Solving the SaaS Subscription Burden

Date

Aug 25, 2025

Author

Lane Cochrane

Author

Lane Cochrane

Solving the SaaS Subscription Burden

The average company now manages more than 275 SaaS subscriptions, with a single department juggling 87 of its own (Zylo 2025 SaaS Management Index)

These numbers tell a broader story: across companies of every size, SaaS stacks have ballooned into something difficult to control.

It shows in the waste. Zylo’s research finds that 53% of purchased SaaS licenses go unused (Zylo)

For large enterprises, that translates to millions of dollars in sunk costs. For SMBs, the pain can be even more acute. The Cledara 2025 Software Spend Report shows the average SMB wastes 33% of its software spend and nearly half of SMB leaders (45%) say they are overspending on software—a recognition that tools purchased to solve their specific challenges aren’t solving them for their teams. (Cledara)

The operational weight compounds: more subscriptions mean more contracts, SLAs, product roadmaps, and security reviews. And when teams hop around between disconnected tools, context switching costs them valuable time and efficiency. As Zylo notes, “When applications operate in silos, it creates barriers to collaboration, reduces visibility, and makes it harder for organizations to act as one cohesive unit.”

A Better Way

The common “fix” for gaps in workflows has been another subscription, another vendor, another integration. But more isn’t better, just heavier.

Instead, the people who know the problems best, the business practitioners themselves, should be able to build the exact solution they need. Imagine a single platform where teams create and run lightweight, custom solutions. All powered by the same AI engine. All connected. All maintainable.

For large enterprises, this means simplifying sprawling stacks and cutting governance overhead. For SMBs, it means optimizing spend and avoiding the hidden costs of duplication and waste. For everyone, it means tools that fit from day one and evolve as the business does.

The Advantage

Businesses of any size can now shift from chasing partial fits to building their own solutions, no code required. Through natural language , those who know the problem can easily build AI Native applications that work for them. Because every app is built on a single, AI-native foundation, integration is one click easy: workflows flow, data connects, and collaboration becomes natural.

The resultis fewer unused licenses, less SaaS sprawl, and more impact from tools that actually fit.