Subscriptions
The Subscriptions pages in SaaS show consolidated data for your SaaS subscriptions. Use these pages to gain visibility and to find cost optimization opportunities.
Description
The Subscriptions pages show consolidated data for all discovered and manually added subscriptions in your SaaS estate, based on the discovery sources that you connect to and the cost, duration, and quantity information that you add. The Subscriptions page shows all usage metrics for your paid and free subscriptions. The Subscriptions cost page shows all costs related to your paid subscriptions. Select a subscription to view the users and optimization opportunities for that subscription.
Vendors often license and sell their SaaS applications using a subscription model. A subscription is a legally valid agreement with a vendor that entitles you to use a SaaS application for a specific period of time. Subscriptions can also be called SKUs, subscription plans, licenses, license plans, or entitlements, depending on the vendor. Subscriptions are usually billed regularly and renewed until cancelled. A vendor can offer subscriptions for single applications or for a combination of applications.
Subscription management
Subscriptions are primarily added to the system through the discovery sources that you connect to, but you have to add cost, duration, and sometimes quantity data manually. If you have subscriptions that cannot be discovered, you can add them manually and also add users to them. For more information, see Manage SaaS subscriptions.
Characteristics
Consolidated data is presented in indicators, charts, insights, and tables. For table column descriptions, see SaaS tables — Reference.
There are multiple filtering options on the pages, see Filters for more information.
Subscriptions
The Subscriptions page shows all usage metrics related to your subscriptions.
Type | Description |
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Indicators | The indicators show information for the current month:
Subscriptions marked as Free are excluded from the indicators. |
Chart | The Subscriptions usage chart shows a monthly breakdown of subscription numbers for all types of user activity and unassigned subscriptions. Subscriptions marked as Free are excluded from the chart. |
Table | The table lists all your SaaS subscriptions, including subscriptions marked as Free, and their usage metrics in relevant applications. For table column descriptions, see SaaS tables — Reference. |
Subscriptions cost
The Subscriptions cost page shows all costs related to your subscriptions.
Subscriptions marked as Free are excluded from the indicators, chart, and table on this page.
Type | Description |
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Indicators | The indicators show cost information for the current month:
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Chart | The Subscriptions cost chart shows a monthly breakdown of costs for active users and subscriptions where application activity is not monitored, and the total potential savings. |
Table | The table lists all your SaaS subscriptions and their relevant cost metrics. For table column descriptions, see SaaS tables — Reference. |
Subscription
The individual subscription page shows details, users, and optimization opportunities for the subscription.
Tab | Type | Description |
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Details | Info | The tab show the details for the subscription. For field descriptions, see Details. |
Insights | Indicators | The indicators show essential information about the subscription:
Subscriptions marked as Free show no indicators. |
Insights | Chart | The Subscription costs chart shows a monthly breakdown of costs for active users, cost for users where application activity is not monitored, and potential savings. Subscriptions marked as Free show no chart. |
Insights | Insights | The Insights detail the optimization opportunities for the subscription. Subscriptions marked as Free show zero potential savings on the insights. |
Insights | Table | The table lists all your consolidated SaaS users, and their activity in relevant applications, for the subscription. For table column descriptions, see SaaS tables — Reference. |