In less than 10 years, companies have multiplied their applications at the rate of SaaS growth. The arrival of generative AI models, then agents capable of acting autonomously in internal environments, shifts the difficulty even further. The problem now no longer lies only in the volume of tools, but in the variability of their uses, the speed of change and the increasing porosity between professions, data and access.
IT managers must deal with systems that continually evolve and manage applications that create new interactions, generate internal flows, change costs by the minute and produce operational events themselves. These changes make understanding real consumption, contracts, costs and compliance more difficult, a real headache to solve.
Especially since SaaS had introduced subscription logic that was difficult to master, AI is changing usage exponentially. Thus a team can trigger hundreds of additional API calls without understanding the immediate implications, an agent can reallocate internal rights according to unforeseen rules or even an automation can engage the liability of the company without a human operator having anticipated it.
In this context, a new generation of tools is emerging to interpret usage data in real time, reconcile contractual information, automate access management and adjust resources. Software governance is in fact becoming a cross-functional issue and no longer only concerns security or finance. It affects productivity, compliance, internal architecture and employee experience.
Alongside solutions like BetterCloud, Torii, Vendr or Zluri, these new solutions seek to rebuild a governance model adapted to the era of autonomous systems. In France, Corma, created in July 2023, is developing an automated software management platform combining Identity Access Management and Software Asset Management. It uses a multi-agent system to collect usage data, interpret contracts and automate IT tasks. The company has just announced the closing of a Seed fundraising of 3.5M euros. The round is led by XTX Ventures, with participation from Tuesday Capital, Kima Ventures, 50 Partners and Olympe Capital. Business angels like Thomas Wolf, Jean-Louis Quéguiner and Doreen Pernel also participated. The startup was created by Héloïse Rozes, Samuel Bismut and Nikolai Fomm.
