Boza × Pennylane: taking back control of your hidden software costs
- Noham Layani
- Feb 3
- 3 min read
Updated: Feb 3
Are your apps still working for you… or against you?
CRM, marketing tools, HR software, finance apps, no-code platforms, internal tools, analytics solutions. As companies grow, their SaaS stack grows even faster.
Most SMEs don’t actively decide to build a complex application ecosystem. It just happens — team after team, tool after tool, subscription after subscription.
The result is almost always the same:
unused licenses, overlapping tools,
forgotten subscriptions,
recurring costs no one fully tracks.
This phenomenon has a name: Shadow IT. For SMEs generating €500K+ in revenue — especially those scaling internationally — Shadow IT represents thousands (sometimes tens of thousands) in hidden annual costs.And more importantly, it creates a blind spot in financial decision-making.
This is exactly the problem Boza was built to solve. And with its recent integration with Pennylane, Boza becomes a powerful lever for companies looking to bring SaaS spending back under financial control.
What exactly is Boza?
Boza is a SaaS management platform designed for SMEs and scale-ups.
Its goal is not to replace your tools — but to give you a clear, centralized view of every application your company is actually using.
Boza helps answer questions that most growing companies struggle with:
Which tools do we use today?
How much do they really cost each month and each year?
Who is using them?
Which tools are redundant or underutilized?Where are the financial and operational risks?
In short, Boza turns your SaaS stack from an uncontrolled expense into a managed business asset.
Why SaaS sprawl has become a major financial issue
For years, SaaS subscriptions were considered “small expenses.”That is no longer true.
In the companies Blendy supports, SaaS spending is often:
one of the fastest-growing cost lines,
spread across teams and geographies,
rarely reviewed at a global level,
poorly connected to accounting and financial reporting.
International growth makes the issue even worse:distributed teams, local tools, subscriptions purchased in different currencies, no centralized validation process.
Without a dedicated solution, SaaS sprawl becomes impossible to govern.
Boza addresses this by bringing visibility, structure, and accountability where there is usually fragmentation.
What Boza delivers in practice
A clear, complete map of your SaaS stack
Boza provides a real-time inventory of all applications in use — by team, function, cost, and usage.
No more approximate audits or outdated spreadsheets.
Your SaaS stack becomes visible, measurable, and reviewable.
Real control over SaaS spending
By identifying unused licenses, duplicate tools, and low-value subscriptions, Boza enables companies to:reduce unnecessary costs,renegotiate contracts,make informed decisions about which tools truly create value.
For growing SMEs, this often results in immediate margin improvement, without impacting revenue or operations.
Reduced risk from Shadow IT
Boza helps limit:unapproved software purchases,forgotten subscriptions after employee departures,security and compliance blind spots.
This makes SaaS governance a financial, operational, and risk-management win.
Boza × Pennylane: connecting SaaS governance with financial reality
The integration between Boza and Pennylane adds a critical dimension: financial alignment.
By connecting SaaS management to accounting data, companies can:
reconcile subscriptions with actual expense lines,
understand the true weight of SaaS in operating costs,
eliminate discrepancies between perceived and real spending,
improve budget accuracy and forecasting.
From Blendy’s perspective, this is essential:👉 a tool only creates value if it fits into a global financial picture.
Boza brings visibility. Pennylane brings reliability. Together, they enable real financial governance.
Let's take an exemple : A fast-growing tech company with 80 employees, operating across several countries, uses more than 60 SaaS tools.
Before Boza:
no global view of tools,
historical subscriptions never reviewed,
SaaS costs growing faster than revenue.
After implementing Boza × Pennylane:
a clear SaaS inventory,
duplicate tools removed,
immediate cost reduction,
stronger internal discipline for onboarding new tools.
The result: lower hidden costs, better financial control, and more confidence in decision-making.
Why Blendy recommends Boza
At Blendy, we work with SMEs operating in increasingly complex, international, and highly digital environments.
Our observation is simple:
SaaS management is no longer an IT issue — it’s a financial one.
Boza delivers what many companies are missing:visibility,governance,and a direct link to accounting reality through Pennylane.
It is a critical building block for companies that want to scale without losing control of their cost structure.
Managing your tools is managing your profitability
Software is essential to growth.But without governance, it becomes invisible, expensive, and inefficient.
With Boza, companies turn their SaaS stack into a controlled asset.With Pennylane, they anchor it in reliable financial data.With Blendy, they build a coherent, scalable finance stack ready for international growth.
Because at a certain stage, optimizing what you already use often creates more value than selling more.
With Blendy, an international digital CPA based in Paris, Montreal and Miami,, take advantage of all the benefits of digital accounting to accelerate your financial processes and grow your business.
Certified by Pennylane, Dext, QuickBooks and Stripe, we support digital, eCommerce, IT services, and SaaS companies in France and internationally.
