SaaS Showdown

Welcome to 2023, we're back and better than ever! In this episode we recap some of the crazy things that happened in SaaS over the break and look toward the rest of our season. We have some amazing things planned including our new brand, editing style, guests, and more! Enjoy and as always, drop your questions and comments about all things SaaS in the comments. Google Next has been announced Lastp...

This is one of our best episodes yet! Learn all about securing your SaaS with special guest Bert Smith.  In today's world, there are tons of ways to "secure" yourself and your applications but which ones are actually effective? Not only that, but even if you lock down one system, that doesn't mean attackers cannot get into a different system and social engineer their way into more systems. Jo...

This is one of our best episodes yet! Learn all about securing your SaaS with special guest Bert Smith.  In today's world, there are tons of ways to "secure" yourself and your applications but which ones are actually effective? Not only that, but even if you lock down one system, that doesn't mean attackers cannot get into a different system and social engineer their way into more systems. Jo...

The Fall Conference season roared through September and October, and as it does every year, left numerous updates in its wake. From Google Workspace to Slack, everyone seems to have their own take on a Workspace, and all use the name Workspace! In this episode we also revisit the Single Pane of Glass approach which is more popular than ever. Enjoy! Learn more about SaaS Showdown at https://saassho...

Many companies say they are green but are they actually? Have you ever stopped to think about the tools that you are using and whether they are as concerned about the environment as you are? Perhaps it's time to have a rating system for SaaS Companies so that you can easily understand the true environmental impact of your company. What do you think? Leave your comments below!   Welcome to Dom...

Companies go through cycles of technology management and determining who owns what app can sometimes amount to war. Does marketing own and manage their own apps? What about when marketing needs IT’s help to manage domains or SSO? Does IT get Super Admin access? Or does marketing give up full ownership of their apps to IT? The answer is… it depends. Watch on to find out! Learn more about SaaS Showd...

We love SaaS! But some SaaS companies seriously SUCK. Strategies surrounding inane practices and crazy acquisition sprees turn some of our favorite tools into zombie shells of their former selves in the name of consolidation. Others have UI flaws that seem to be a feature instead of a bug but drive everyone crazy. In this episode, we are not pulling our punches, and this is by no means a complete...

When is the right time to start thinking about a budget? Where in your career do you need to be to start thinking about budgets? Manager? CTO? What is the right size company to start thinking about budgets?  Budgeting season is a great time to figure out what things you are still paying for that you are no longer using. Something not often seen such as internet connections or old applications...

The term single pane of glass has been around for a long time, its origins are rooted in security to be able to monitor systems all in one place. As systems have evolved we now have many applications that are striving to be the one application to rule them all, from Google Workspace, to Slack, to Teams, Zoom, and beyond the collaboration space as well. The problem is, there are many orgs that are...

Welcome to the new season of SaaS Showdown! We have upgraded our setups to enable video show recording so now you can see us in living color! We have a very exciting season lined up covering topics ranging from Document Collaboration to Platform Wars and beyond. Unlike last season we will be releasing our episodes every other week, so be sure to subscribe to the TABGeeks Youtube Channel and click...

You may have noticed, the entire business world has changed thanks to the Pandemic. Many companies have no idea what they are doing next, some have proclaimed they are now full remote first, and others are working to bring everyone back to the office. Regardless of where people work, we can agree that the way we work has changed thanks to SaaS Apps and being able to utiize them to continue working...

Now that you are comfortable with your SaaS setup, it’s time to take it up a notch. One of the biggest problems to watch out with SaaS is having multiple SaaS Apps overlapping and recording duplicates of some data, and not recording other data. What we mean by this is you need to have a single source of truth, one platform that rules them all to make sure that when that app says this person was te...

I quit! You’re fired! Every day, thousands of people leave companies for various reasons and it is our job to make sure that when they leave the building for good, your data and access to your data and systems do not leave with them! In this episode we take you through the process of deprovisioning users, and what to look out for. SaaS Showdown is a new show to help educate and entertain IT Profes...

Now that we have covered choosing, buying, tools for management, and spend management, now lets talk about actually administering your SaaS Apps. Thankfully over the years admin dashboards have vastly improved. In this episode we cover strategies for admining, as well as how you can utilize API’s to bulk admin if your app has that available. SaaS Showdown is a new show to help educate and entertai...

$$$$ Watch out, between sanctioned SaaS Apps, and Shadow IT, SaaS usage can add up very quickly. There are very often, especially in companies that are mainly using on premise legacy type applications, teams of people that have onboarded SaaS apps in their teams only, unknown to the IT Dept. How can we make sure this does not happen? Tune in to find out! SaaS Showdown is a new show to help educate...

Congrats! You have learned what SaaS is, how to choose the right SaaS App for your business, next we will discuss how to manage your SaaS Apps. There are a number of tools you can use, but the important thing is to define and make sure your access control tool or tools are setup properly so that you can ensure that only those who should have access to your applications, actually do. SaaS Showdown...

Wow there are a ton of options out there for just about every type of SaaS application we could think of. Just like there’s an App for that, these days, there's a SaaS app for that. Here are our steps to choosing the right SaaS app for your business and your teams. SaaS Showdown is a new show to help educate and entertain IT Professionals all about using and Managing SaaS Applications. Managing Sa...

What is this new SaaSOps thing I keep hearing about? In this episode, we define SaaSOps and where it came from. Once upon a time, not so long ago, we were all working from on-premise servers in our offices and were locked to our desks. Enter the light at the end of the tunnel, SaaS applications! Now we can free our admins from being chained to the servers in the building, and empower them to contr...

Welcome to our inaugural episode of SaaS Showdown with our expert hosts Colin McCarthy and Rose Layton! Colin and Rose have many years of experience between them with a mix of experiences across SaaS and IT in general. Join us as we work our way through What Is SaaS, all the way through to Hybrid Working, and the future of Work is Saas. SaaS Showdown is a new show to help educate and entertain IT...

Welcome to SaaS Showdown, a new show all about managing SaaS on a day-to-day basis, and managing to stay sane while doing so. Join our hosts Colin and Rose, 2 SaaSOps experts, as they guide you through the wild west world that is SaaS applications, showing you how to manage, select, negotiate, automate, and control your SaaS stack. Special appearances by SaaSOps Cat! Thanks for listening!  ta...