: post #3

And after the consumer market even SaaS software is getting to a saturation point.

Time for a "manage your SaaS subscriptions" SaaS. (I'm fairly sure this exists, actually.)

There are tons of such services.

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Post by paxys » Thu, Mar 05, 2020, 5:33 PM UTC

If you are already spending >$200K per employee, spending another $10K to make them even 10% more productive is a bargain.

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Post by duxup » Thu, Mar 05, 2020, 5:35 PM UTC

For some situations whatever the given SaaS is ... that is that given department's business.

I wonder if this isn't as much as "is it done on a computer... probabbly a SaaS involved" and ... how many people aren't doing their business on a computer?

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Post by zsandwich » Thu, Mar 05, 2020, 5:36 PM UTC

Crazy. Seems that a lot of these tools are purchased by single departments and poorly integrated into rest of the org—creating more chaos and thus need for more tools.