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Lemkin: Average US Enterprise Uses Over 400 B2B Apps

Jason Lemkin · SaaStr APAC AMA with Jason Lemkin, SaaStr CEO · Mar 10, 2023 · at 6:42

SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin discusses software maturity differences between the US and international markets at SaaStr APAC.

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“The average Enterprise company in the US has over 400 B to B apps, and the average SMB has over a hundred.”

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The claim, plainly

The average enterprise company in the United States uses over 400 B2B applications, while the average SMB uses over 100.

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Assessment

Published SaaS management industry benchmark reports tracking total enterprise software utilization circa 2022–2023 confirm both legs of the claim. Full-stack SaaS discovery vendors analyzing expense, ERP, and SSO data (such as Zylo's 2022 and 2023 SaaS Management Index and Productiv's State of SaaS reports) found that the average enterprise company used between 422 and 651+ SaaS applications (exceeding 400), while the average SMB cohort (1–500 employees) managed approximately 172 applications (exceeding 100). While identity-only reports such as Okta's 'Businesses at Work' reported lower totals (~187 for enterprise and ~72 for SMB), those figures reflect only SSO-provisioned tools rather than total B2B applications in use.

Zylo 2023 SaaS Management Index reported that SMBs (1–500 employees) averaged 172 SaaS applications, while enterprise cohorts averaged between 422 (2,501–5,000 employees) and 600+ (10,000+ employees) applications.
Zylo 2022 SaaS Management Index reported that large enterprise organizations maintained an average of 651 applications.
Productiv's 2023 State of SaaS report found large enterprise organizations averaged 473 SaaS applications.

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[1] zylo.com [2] zylo.com [3] hubspotusercontent-na1.net [4] nintex.com [5] okta.com [6] scribd.com [7] stavros.io [8] zylo.com

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