CASE STUDY Lemon.io
“Helping you save on software is in these guys’ DNA”
BACKGROUND
Cost efficiency for engineering-first team
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.
“For engineering-first companies like ours, cloud costs has always been a major constraint. A large share of the budget went to infrastructure, leaving less room to experiment with new tools and emerging technologies.” – Anvar Azizov, CTO
RESULTS
Unlocking $100K for cloud runway
Besides the Workspace licence split, our team has managed to deliver a staggering $100k worth of Google Cloud Platform credits. Lemon.io will is now able to allocate the credits to BigQuery, Cloud Run, and Looker to bring their data processing and visualisation capabilities to the next level.
Finally, our team used the Spendbase SaaS management platform to audit Lemon.io’s subscriptions and uncover additional savings. As a result, Lemon.io unlocked these benefits:
- Received $100k with of Google Cloud Platform Credits;
- Reduced spend by 50% for Atlassian products;
- Optimized Slack use to get 25% cost reduction.