Case Study: Stendahls optimizes SaaS licenses and improves cost control with Substly

Stendahls optimise its licenses and improves cost control

Stendahls, a large Swedish advertising agency, faced a significant challenge in managing its many software subscriptions and recurring IT costs. After testing numerous solutions and even attempting to build their own, the company struggled with an inefficient, hard-to-understand Excel sheet containing over 1,000 lines of data. Seeking better control and potential savings, Stendahls turned to the vendor Substly and its SaaS management platform.

By implementing Substly, Stendahls gained a complete overview of all digital services and users, allowing them to optimize licenses and identify unnecessary expenditures. The solution’s flexibility enabled tracking of various recurring costs, including data center maintenance. A key measurable result was the discovery of a single cloud service that had been purchased 11 times across different departments, representing a potential saving of tens of thousands of euros. Substly provided the tools for Stendahls to achieve superior cost control and plans to roll the platform out across its entire 1,500-employee corporate group to find further synergies.

Stendahls

Krister Laag

Chief Information Officer