How big is your tech stack, really? Here’s the latest data…
It’s springtime, in the Northern hemisphere, and tech stacks are blooming.
Zylo, a SaaS management platform that manages over 30 million SaaS licenses for its customers — more $30 billion in SaaS spend under management — just released their 2023 SaaS Management Index report. It shares aggregate statistics across all of their customers’ SaaS tech stacks.
Importantly, this is not survey data, where people guess how many app jellybeans are in their tech stack jellybean jar. (People consistently underestimate the real count.) This is hard, empircal data of actual SaaS subscriptions. The ground truth. Or, I suppose, the cloud truth.
What does the data reveal?
Even in the face of app consolidation and budget constraints, SaaS tech stacks are still large. The average small business with 500 or fewer employees has 172 apps. Mid-market companies between 501 and 2,500 employees have 255 apps on average. And, as you might expect, it’s more than twice that for large enterprises, an average of 664 apps.