VISSA - Vuram's Infrastructure and Software Subscription Advisor

VISSA helps organizations to track and manage their SaaS (Software as a Service) & IaaS(Infrastructure as a Service) subscriptions to control spending, reduce costs and optimize the utilization

• Handling Unoptimized licenses and Inactive licenses
• Disorganized SaaS renewal management
• Increased complexity
• Less user level security
• Lack of visibility/overview of centralized data about subscriptions
• No track on billing and subscription dates
• Enterprises end up paying for unused licenses

• Tool to track active subscriptions, 
• Track license Usage, expiry, who and how they are used, which feature of a software is used mostly
• Integrations with tools to get the user and license details, 
• Identify Potential overlaps,
• Track Payments - how much spend, total savings,
• Smart recommendations on unused, underutilized licenses & instances along with potential savings.
• Single platform to get the comprehensive overview of all the subscriptions with utilization reports.
• Track least used applications, reminders on license expiry and much more

• Integrate SaaS applications, sync up both user and license details via API & RPA 
• Add more information - Payments, Renewals, And more
• Manage connection credentials to integrate with software tool
• Report and Investigate on budget vs spent, usage towards the daily spent threshold, unused licenses, and much more
• Reminders/Alert - Get notified on the license expiry, unused, underutilized.

1. Dashboard/Home page - Right on the landing page you get all the below, 

• Discover  - Add & manage SaaS inventory, Monitor flow of new boarded SaaS & IaaS applications
• Optimize - Eliminate inefficient purchasing, reduce application overlaps and redundancy, Right-size via automated update of user & license details
• Plan -  Forecast future spend with actual utilization data, Renew SaaS apps with data-driven insights, Alert owners to upcoming renewals

• Tailor your license management into the organization fabric by easily defining the departments, User based privileges.
• Centralized license management, you get all software subscription, license, usage and billing details on one platform along with alerts for unused or underutilized subscriptions.
• Analyze reports and data to take managerial decision to leverage optimized usage of software licenses
• Track ROI, Cost optimization and Risk management
• Manage multiple applications both software & infrastructure subscriptions 
• Add users to platforms, allocate and revoke their subscriptions at ease. 
• Improve visibility of subscriptions, spend management and user access.

• Employee help desk, 
• FAQs on billing and renewals
• Security & Compliance
• Invoices & payment integrations
• Virtual cards for instant usage on renewals 
• AI/ML recommendations
• Department & User group management
• Synchronize the user management of platform with software
• Enhanced reports on utilization, spend and user engagement

• Integration with software tools - Some SaaS software provides multiple APIs for user data, some provide separate APIs to get usage or license data. Availability and scope of that API becomes challenging here. 
• Dynamic connection - To establish the connection with VISSA with the third party tools, we have action on our application to ‚ÄúManage connections‚Äù, we are dynamically passing on the connection authentication tokens, every time dynamically connecting is not possible on Appian, it was challenging. The work around will be JWT tokens or go with custom smart services in Appian.