Asato Included as Notable Vendor in Forrester’s SaaS and Software Asset Management Solutions Landscape, Q3 2026

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Asato has been included as a Notable Vendor in The SaaS and Software Asset Management Solutions Landscape, Q3 2026. Published by Forrester Principal Analyst Biswajeet Mahapatra, the Landscape gives IT leaders and asset managers an overview of an established market and the notable vendors serving it. SaaS sprawl, cloud-linked licensing, and AI services priced in tokens, credits, and agent activity have scattered cost, entitlement, access, and risk decisions across IT, finance, procurement, security, and the business. Asato closes the gap with a master knowledge graph and agentic AI that executes approved actions under human-in-the-loop governance.

Software has quietly become the hardest part of the IT estate togovern. SaaS sprawl, cloud-linked licensing, decentralized buying, and now AIservices priced in tokens, credits, and agent activity have scattered cost,entitlement, access, and risk decisions across IT, finance, procurement,security, and the business. The old operating model — an annual true-up, aspreadsheet, and a scramble before a renewal — was built for stable seats anddevices. It does not survive contact with consumption that changes every day.

That shift is the backdrop for a new Forrester report, and we arepleased to share that Asato has been included in The SaaS And Software Asset Management Solutions Landscape, Q3 2026.

About the Landscape report

Published August 12, 2026 by Forrester Lead Author and Principal Analyst Biswajeet Mahapatra, the Landscape gives IT leaders and asset managers an overview of an established market and the notable vendors serving it.Forrester researched 21 companies for the report, profiling each by geographic focus, industry focus, deployment model, and vendor size.

Asato is included among the Notable Vendors in the report

The report identifies five core use cases buyers expect thesesolutions to address:

Entitlement and licensecompliance
SaaS/cloud governance and riskcontrol
Software inventory anddiscovery
Software lifecycle and requestfulfillment
Spending, cost, andoptimization management

Asato aligns with Forrester’s market map

Data sits in vendor portals, SaaS admin consoles, contracts, finance systems, identity tools, and a CMDB that is always a step behind. Inconsistent naming and overlapping ownership open a gap between what an enterprise owns, what it actually uses, and what it pays for.

Asato closes that gap with a master knowledge graph that reconciles fragmented asset, entitlement, contract, and usage records into decision-grade intelligence — then puts agentic AI on top of it. Our agents do not stop at surfacing an insight. They link the data, reason over it in business context, and execute approved actions: flagging shelfware and duplicate tools ahead of a renewal, interpreting license terms against real usage, attributing AI and SaaS consumption to an accountable owner, and reclaiming what is not being used.Every action stays under human-in-the-loop governance.

It is a model built for AI-generated consumption that is unpredictable, generated by workflows and autonomous agents as much as by people, and increasingly difficult to attribute. Static visibility cannot govern that. Continuous, agentic control can.

See it for yourself

Enterprises typically find millions in recoverable software spendhiding in plain sight — and the faster the estate changes, the more there is tofind. If you are rethinking how your organization governs software, SaaS, andAI consumption, we would like to show you what Asato surfaces in yourenvironment.

Request a demo at asato.ai, or read The SaaS And Software Asset Management Solutions Landscape, Q3 2026 on Forrester’s site (available to Forrester clients or for purchase).

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