Command Center

Reduce software spend across your SaaS and AI tools.

Pendo Command Center gives IT and business systems teams a shared view of app usage, license utilization, and costs. Bring SaaS portfolio management and AI-tool adoption into focus so you can investigate unmanaged apps and make informed software spending decisions.

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See every app your team is running — including the ones nobody approved. Free for Pendo customers, for a limited time

SOFTWARE SPEND AND ADOPTION

Find software waste. Make smarter SaaS and AI investments.

Reduce wasted software spend:

Identify underused and overlapping SaaS and AI tools for review before you renew or expand.

Uncover shadow apps and AI tools:

Investigate applications employees use outside your managed portfolio.

Improve adoption:

Compare usage across teams to identify where employees may need help getting value from their tools.

"ITdoesn’thavefullvisibilityintoeveryteambuyingorusingtools.CommandCentergivesusthatvisibility,especiallyinadecentralizedenvironment.”

Jeremy Smith

Jeremy Smith

Director, IT Engineering

Capabilities

See app usage, licenses, and costs in one portfolio view.

Bring SaaS and AI-tool usage into one portfolio view. Pendo Command Center helps IT and business systems teams review software investments and prioritize decisions about adoption, licenses, and renewals.

Discover apps across your software portfolio

Use App Discovery with Pendo Launcher to surface web applications employees access in deployed browsers, including unmanaged tools.

Discover apps across your software portfolio
Discover apps across your software portfolio

Understand AI-tool and custom-agent adoption

Review AI-tool usage, including activity for custom GPTs and Gemini Gems. Connect eligible tools to Agent Analytics for deeper analysis.

Understand AI-tool and custom-agent adoption
Understand AI-tool and custom-agent adoption

Review software license utilization

Identify licenses that need review, checking usage coverage before treating low recorded activity as underuse.

Review software license utilization
Review software license utilization

Review software costs and potential savings

Bring cost and usage information together to inform spending decisions. Validate estimates against your contracts.

Review software costs and potential savings
Review software costs and potential savings

Investigate potential shadow IT and AI use

Prioritize applications that may have been adopted outside IT oversight, then confirm their approval status.

Investigate potential shadow IT and AI use
Investigate potential shadow IT and AI use

Prioritize software decisions and take action

Review prioritized signals, coordinate follow-up, and use available Pendo actions to support adoption.

Prioritize software decisions and take action
Prioritize software decisions and take action

The visibility and action you've always wanted.

Take control of your tech stack.

  • Reduce costs. Find and cut underused or duplicative tools eating into your budget.

  • Increase productivity. Ensure employees fully adopt the tools that drive core workflows.

  • Reduce risk. Uncover unapproved tools and steer users toward compliant, secure software.

Take control of your tech stack.

See where your software spend needs a closer look.

Explore how Command Center brings SaaS and AI-tool usage, license utilization, and costs into one portfolio view.

INTERACTIVE TOUR

Take the Command Center for a test drive

Go ahead, poke around—it's the real product, and nobody's going to follow up with a sales call.

INTERACTIVE TOUR

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Frequently asked questions

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Command Center is a portfolio-level dashboard that gives IT teams a single view of every application employees are using across the enterprise, including apps you didn't approve of. It automatically discovers web apps through App Discovery, surfaces insights on adoption, waste, and risk, and connects directly to Pendo's tools so you can take action without switching platforms.

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It's built for IT leaders and business systems teams at enterprise organizations — anyone accountable for software spend, employee productivity, or technology ROI.

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Command Center brings app usage, license utilization, and cost information into a shared portfolio view. IT and business systems teams can use that information to investigate unmanaged apps, review software investments, and plan follow-up before renewals.

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By default, only anonymized metadata (root domain and timestamp). Deep analytics only activate after an admin explicitly promotes an app — you decide what gets tracked and when.

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An admin enables discovery mode in settings, and the dashboard populates as apps are identified. Most teams see their first insights within hours of deployment.

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