Certero for SaaS Shadow IT

Discover the SaaS apps in use across your organization. Define SaaS policy and manage subscriptions. Optimize costs, minimize risks and secure your data with Certero for SaaS Shadow IT.

Tackling Shadow IT

Shadow IT can result in unmanaged spend, security risks, and data breaches—all due to a lack of visibility and control. Without knowing what software is being used, where, and by whom, businesses face compliance issues and miss opportunities to streamline costs.

Certero for SaaS Shadow IT solves this by using unique browser interrogation technology (covering Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Opera) to discover web-based SaaS applications in use across your organisation.

Once discovered, SaaS apps are accurately identified, categorised by business purpose, and assessed for risk or value. You can assign ownership, align them with your software policy, and clearly separate approved and disallowed apps. This holistic approach helps regain control, ensures only the right tools are used, and protects sensitive business data—all while reducing unnecessary software costs.

One platform, endless possibilites

How Certero for SaaS Shadow IT works for you…

Understand your SaaS apps

Over 35,000 web apps are automatically categorized within Certero for SaaS Shadow IT, helping you to understand what’s out there, what apps are for & why the business has a need. See where application rationalization could be more efficient, gain insight into what users really want & highlight potential risks to your organization.

Reduce overheads

Have your ITAM function stop spending time updating spreadsheets and hunting down contracts. Certero for SaaS can streamline the capture of important SaaS data such as license entitlements, cost, and product function, then display what you need to see within a single pane of glass.

Apply governance to SaaS apps & data

Assign ownership of applications at a stakeholder, line-of-business or global level. Gain insight into usage & costs for web apps & define SaaS policies that work for your business.

Manage your costs

Certero for SaaS Shadow IT provides a flexible framework for IT, SAM and Procurement teams to identify savings and quantify the impact of their efforts in a way that is tailored to their unique needs.

View discovered SaaS applications

Data normalization creates meaningful SaaS application lists from captured web activity.

Cut through the noise & highlight risks

Identify the SaaS applications that pose the greatest cost & security concerns.

Tag SaaS apps, build understanding & ownership

Create user-defined tags for SaaS applications, for simplified reporting on ownership & adoption.

Explore SaaS activity across major web browsers

Including Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox + more.

Manage the SaaS your business needs

Attribute active subscriptions to applications, for centralized visibility of licensing.

Identify unwanted website activity

Understand website access in-line with governance policies.

Benefits of Certeo SaaS Shadow IT

Automatically bring SaaS apps into view—stop spending time updating spreadsheets and hunting down contracts.
Centrally capture important SaaS data such as entitlements, costs, and product function.
Stay secure—apply and enforce software security policies to web applications.
Reduce costs—understand need, procure more efficiently and cut costs of unnecessary / unwanted software.
Manage all cloud applications and take back control of company data.