IT Leader’s Checklist for SaaS Lifecycle Management

Checklist

Published June 2025

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Every day and at every moment, IT must smartly manage and secure its SaaS stack, including all SaaS apps, users, files, and budget dollars across the digital workplace.

Driven by explosive SaaS growth and easy adoption from nearly any employee with an email address, your organization is likely drowning in SaaS apps. Some may be dangerous, others benign. Some apps are worth the cost, and others are not. Still other apps are very useful to everyone, others apps totally useless, and many in between.

Without actively managing your SaaS stack, you don’t know. At best, your company endures Shadow IT’s needless spending and operational inefficiencies. At worst, you have security blind spots, adding up to substantial – and unnecessary – financial, operational, and security risk.

While managing and securing the modern enterprise is no easy feat, you can get a handle on your SaaS operations with some key best practices.

Use this handy checklist to start tackling the challenge and steer your SaaS management to securely and efficiently manage your entire digital workplace.