Helping you save on software is in these guys DNA

Lemon.io’s unique proposition includes a vast pool of over 80,000 engineers ready to join projects, with a system in place to match managers with clients through the process. Obviously, their team needs a lot of tools for team collaboration and productivity. Therefore, the company’s main request was to reduce costs for Slack, Atlassian and related tools as much as possible.

As with many engineering-first companies today, cloud costs is always a constraint. It is typically a huge budget item, and hinders teams ability to focus on innovations by experimenting with new tools and emerging technologies.

One of the ways to reduce costs for Google Workspace is to evaluate whether all users need the same subscription plan. After looking into how the licenses are being used at Lemon.io, we found an opportunity to split them into 2 cohorts, decreasing the subscription level for nearly 50% of the employees without any productivity loss. This is possible only if done via an official Google partner, like Spendbase.

Besides optimising the costs, another request our Lemon.io had was to help them set up Microsoft Power BI. As mentioned, Lemon.io is a Google shop, so they had little experience working with Microsoft products, unlike the Spendbase team.