SaaS Insights

In the maze of modern business technology, SaaS renewal management emerges as the strategic compass that helps companies navigate the complex landscape of software subscriptions.

Discover how businesses are navigating AI adoption challenges and uncovering ROI opportunities, with insights and trends from Cledara’s 'AI in 2025: The Data Behind the Hype' report.

From communication powerhouses like Slack to AI innovators like ChatGPT, this comprehensive guide analyzes the 85 most popular SaaS tools of 2024, backed by data from over 1.1 million software purchases across 4,000 vendors.

Managing a diverse SaaS stack can be challenging, but understanding the key differences between vertical and horizontal SaaS is essential for optimizing your company's software strategy.

In 2025, managing a growing SaaS ecosystem requires powerful monitoring tools to optimize performance, enhance security, and ensure efficient software usage across organizations.

Find out how much tech companies are spending on software, trends, spend by size, region, and more with insights from 600+ businesses.

This report aims cuts through the noise and provide a clear picture of AI's current state in the business world. We explore adoption rates, spending patterns, and the value businesses are (or aren't) seeing from their investments. Buckle up – the data might surprise you.

Navigating the crowded landscape of SaaS accounting tools can be overwhelming, but this guide to the top 10 options of 2024 will help you find the perfect fit for your business.

Cledara’s buyer’s guides offer for free all the information needed to make an informed decision when it comes to purchasing software.

According to Cledara’s world-leading data on software purchasing, these are the 20 top SaaS tools for 2023—by spend, by usage and by growth.

All you need to know to set your software stack for scale. Including insights from 400,000+ software purchases and renewals.

Leveraging our world-leading dataset on SaaS purchasing, usage, renewals, and churn we look at the health of the SaaS market, the purchasing differences between small and large organizations, new annual purchasing trends, and churn insights.

Cledara can reveal that overall spending on software by companies has increased by 25% over the past 12 months. Uncover more spending patterns in the software market, the evolving role of finance teams, and the top emerging software applications.

Software as a Service (SaaS) is a cloud computing model that allows users to access applications over the Internet. But there's far more to it - find out here.

Wondering if it's time to adopt a Cloud Management Platform? Here's everything you need to know before investing.

We dug into our data to see what we could learn about the 300 most successful SaaS companies in 2023.

Discover the latest insights on AI adoption in the business world, as Cledara reveals the top 150 AI-powered SaaS products used by startups to improve efficiency and drive growth.

Discover the latest insights into the Q1 2023 SaaS market, including the growth in software spend, top growing software categories, and the most popular new software applications in March.

Cledara is recognized as a top player in the fight against inefficiency and sprawl in the SaaS industry in Bessemer Venture Partners' State of the Cloud 2023 report.

Fight software price rises and stay proactive in managing your SaaS subscriptions to get the most bang for your buck.

In February 2023, software spend decreased by 3.7%, despite a 21% yearly increase. Cledara found that IT and security software had the highest increase.

Unsure about how to tackle hidden software used throughout the company? You're not alone.

Get SaaS & subscription market insights from ProfitWell's Patrick Campbell. Learn growth and retention strategies, prioritize your team, optimize pricing, & reduce churn.

Latest data from Cledara reveals a rebound in software spend for 2023, driven by larger startups increasing their spend after adapting to economic conditions.

Rethinking your cloud spending as you grow? In this guide, we share everything you need to know to reduce hosting costs without affecting your users' experience.

Has the price of your SaaS subscriptions gone up? Discover SaaS subscription management strategies to keep your budget in check.

Data from Cledara reveals companies are adapting to the economic downturn by saving on software spend.

Looking for the best cold email tool? In this post, we compare two of the most popular options for growing companies: Reply vs. Hunter.

Looking for a Jira project management alternative? In this post, you'll discover our top 5 Jira alternatives & how to find the best tool for your dev team.

Looking for AI SaaS tools to improve your scaleup's processes? In this guide, you'll learn what you need to know to implement AI for sales, marketing, and more.

Rethinking your sales stack? This guide covers everything you need to know to choose the best CRM for your startup.

Curious about the future of the SaaS industry? In this post, we’ll share key SaaS stats that will help you make the right decisions in 2023.

Planning to change your team's messaging tool? In this post, we explain how internal communication tools affect your processes and how to choose the right one.

Is your CRM getting out of budget? In this post, we share 5 CRM best practices that will help you improve seat management and reduce tool redundancy.

Save money and become more efficient by cutting your software costs using our complete guide.

Wondering if you should automate payroll, and how to make it work for your startup? This payroll automation guide is exactly what you're looking for.

Here are our top three contract management and eSignature software according to our data

Here's how to manage your software investments effectively.

A good SaaS management platform gives businesses the tools to manage software from end to end

Ensure that the tools powering your business drive real value.

SaaS insights that help you make better business decisions.

SaaS insights that help you make better business decisions.

We dug into the data on B2B SaaS purchasing to see what’s really going on.

Use the insights from Cledara's dataset to benchmark your company's software spending.

Here's a step-by-step guide on how to cancel someone's LinkedIn Premium subscription. Warning: it’s not as easy as you might think.

Our new research reveals that companies’ challenges tracking and managing SaaS applications can lead to wider problems. So what are they – and how can they be fixed? Read on to find out.

In this second of our two-part blog, we dig into the “dark side” of the flexibility, choice and freedom SaaS affords.

In this two-part blog, we tackle a topic 20 years in the making: Has all this SaaS piling up around us actually holding businesses back now?

Discover the hidden costs of your SaaS stack and learn 4 best practices to avoid them.

How vertical markets benefit from embedded finance

What our data says about software distribution models and what it means for SaaS founders.

We check in with Project Access' Director of Finance and Legal to learn more about the SaaS they are using to scale a global organisation

Cledara automatically classifies SaaS purchased into one of more than 70 different categories. This helps people understand what SaaS is available in their company, CIOs to understand the structure of their company’s SaaS stack and it creates a rich set of data for us to understand how companies apportion their software budget across different types of tools.

When I was trying to understand the potential addressable market for Cledara, I spent quite some time looking at market studies and articles about Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).