Why UnDesked / Vendor Consolidation

Vendor Consolidation

Keep adding apps.
Keep finding gaps.

You can keep buying patchwork solutions to solve single-point problems, or you can use UnDesked, the workforce operations platform designed to handle it all.

More tools than ever. Less coverage than you need.

The average company now runs so many unique software tools that nearly 10% of the day is just spent switching between them.

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apps the average company runs today1
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times a day workers switch between them2
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of the workday lost just to toggling2

How enterprise software is organized

Consolidating point tools into enterprise platforms saves users time and money.

Systems of record for HR, finance, and sales consolidated from a sprawl of point solutions into enterprise platforms years ago. The systems of execution for workforce operations never did. Until now.

Systems of recordEach replaced a stack of single-point tools
HRISConsolidated
HR & Payroll
PayrollTime & attendanceSchedulingApplicant trackingOnboardingPerformance reviewsCompensation planning
ERPConsolidated
Finance & Operations
General ledgerInvoicing & ARAccounts payableProcurementInventoryOrder managementFinancial reporting
CRMConsolidated
Sales & Marketing
Contact managementSales pipelineEmail marketingQuoting & CPQLead captureMarketing automationForecasting
Systems of executionNow consolidated by UnDesked
Workforce operations
One platform
Safety & EHSQuality inspectionsMaintenanceTraining & LMSCommunicationsForms & workflowsTask managementVisitor managementDigital signage

When apps don't connect, cross-functional tasks and communication can't be automated.

When something happens in
Does this function pick it up?
Safety
Quality
Production
Maintenance
Training
Comms
HR
Visitors
Safety
Quality
Production
Maintenance
Training
Comms
HR
Visitors
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Logins and bills
0
Functions with a tool
56
Handoffs missing
$0
Est. spend / yr4
Functions connected0%
Within a function Handoff connected Overlap, paid for twice Handoff missing One platform

One vendor your IT team is glad to own.

SOC 2 Type II
Independently audited
ISO 27001
Certified ISMS
Continuously monitored with Vanta

SSO and SAML

Single sign-on through SAML 2.0 and OIDC. Workers and admins authenticate with the identity provider you already run.

SCIM provisioning

Provision and deprovision automatically from your directory. When someone leaves, access is gone the same minute.

Role-based access

Granular permissions by site, team, and role. People see only what their job requires, nothing more.

API and webhooks

An open REST API and event webhooks connect UnDesked to your HRIS, ERP, and data warehouse without custom glue.

Audit logs

Every action is timestamped and exportable. Answer a compliance request in minutes, not weeks.

Encryption and monitoring

Encrypted in transit and at rest, with controls monitored continuously so posture never drifts.

Your whole security posture, in one place.

SOC 2 status, penetration test summaries, subprocessors, and live control monitoring, all published and kept current. Review it before you ever sign.

Visit our Trust Center

Fits the stack you already run.

Microsoft TeamsActive DirectoryPower BIMicrosoft SSOGoogle Workspace

Single sign-on, directory sync, and reporting connect UnDesked to the tools IT already manages. No new identity system, no parallel data store.

The cost of sprawl

One floor should not run on a dozen logins.

Every point tool is another contract, another integration, another thing the floor has to learn.

One trigger. Every team it touches, in order.

Real operations are never one department. UnDesked orchestrates the whole chain, routing each step to the right stakeholder automatically, in the language they read, with nothing re-keyed along the way.

Trigger
Safety
Operator reports a near-miss in their language
Step 1
Maintenance
Work order opens, a technician is assigned
Step 2
Quality
Affected lots are held for re-check
Step 3
Training
A refresher is pushed to the crew
Step 4
Communications
Shift leads are alerted across sites
Step 5
HR & Record
The incident is logged to the audit trail

One event moved through six teams without a phone call, a paper form, or a second login. That is the difference between a stack of tools and one platform.

One platform, across everything the floor runs on.

The same building blocks power every area, and a trigger in one flows straight into the next. Consolidate the stack, and the gaps, the overlap, and the broken handoffs disappear at once.

One login. One bill. One vendor. One record of the floor.

And a win for IT, not a workaround
SSO and SAMLSCIM provisioningRole-based accessAPI and webhooksAudit logsOne vendor, one contract

When the gap is unique to you, build for it.

Some processes no vendor sells. With no-code Resources, Workflows, and Hubs, your team builds new solutions on the same platform, so even the corners no product covers become part of your one system. No new app, no new vendor, no developer.

Resources

Forms, documents, media, and records, the raw pieces your team works with.

Workflows

Stack those pieces into a process that routes, assigns, verifies, and records. No code.

Hubs

Publish it to the kiosks, screens, and devices where each role and place needs it.

Combined, they become a new solution, live on your platform, filling the gap no product did. The surface isn't fixed. If your operation needs it, you can build it.

Switch on your terms, retiring tools as they lapse.

You do not rip and replace. We map your renewal dates and priorities, then phase UnDesked in so nothing breaks and you never pay for two systems at once.

Phase 1

The expensive, expiring, and painful

Starts day one

We begin with the tools whose contracts lapse soonest and the workflows costing you the most in manual work, so value lands before anything renews.

Mapped to your renewal dates
Phase 2

The connected core

As contracts lapse

Safety, quality, training, maintenance, and communications move onto one platform in sequence, each handoff wired to the next as it comes online.

No double-paying, ever
Phase 3

The long tail and the custom

On your timeline

The remaining point tools retire as they expire, and the gaps no product covered get built on the platform with your team.

Built, not bought

A dedicated workflow engineering team does the building.

You are not handed a blank platform. Our workflow engineers build, test, and sandbox every workflow with you, tuned to each tool, team, department, and use case, then validate it on the floor before launch. Each rollout is a clean cutover, not a science project.

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The supercharger

And because it is one platform, it speaks every language at once.

Consolidation is the win for any team. For a multilingual workforce it goes further: author once and every workflow, message, and document reaches each worker in the language they read, automatically. No extra tools, no extra step.

See the AI Translation Engine

Customer story

A Fortune 500 plastics manufacturer consolidated 50 facilities and 8,500 deskless workers onto UnDesked.

0%fewer safety incidents in two years
0xmore near-miss reports, 400 to 4,000 a month
0%lower workers' comp costs, about $2.2M saved
0%higher workforce engagement
"Before UnDesked, every problem on the floor meant another login and another vendor, and no one place to see any of it. Now safety, quality, training, and communications all run on one platform. I manage the whole operation from a single screen, and my team works from one source of truth instead of six."

A Fortune 500 plastics manufacturer. Read the full story3

Two frontline workers reviewing a workflow on a tablet on the floor

One platform

Everything the floor runs on, in one place.

Forms, training, safety, and communication on one platform, in every worker's language.

You don't need more tools. You need a platform that does it all.

Workplace operations require coordination across every function. Choose a platform that can orchestrate that work.

A stack of point apps

  • !Each tool a rigid shape: gaps between, overlaps on top
  • !Overlap you pay for twice, or three times
  • !A login, a bill, and an admin for each one
  • !Every function an island: nothing hands off to the next
  • !The floor patches the connections with paper

One platform

  • Every function covered, no gaps
  • Built once, reused everywhere, no duplication
  • One login, one bill, one vendor
  • A trigger in one function hands off to the next, automatically
  • Reaches every worker on any device

See your whole stack on one platform.

Bring the list of tools and paper you run today. We will show you the one platform that covers it.

Sources

  1. Okta, Businesses at Work 2025; the average company deploys 101 apps, and routinely licenses best-of-breed tools alongside suites that already include them. okta.com
  2. Harvard Business Review, 2022; workers toggle between applications about 1,200 times a day, losing roughly four hours a week, about 9 percent of work time. hbr.org
  3. UnDesked customer case study, Fortune 500 plastic manufacturer. undesked.com/case-study
  4. Illustrative planning estimate for a single facility. A site typically runs a dozen or more point tools at a few thousand dollars each per year, and consolidation programs commonly cut 20 to 30 percent of software spend. Figures shown are conservative estimates for modeling, not a quote. quantumrun.com, cloudeagle.ai