State of SaaS Management 2026

 Where does your team stand? 

We asked practitioners how well they track usage, cost, AI and risk. Only 14% call their practice optimized – see how yours compares.

What you will learn

• Where you stand: how teams score across six maturity dimensions, from Organization (64) to FinOps integration (41), and where the biggest gaps hide.
• Why visibility is the #1 barrier holding teams back, and what 61% are fixing first.
• Where your budget is leaking: about 27% of spend wasted, and about 31% of apps duplicated or overlapping.
• How AI is quietly driving up your SaaS bill, and why most teams can’t even measure the effect.
• Where the real risk sits: shadow IT, offboarding that drags on four days or more, and renewals nobody meant to sign.
• How leading teams allocate cost today, from basic showback (50%) to real unit economics (18%).

SaaS spend you can’t see is SaaS spend you can’t cut, allocate or secure. The State of SaaS Management 2026 maps exactly where that breaks down – visibility, cost, AI spend and risk – across practitioners just like you. See where your team lands against the 46-point average, and what the 14% who’ve cracked it are doing differently.