Case Study: Qumulo achieves full SaaS visibility and cost savings with Cleanshelf

How Qumulo Manages Their SaaS Apps with Cleanshelf

Qumulo, a 180‑person file storage software company, faced rapid growth and the challenge of managing more than 100 SaaS tools purchased across the business with no central repository or visibility. Lynn Johnson, Director of Business Systems, needed a less invasive, scalable way to track spend, reduce redundancy, and surface security or renewal risks, so the team evaluated and adopted Cleanshelf’s SaaS management platform.

Using Cleanshelf, Qumulo gained immediate visibility into SaaS spend with dashboards and renewal notifications, enabling regular collaborative reviews with department heads and faster budgeting decisions (Lynn could answer a sales onboarding software question in 30 seconds). Cleanshelf has about a dozen active users at Qumulo, lets finance tie ambiguous expense transactions to specific vendors and aggregate spend, surface auto‑renewals, and is being used to load vendor budgets — improving cost consciousness and operational efficiency across the company.

Qumulo

Lynn Johnson

Director of Business Systems