Data silos.
You know it’s a problem, you just need the right solution.
What steers data silos?
Right now, organizations with more than 1,000 employees use over 150 different SaaS applications.
Why?
Have they ever considered the impact this has on cost, compliance, and productivity?
It's not often a positive one.
This culture of proliferated adoption can fragment your tech infrastructure, so it’s time to pause, take a moment, and realign your business to ensure software is firstly needed, and secondly, does indeed prove beneficial for long-term growth.
Right, let’s explore app accumulation and how this phenomenon can derail entire organisations, without them even realising.
You have 100 employees.
If they each had access to Slack, Trello, DropBox, and DocuSign, your business could be handed a bill upwards to $9,508 per month.
Now consider how you don’t really need any of them.
What you really need is one app that does everything.
One Workiro licence costs $39 per user, which equates to $3,900 per month, and gives these 100 staff unlimited access to the same e-signatures you get from DocuSign, the same instant chats you get from Slack, the very same file sharing you get with DropBox, and the very same task management you get from Trello.
More than 50% instantly wiped off businesses expenses each month without losing any of your operational performance.
Now think about this from a NetSuite perspective.
You invested in this software most likely for its ‘single source of truth’.
So, why has this premise not been extended outside your module?
If employees outside NetSuite are collaborating with you during an audit, can you imagine the headache from chasing Slack communication and hunting down files locked away in DropBox, all because they’re not sitting alongside key finance records in NetSuite.
Also consider this likely scenario.
Your finance team has been given Salesforce licenses just so they can communicate with the sales department.
Enterprise licences cost $151.63 per user each month – just four licenses will now tip your monthly software expense over the $10k mark.
Seems a hefty price to pay for what are sometimes a handful of exchanges each week.
What you really need is software that consolidates everything steered by fellow employees through the same app, and making sure this speaks only to NetSuite, forming a coherent trail of action – another ‘single source of truth’.
*Prices accurate on 14.06.2023
DocuSign (Business Pro) $40 per user
Slack (Business+) $12.32 per user (Roughly converted)
Trello (Enterprise) $17.50 per user
DropBox (Enterprise) $25.26 per user (Roughly converted)