How To Audit Your Company's Technology Stack
What is a tech stack or platform? No single software tool can accomplish everything a business needs. Successful companies leverage numerous apps and build a technology stack ("tech stack") or platform to achieve their business goals. According to HubSpot Partner Denamico, a tech stack or platform is defined as “a group of technology-based tools that help businesses to operate effectively, market efficiently, and enable sales and service teams to provide an optimal customer experience.” It should be noted that “tech stack” has been used, traditionally, to refer to a “set of technologies an organization uses to build a web or mobile application,” including “programming languages, frameworks, libraries, patterns, servers, UI/UX solutions, software, and tools used by its developers,” according to Stackshare. While this definition is valid, this article is much more focused on the SaaS apps (such as HubSpot, Vidyard, Zoom, etc.) that businesses use to operate, rather than d...