Two merging organizations routinely run duplicate SaaS platforms — separate CRMs, competing project management tools, redundant collaboration suites, and overlapping analytics platforms. RLM inventories every SaaS subscription, identifies the overlap, and builds the rationalization plan that eliminates redundant spend.
RLM provides independent, vendor-neutral advisory that gives deal teams and integration leaders the technology clarity they need to make informed decisions and execute with confidence.
We use financial records, SSO logs, and endpoint data to build a complete SaaS inventory across both organizations — capturing every subscription, its users, cost, contract terms, and the business function it serves.
We map SaaS tools against business functions to identify where both organizations use different products for the same purpose — CRM, ERP, HRIS, project management, communication, and every other software category.
We analyze actual usage data to distinguish between actively-used subscriptions and shelfware — identifying tools with low adoption, unused licenses, and subscriptions that can be eliminated regardless of consolidation decisions.
We evaluate competing SaaS platforms across both organizations — feature coverage, user adoption, integration depth, data portability, and contract position — to recommend which platform survives in each functional category.
We quantify the total savings opportunity from SaaS rationalization — duplicate subscription elimination, license right-sizing, volume discount leverage, and the contract negotiation opportunities created by combined user counts.
We build the phased rationalization plan — which subscriptions to cancel immediately, which require data migration, which need user training, and the sequence that minimizes disruption while maximizing savings velocity.
Start with a no-cost SaaS audit — we'll inventory every subscription across both organizations and quantify the overlap.
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