We co-hosted this session with CostRoom on 9 September 2026. Luvkush Tiwari covered the purchase decision: contract term, seat count against real utilization, and plan tier. Suhas Reddy covered visibility: idle cloud resources, inactive SaaS accounts, and license utilization on one screen. The session closed with a 90-day sequence and a live Q&A.
Cloud and SaaS bills keep rising without new purchases. Flexera measured 29% of cloud spend as wasted in 2026, the first increase in five years. Average annual SaaS spend rose 8% year over year while the application count held flat, down 0.07%. SaaS renewal prices rose 16.4% in the year to June 2026. Three years of cloud and license spend get decided in one meeting. Fewer than half of organizations use any commitment discount with any cloud provider. One steel manufacturer right-sized a fixed 500-user Data Center band to actual use and cut annual Atlassian licensing costs by 43%. Visibility comes before the decision about what to cut. The 90-day sequence assigns an owner, a review schedule, and the thresholds that trigger action.
