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Whether you’re looking to understand the key differences between a licence and a contract or searching for the most popular SaaS tools, this section provides actionable insights that empower decision-makers.

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How to Choose the Best Internal Communication Tools for your Team

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.
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5 CRM Best Practices for Better Seat Management

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.
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Your Guide to Cutting Software Costs in 2023

Save money and become more efficient by cutting your software costs using our complete guide.
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Payroll Automation: Should I Automate Payroll? [Pros & Cons + Best Tools]

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.
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How to Choose the Right eSignature and Contract Management Software

Here are our top three contract management and eSignature software according to our data
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9 Software Management Best Practices to Streamline Your IT

Here's how to manage your software investments effectively.
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Key Features of SaaS Management Platforms

A good SaaS management platform gives businesses the tools to manage software from end to end
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How Software Management Helps Startup COOs Scale Operations

Ensure that the tools powering your business drive real value.
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The SaaS Roundup: August

SaaS insights that help you make better business decisions.
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The SaaS Roundup by Cledara

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Still Going Strong: 3 Insights About the SaaS Market in Q2 2022

We dug into the data on B2B SaaS purchasing to see what’s really going on.
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How are Startups Spending Their Software Budget?

Use the insights from Cledara's dataset to benchmark your company's software spending.
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How to Cancel LinkedIn Premium Subscriptions

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.
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New research: Why SaaS convenience is a double-edged sword

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.
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The Dark Side of SaaS: Part 2

In this second of our two-part blog, we dig into the “dark side” of the flexibility, choice and freedom SaaS affords.
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The Dark Side of SaaS - Part One: 20 Years After Salesforce

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?
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The Hidden Costs of SaaS [+ 3 Ways to Avoid Them]

Discover the hidden costs of your SaaS stack and learn 4 best practices to avoid them.
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How Fintech is Powering Vertical SaaS

How vertical markets benefit from embedded finance
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The Evolution of SaaS Distribution: Insights from Cledara's data

What our data says about software distribution models and what it means for SaaS founders.
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Which SaaS helped us scale? A chat with global charity, Project Access

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
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Covid's impact on SaaS: 5 months in

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How do tech companies spend their software budget?

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.
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A quarter of startups use 45+ SaaS apps

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).
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