Your SaaS Portfolio Stopped Growing. The Bill Climbed 8% Anyway.
App counts flattened in 2026, but SaaS spend still rose 8%. The cost driver moved from app sprawl to consumption pricing and AI feature charges.
Category: SaaS Management
Microsoft Turns On Copilot’s Usage Meter by Default October 19, and Your Budget Alert Won’t Cap It
Starting October 19, new Microsoft 365 Copilot Business seats arrive with usage-based billing switched on by default. The Copilot Studio meter bills to your Azure subscription, where a budget alerts...
Finance Can’t See a Third of Your AI Spend. That Makes Shadow AI a Budgeting Problem.
A quarter to a third of enterprise AI spend runs outside IT visibility. Shadow AI stopped being only a security story the moment it became the biggest thing finance cannot see.
HubSpot Now Bills $0.50 a Resolution. Your Seat-Based SaaS Budget Just Broke.
AI agents from HubSpot, Salesforce, Intercom and Zendesk now bill by outcome, not seat. Why per-seat SaaS budgets break, and how to forecast the variable spend.
Cloud Monitoring Costs $124K a Year. AI Workloads Will Double It.
97% of organizations experienced unexpected monitoring costs last year. The average mid-market observability stack costs $124,000 annually, and AI workloads push those numbers 40 to 200 percent...
FinOps for SaaS: How to Apply Cloud Cost Discipline to Your Software Portfolio
90% of FinOps practitioners now manage SaaS. Learn how to apply the Inform, Optimize, Operate framework to your software portfolio and recover 20-35% of wasted spend.