Abstract: A method implemented in a Software as a Service (SaaS) management platform (SMP) is provided, including: providing, over a network, a user interface for rendering by a client device to an employee of a customer of the SMP; receiving, over the network, input from the client device via the user interface, said input identifying a request by the employee for a SaaS application that is one of a portfolio of SaaS applications used by the customer and managed by the SMP; accessing an approval setting stored in association with the SaaS application, the approval setting configured to authorize automated approval of the employee for the SaaS application; responsive to receiving the input, and based on the approval setting, then triggering a single sign-on (SSO) service to provision the employee as a user of the SaaS application.

Abstract: A software as a service (SaaS) management platform, includes: an uploader process for receiving a plurality of contract files relating to purchases of a SaaS application; parsing logic that identifies terms in the plurality of contract files; normalization logic for assigning a normalization SKU to respective contract files based on the terms identified in the respective contract files; a background process that generates anonymized contract data by storing the terms of each contract file in association with the normalization SKU assigned to the contract file in an anonymous manner; a backend process that, responsive to a request from a client device, accesses the anonymized contract data to generate a distribution of terms of the anonymized contract data, generates benchmark data identifying an approximate location of terms of a given customer's contract file within the distribution, and returns the benchmark data to the client device for rendering through a user interface.

Abstract: A method implemented in a software as a service (SaaS) management platform, includes: receiving a plurality of contract files relating to purchases of a SaaS application; identifying terms in the plurality of contract files; assigning a normalization SKU to respective contract files based on the terms identified in the respective contract files; generating anonymized contract data by storing the terms of each contract file in association with the normalization SKU assigned to the contract file in an anonymous manner; responsive to a request from a client device, accessing the anonymized contract data to generate a distribution of terms of the anonymized contract data, generating benchmark data identifying an approximate location of terms of a given customer's contract file within the distribution, and returning the benchmark data to the client device for rendering through a user interface.

Abstract: A method implemented in a Software as a Service (SaaS) management platform (SMP) is provided, including: identifying a plurality of SaaS applications used by a customer of the SMP; receiving, over a network, human resources (HR) data from an HR application, said HR data describing an organization chart of users that are employees of the customer of the SMP; providing, over a network, an administrator interface for rendering through a client device operated by an administrative user of the customer; receiving input from the client device via the administrator interface, said input identifying a given SaaS application and a managerial group within the organization chart; and responsive to receiving said input, then storing an approval setting for the managerial group for the given SaaS application, the approval setting determines whether a user within the managerial group requires approval to enable granting of a license to use the given SaaS application.

Abstract: A method implemented in a Software as a Service (SaaS) management platform (SMP) is provided, including: receiving, over a network, human resources (HR) data from an HR application, said HR data describing an organization chart of employees of a customer of the SMP; identifying a plurality of SaaS applications that are used by the customer of the SMP; receiving, over the network, a request from a client device associated to a given employee of the customer; responsive to the request, then identifying a managerial group within the organization chart of which the given employee is a member, identifying ones of the SaaS applications used by the identified managerial group, and surfacing the identified ones of the SaaS applications in a user interface rendered by the client device as recommended applications for the given employee of the customer.