{"id":4359,"date":"2023-04-20T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.golinks.com\/blog\/?p=4359"},"modified":"2024-10-01T12:18:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T19:18:12","slug":"employee-buy-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golinks.com\/blog\/employee-buy-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Buy In: How to Effectively Track Software Adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In today\u2019s digital era, there\u2019s a software-as-a-service (SaaS) tool that can help with pretty much any pain point your team faces. The problem, of course, is employee buy-in. Not all employees are quick to adopt new tools \u2014 if they do so at all. In fact, at the average organization, a full 40% of applications are underutilized or unused<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And this lack of employee buy-in has repercussions. Not only does the average 1,000-person company waste $1.5 million a year<\/a> on unused licenses, but uneven software adoption can also harm collaboration. When teams operate across too many different tools, employees end up wasting hours a week<\/a> hunting down information across apps, recreating work that already exists, and working within departmental silos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, these issues often go unaddressed at organizations, since many leaders don\u2019t track software adoption. In fact, one poll found that only 5.5% of IT leaders<\/a> report having full visibility into how many employees are actually using their software licenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re among the other 94% of leaders, not to worry: tracking teams\u2019 existing SaaS usage is easier than it seems, and there are many ways to encourage software adoption going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How to effectively track software usage and adoption rates<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Some SaaS tools will allow admins to track employee license usage within their products. Unfortunately, however, the average company has 110 apps<\/a> within their tech stack \u2014 making it nearly impossible for IT managers to routinely track usage on a product-by-product basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, a SaaS spend management solution<\/a> like GoLinks can give you visibility into how frequently every<\/em> SaaS tool in your organization is used, all from a single dashboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GoLinks is a short link tool that primarily helps teams to find, share, and access information using memorable short links called \u201cgo links.\u201d It allows employees to transform unwieldy URLs into short, intuitive go links that link to helpful resources. For instance, at one company:<\/p>\n\n\n\n