Calero Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SaaS Management Platforms

Recognition reflects Calero’s deep SaaS management expertise, FinOps leadership, and operational excellence, affirming what enterprise customers have experienced firsthand for years.

ROCHESTER, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Calero, a leading provider of SaaS Management solutions for global enterprises, today announced it has been recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SaaS Management Platforms. To Calero, the recognition reflects a proven ability to help enterprise organizations discover, optimize, and govern their SaaS portfolios, delivering measurable outcomes in cost control, license optimization, renewals discipline, and portfolio governance at global scale.

Gartner evaluated 17 vendors across two dimensions, Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute, and positioned Calero in the Leaders quadrant based on scores across multiple categories, including market understandings, operational depth, and global delivery capabilities. It’s Calero’s position that the evaluation affirms Calero's standing as a platform that enterprise IT, finance, and procurement teams can rely on to manage SaaS complexity with rigor and confidence.

“Calero has been setting the standard for technology expense management for over three decades, and our SaaS Management platform reflects that same commitment to depth, precision, and outcomes,” said Eric Martorano, Calero’s President & CRO. “We are proud to be recognized by Gartner as a Leader. It is an affirmation of what our customers have experienced firsthand and what our team has built. We are intensely focused on continuing to raise the bar.”

Built for the Complexity of Enterprise SaaS

Managing SaaS at the enterprise level is not a spreadsheet problem. It requires a platform with deep discovery capabilities, intelligent license optimization, automated renewal workflows, and the governance controls that IT security and compliance teams demand. Calero's SaaS Management platform delivers all of this, continuously updated on a monthly cadence, with 129 direct application integrations, giving organizations comprehensive, real-time visibility across their entire software portfolio.

What Sets Calero Apart

Calero’s platform strengths cluster where cost and governance converge, with its strongest-rated capabilities in expense management, workflow orchestration, license entitlement optimization, and employee service catalog. The common thread among them is Calero’s commitment to help customers move from Insights to Action. Faster™.

• Expense management. A unified view of SaaS usage and spending to understand what is out there, how it’s being used, and where waste happens.
• Workflow orchestration. No-code automation of the busy work that surrounds the employee and software life cycles, including onboarding and offboarding, role changes, and license assignment and reclamation.
• License entitlement optimization. Going beyond visibility to actively eliminate waste through automated recommendations, policy controls, and automation to right-size entitlements based on actual usage and business needs.
• Employee service catalog. A self-service experience that lets employees find and request approved applications, giving the business an easy path to the tools it needs while IT retains visibility and governance over the portfolio.

Together, these capabilities reduce costs and enable governance at scale, giving buyers a single source of truth for SaaS spend and earning Calero a place in the Leader quadrant.

Why SaaS Management Leadership Matters Now

The stakes around SaaS management have never been higher. Gartner projects that through 2028, organizations that fail to attain centralized visibility and coordinate SaaS life cycles will overspend on SaaS by at least 25%, due to unused entitlements and unnecessary, overlapping tools. Through 2028, over 70% of organizations will centralize SaaS application management using a SaaS management platform (SMP), an increase from less than 30% in 2025.

For enterprise organizations navigating this inflection point, having the right platform and the right partner matters. Calero delivers both.

What This Means for Calero’s FinOps Focus

Calero is pleased to see FinOps included as a primary use case in the Gartner evaluation, a new inclusion to the report in 2026. Once a practice exclusive to governing cloud spend, FinOps is emerging as a discipline for governing all consumption-driven technology spend, including SaaS. FinOps is a key foundation of Calero’s unified approach to technology spend management, and its inclusion in the report is further evidence to Calero that the discipline carries across spend domains.

“As SaaS economics moves away from predictable seat-based pricing to more dynamic consumption and hybrid models, Calero sees SaaS as the next logical domain of FinOps,” said Stephanie Day, VP of SaaS Management at Calero.

Enterprise-Grade Security and Compliance, Built In

For global enterprise organizations with complex regulatory obligations, Calero provides the security posture and compliance assurance that procurement and legal teams require, without compromise. This includes enterprise-grade, globally scaled security features like GDPR compliance, SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27000, and multi-region data residency options.

Calero's SaaS Management capabilities are part of a broader platform that also addresses telecom expense management, mobility management, and market data spend, giving enterprise organizations a single trusted partner as their technology portfolio management needs evolve.

To learn more about the Calero SaaS Management platform, visit www.calero.com/saas-management.

About Calero

Headquartered in Rochester, NY, Calero is a leading provider of Technology Expense Management, trusted by more than 3,000 customers across 102 countries. Calero’s centralized platform spans telecom management, mobility management, SaaS management, and market data management – helping organizations reduce the time between insight and action to improve performance, reduce risk, and optimize technology investments.

Learn more at www.calero.com or follow Calero on LinkedIn.

Gartner Attribution and Disclaimer

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for SaaS Management Platforms, Tom Cipolla, Todd Larivee, Lina Al Dana, June 2026.

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