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SaaS Showdown
by SaaS Showdown
Managing SaaS can be challenging, but it doesn’t have to be. SaaS Showdown teaches you how to manage SaaS at your organization while staying sane. Introducing our amazing hosts, Colin McCarthy and Rose Layton, both rockstars in the tech community, as well as experts in managing IT and especially SaaS. Learn more about the show at www.saasshowdown.com
Episodes
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Shadow AI In Your Org Is A Major Problem
Join us as we dive into a timely conversation about AI's expanding role in the workplace and the challenges it presents for IT teams. From shadow IT to multi-year agreements, we discuss how businesses are adapting to AI's integration into everyday tools like Google Workspace and Microsoft Office...
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Are You Sure You Know Who Has Access? How To Manage Data Exposure in Your SaaS Environment
Join us as we talk SaaS security with DoControl on SaaS Showdown! In this episode, we sit down with Matt, Director of Cloud Alliances at DoControl, to dive into the rapidly evolving world of SaaS Security Posture Management. Get insights on how DoControl is helping businesses manage data exposure...
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Essential Guide to Acceptable Use Policies in Modern Organizations
Join Colin McCarthy and Rose Layton in this episode of SAAS Showdown as they dive deep into the importance of Acceptable Use Policies (AUPs) for businesses. Discover why having a well-structured AUP is crucial for organizational success, especially in today's rapidly evolving tech landscape. 🔍...
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Global Tech Meltdown: Airlines, Hospitals, and TV Networks Brought to Their Knees | Special SaaS Showdown
In this special episode of SaaS Showdown, we dive into the catastrophic global technology outage that has paralyzed airlines like Delta and United, banks, 911 call centers, and even TV networks. Join hosts Rose Layton and Colin McCarthy and special guest Jesse Nowlin as they break down the events...
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What are Citizen Developers and Why Are They More Common Than You Think?
Join us as we explore the booming trend of Low Code and No Code tools and the rise of citizen developers. From the implications of these tools on IT and productivity, we dive deep into how non-developers are transforming workflows without writing a single line of code. Learn about the benefits,...
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The REAL Security Risks of Cloud Collaboration: Nira Founders Reveal All
The founders of Nira, a leading cloud security platform, reveal the shocking security risks companies face in the age of cloud collaboration. From personal accounts to accidental sharing, hear real-world examples and learn how Nira helps keep your data safe. Enjoy and as always, Like and…
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More Conferences! We Used AI to Generate a Custom Song, discuss advancements to Chatbots and more
Welcome to Season 5 of our podcast! In this episode, Colin and Rose now have a completely AI generated theme song! Well it's not our official song but it is hysterical and actually not that bad. See what's possible with AI Generators. Also we discuss recent conferences because somehow it's...
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Season 5 Premier! SaaS Management Consolidation - Who's buying whom and what does that mean for you?
Welcome to Season 5 of our podcast! In this episode, Colin and Rose dive into the recent acquisition of G2 Track by BetterCloud, two prominent players in the SaaS management platform space. Join us as we discuss the implications of this acquisition, the shift towards cross-departmental SaaS...
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Women in SaaS: Challenges, Advice, Diversity (or lack of), Security, AI, and Learning From Mistakes
Joining our hosts Rose Layton and Colin McCarthy is Sr IT Manager Colleen Alaimo, to discuss the challenges and landscape of being a woman in IT, especially in SaaS Management. The industry has changed many times over the years, and even with all the progress that has been made, we still rarely…
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A Year with ChatGPT: Has It Helped Us At All?
Curious about how AI can level up your work and life? Colin and Rose share their hands-on experiences with tools like ChatGPT, Duet, Bard, and Copilot. Learn how AI helps with email drafts, chat summaries, and even creating images. Discover its potential (and its limits) and get tips for making…
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Identity Crisis! What to do When Your Secure Identity Provider is Breached
Recently there have been a series of targeted attacks where the companies that we trust to keep the rest of our logins safe have come under fire. Attackers are increasing their skills and approaches every day, and unfortunately some of them still manage to get through even the most secure…
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The Winner of Conference Season is... AI!
Conference season is always a flurry of announcements and crazy travel all while trying not to get sick from sharing a room with 18000 other people. In this episode we look back at this past conference season and recap the things we learned while looking forward to this years coming season. Enjoy...
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How a SaaS Management Platforms SaaS Manager Managed SaaS in a SaaS Management Platform 🤣
Absolutely fantastic and hilarious episode with Brian Farrell (now) from Dropbox. At the time of recording Brian was mid jobhunt, and has now happily landed at Dropbox, congrats Brian! 🎉 I lost count of how many times the word SaaS was used, but that is appropriate for this conversation. Enjoy!...
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SSPM: What The Hell Is SaaS Security Posture Management??
SSPM, CSPM, good lord make the acronyms stop! Even the meaning doesn't make much sense. SaaS applications are growing up and maturing as a category and as we mature, we get more complex, and with more complexity comes more security issues. Join us for another amazing episode discussing how to…
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Job Hunting in SaaS-Forward IT: How to Find the Job That Works for You
Join our hosts as they discuss their recent journeys job hunting, and how they narrowed the playing field of which companies they actually wanted to work at by using some clever investigating tools. In this week's episode, they discuss how they do it, what to look for, and as always if you can…
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Enterprise Browser Security with Surf Security CTO Ziv Yankowitz
Welcome back to SaaS Showdown! Whole new season, same amazing hosts, and a whole bunch of awesome new content coming your way. In this weeks episode we talk to the CTO and CoFounder of Surf Security discussing options for securing your enterprise at the Browser and how that's different than VPN…
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Taking Another Look At SaaS Management Platforms: Are They Worthwhile?
Welcome back to SaaS Showdown! Whole new season, same amazing hosts, and a whole bunch of awesome new content coming your way. In this weeks episode we take another look at the SaaS Management market, new players, and is it better to build or buy? Enjoy and as always, drop your questions and...
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Gen AI and the Rise of AI Chatbots
Welcome to the last episode of Season 3 of SaaS Showdown! It has been a tumultuous season in the world of SaaS with layoffs, mergers, consolidations, and more. We appreciate you coming back to us for each episode, and look forward to the next season! Enjoy and as always, drop your questions and...
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Incident Response: What should you do when hit with Ransomware?
It's a Friday afternoon, you are headed out of town for the weekend for a few quiet days off with the family and your phone starts blowing up. But it's not your work comms, it's your personal accounts, and the people calling are from work saying they have been attacked and everything is down,...
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SaaS Tools and Techniques for Recognizing and Engaging Your Employees
Putting on our management hats a bit here with an episode focusing on SaaS products that help with recognizing and rewarding team members, and the right way to do so. This is a rapid and continuously evolving field that really took off during the pandemic but is rooted in decades of paper…
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How Big Should Your IT Department Be?
How to answer the age old questions: How big should my IT Department be? How many techs do I need? What is the ratio of helpdesk technicians to employees I need to have? These questions have plagued IT Managers and above for decades and finding the answer is never simple. It takes a lot of...
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SaaS Secrets Revealed! What You Should Actually Be Paying For SaaS Products and Why
Listen now for a Masterclass on SaaS Negotiations, how to know what to pay and when to pay, what to ask for, and how to get it. Our special guest this week is literally the guy who tells SaaS companies how much they should charge and which pricing models they should use, and he spills the tea on...
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#SaaS and Cloud Security Posture Management with Special Guest Chris Walker
This episode is jam packed with SaaS Security knowledge and an amazing conversation with our special guest Chris Walker, a Security Doctor at Service Now. Join us as we take a trip down hacker movie memory lane, and fast forward to the latest in information security concepts such as Cloud…
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SaaS Outages: What Happens, How to Prepare, How to Survive, What to Do Afterwards.
When your SaaS provider has an incident and goes down, so does your business. What should you do when this occurs? First of all, take a deep breath. Next, implement the steps discussed in this episode. In this episode, Rose and Colin discuss how to know when a service is down, how to respond, and...
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Enormous layoffs continue as companies react to the economy, and what that means for SaaS companies
Layoffs 😢 Layoffs have affected so many of our friends and colleagues, as we watch the posts on LinkedIn, it is painful to see every round of layoffs happening in near real-time. Our hearts go out to all those who have been let go, and wish you every success at finding your next position. In…
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Welcome to Season 3! 2023 is off to a wonderful start... everyone is STILL getting hacked!
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...
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S2E8: The IT Hippocratic Oath
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...
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S2E8: Secure Your SaaS Applications
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...
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S2E7: SaaS Conference Updates and revisiting Single Pane of Glass management
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...
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S2E6: Sustainable SaaS: What is it and how do you know?
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...
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S2E5: SaaS Management: Who owns that app??
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...
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SaaS Showdown S2E4: SaaS Companies that SUCK
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…
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S2E3: Let’s talk about IT and SaaS Budgets!
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…
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S2E2: Single Pane of Glass, and despite best efforts.... email is totally not dead
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...
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S2E1: Document Collaboration and introducing SaaSOps Cat!
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...
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S1E9: Hybrid Working and SaaSOps
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...
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S1E8: Sources of Truth
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...
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S1E7: Using SaaSOps - Proper Off-boarding and Deprovisioning
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…
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S1E6: SaaS Management - SaaSOps Platforms
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...
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S1E5: SaaS Management - Spend and Discovery
$$$$ 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...
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S1E4: SaaS Management - Overview and Identity Management
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...
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S1E3: Choosing a SaaS Application
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...
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S1E2: What is SaaSOps?
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!...
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S1E1: What is SaaS?
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...
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SaaS Showdown Teaser
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,...
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Managing SaaS can be challenging, but it doesn’t have to be. SaaS Showdown teaches you how to manage SaaS at your organization while staying sane. Introducing our amazing hosts, Colin McCarthy and Rose Layton, both rockstars in the tech community, as well as experts in managing IT and especially SaaS. Learn more about the show at www.saasshowdown.com
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