Case Studies May 24, 2026 • 5 min read

Written by The Spend Shift Editorial Desk

When Acme Corp, a fast-growing engineering firm with 250 employees, connected their Okta SSO directory to **The Spend Shift**, their financial team expected to find a few hundred dollars in monthly waste.

Within 24 hours of running their first automated SaaS audit report, they discovered over **$3,500/month** in waste—translating to **$42,000 in annual recurring savings**. Here is a breakdown of how they did it.

Phase 1: Okta SSO Integration

IT Operations began by linking Okta SSO to The Spend Shift platform. The integration scanned all active developer logins across Slack, Jira, GitHub, and Figma.

**The Discovery:** The scan immediately flagged **28 active GitHub Enterprise seats** and **18 Figma Editor seats** assigned to contractors who had completed their assignments and left the company months prior. Reclaiming these licenses saved **$1,340/month** instantly.

Phase 2: Shadow IT Spend Discovery

Next, Acme Corp linked their corporate card accounts via our QuickBooks ledger sync.

**The Discovery:** The ledger audit exposed **12 separate Zoom subscriptions** and **3 Slack team plans** purchased on employee credit cards for small, isolated projects. By consolidating these users into Acme's primary enterprise contracts, they saved another **$920/month** while securing SOC2 data compliance.

Phase 3: Pruning Inactive Accounts

The Spend Shift set up alerts to flag users who hadn't logged in for >30 days.

**The Discovery:** 32 employees were holding premium Zoom Host licenses ($20/month) but only used basic, free video features. Downgrading these users to free accounts saved **$640/month** without affecting daily productivity.

"We were shocked by how much money was slipping through the cracks. The Spend Shift gave us the exact data we needed to clean up our subscriptions in a single afternoon."
— CFO, Acme Corp

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