In our last installment (Part 12) of this series here on Sourcing Innovation (SI), we provided you a list of forty-plus (40+) vendors that could potentially meet your spend analysis needs and help you identify the cost savings, reduction, and avoidance opportunities you have in your organization as well as the best modules to achieve those cost savings, reduction, and avoidance opportunities. The right spend analysis tool properly applied will generate returns that are many orders of magnitude greater than the cost of the tool and will surprise you.
However, some of those best opportunities will be in the “sacred cows” of Marketing, Legal, and SaaS subscriptions. And you probably think you can’t do anything because you don’t have the data, Marketing and Legal won’t let you touch their spend (or give you the detail you need to even analyze it, often because they didn’t collect it), and you have no idea on what SaaS is actually being used and how much you overspend.
the doctor knows this, and knows that you might need custom solutions to manage, and analyze, this spend, so, before we move on and tackle the next module in the Source-to-Pay queue, we’re going to take a brief sidebar and provide you with short lists of vendors that specialize in each area that will collect the data you need — and sometimes even provide you with deep, customized, integrated analytics that provide you with the insights that matter (including the insights that matter on your matter spend) — to enable deep spend analysis, benchmark creation, and opportunity identification.
But first, we have to repeat our disclaimer that, as per the lists of e-Procurement vendors provided in Part 7 and the list of Spend Analysis vendors provided in Part 12, this list is most definitely in no way complete (as no analyst is aware of every company, and neither Marketing nor Legal are the particular domains of expertise of SI), is only valid as of the date of posting (as companies get acquired and go out of business, often without notice), and does not include the broader range of offerings that are available for SaaS Management (including provisioning and cloud management), Marketing (including agency management pure-plays, although DecideWare, for example, does this), or Legal (including contract authoring, management, and clause analysis — although we will cover some of these players when we get to Contract Lifecycle Management [CLM]).
Again, and we can’t say this enough, not all vendors are equal and we’d venture to say that this most definitely applies to the lists below. The companies below are of all sizes (very small to very large), offer different functionality (focussing in on different aspects of Marketing, Legal, and/or SaaS Spend Management), different levels of customization and integration, different types of companion services, focus on different company sizes and/or company types, and integrate with different Source-to-Pay and Enterprise ecosystems.
Do your research, and reach out to an expert for help if you need it in compiling a starting short list of relevant, comparable, vendors for your organization and its specific needs. For a few of these vendors, you may find a write up in the Sourcing Innovation archives, Spend Matters Pro, or Gartner cool vendor write-ups, but for many of these vendors, you’ll have to look beyond your typical sources of information as they are highly specialized and don’t fall into the typical Source-to-Pay bucket. But if you have enough Marketing, Legal, or SaaS spend, they can be highly valuable.
Note that, due to the newness of SaaS spend management, the different marketing and legal needs of every organization, and the high degree of differentiation between many of the solutions below, we are not (yet) defining baseline functionality and instead advising you to do a detailed analysis of your spend, processes, and needs and judge potential solutions based on that. If you need help with that, seek out a pro who can do the (gap) analysis and RFI creation for you.
SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) Subscription Cost Management
| Company | LinkedIn Employees |
HQ (State) Country |
| Beamy | 60 | France |
| BetterCloud | 305 | New York, USA |
| Cledera | 63 | Colorado, USA |
| Flexera | 1026 | Illinois, USA |
| G2 Track | 792 | Illinois, USA |
| Hudled | 8 | Australia |
| NPI Financial | 410 | Georgia, USA |
| Productiv | 139 | California, USA |
| SaaSRooms | 9 | United Kingdom |
| SaaSTrax | ?? | North Carolina, USA |
| Sastrify | 166 | Germany |
| Setyl | 14 | United Kingdom |
| Spendflo | 70 | California, USA |
| Substly | Sweden | |
| Torii | 114 | New York, USA |
| Trelica | 12 | United Kingdom |
| TRG Screen | 179 | New York, USA |
| Tropic | 240 | New York, USA |
| Vendr | 404 | Massachusetts, USA |
| Viio | 18 | Columbia |
| Zluri | 111 | California, USA |
| Zylo | 144 | Indiana, USA |
Legal Spend Management
| Company | LinkedIn Employees |
HQ (State) Country |
| Apperio | 48 | United Kingdom |
| Brightflag | 150 | New York, USA |
| (LexisNexis) CounselLink | 28 | Ohio, USA |
| Fulcrum GT | 158 | Illinois, USA |
| Mitratech TeamConnect | 1119 | Texas, USA |
| Onit | 339 | Texas, USA |
| Ontra | 421 | California, USA |
| Persuit | 100 | New York, USA |
| Thomson Reuters Legal Tracker | ?? | Ontario |
| Tonkean LegalWorks | 76 | California |
| Wolters Kluwer (TyMetrix 360) | ??? | Netherlands |
Marketing (Procurement) Spend Management
| Company | LinkedIn Employees |
HQ (State) Country |
| DecideWare | 27 | Australia |
| HH Global | ?? | United Kingdom |
| Mtivity | 15 | United Kingdom |
| Promost | 68 | Poland |
| RightSpend | 23 | New York, USA |
| SourceIt Market | 6 | Australia |
Onwards to Part 14.