Blogs

48% of companies were audited by a software vendor in the last 12 months. The exposure is not random: it comes from licence count discrepancies, uncontracted tools, and scope creep that vendors track and you do not. Here is how to get ahead of it.

A SaaS vendor risk assessment is a structured review of every vendor in your portfolio across security, financial stability, data handling, contractual terms, and concentration risk. Here is what it covers and how mid-size companies run one.

Most mid-size companies underestimate how much SaaS spend is running outside their contracts. Here is where it comes from, why AI tools have made it worse, and what to do about it.

Third-party involvement in breaches has reached 48% in 2026. Here is what vendor risk management covers for a mid-size company managing SaaS, cloud, and AI spend, and how to do it without a dedicated risk team. Slug: /blogs/saas-cloud-vendor-risk-guide

A step-by-step guide to renegotiating SaaS and cloud contracts using market data: when to start, what to bring, and how to handle the vendor's response.

Vendor benchmarking is not price comparison. Here's what it actually covers, what the data includes, and how it changes the outcome of a vendor negotiation.

SaaS vendors know what comparable companies pay. Most mid-size companies don't. Here's the information gap that keeps vendor pricing above market.

SaaS and cloud vendors negotiate every day. Most mid-size companies do it quarterly at best. Here's how to close that information gap at every renewal.

A step-by-step guide to building a 12-month SaaS and cloud renewal calendar: what to track, when to engage vendors, and where manual systems break.

A SaaS renewal management system is not a spreadsheet or a calendar reminder. Here's what it covers, why it matters, and when you genuinely need one.

Mid-size companies auto-renew dozens of SaaS contracts each quarter, usually at above-market rates. Here's why it happens and how to change it.

Reactive renewal management costs mid-size companies significantly. Here's what structured SaaS and cloud renewal management looks like in practice.