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About one-third describe their SaaS apps as mission critical.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So my question is&#8230; if SaaS applications are now being classified  as \u201cmission critical\u201d,  why are so many of these companies not investing in an environment that is designed to complement and provide support for those mission critical applications?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the January 10, 2010 INFORMATION WEEK article written by Michael Biddick titled \u201cWhy you need a SaaS strategy\u201d he writes, \u201cThree-fourths of companies using SaaS consider application services extremely or critically important to their organizations, according to our InformationWeek Analytics survey of 281 business technologists, including 131 who now use SaaS. About one-third describe their SaaS apps as mission critical.\u201d So my question is&#8230; if SaaS applications are now being classified as \u201cmission critical\u201d, why are so many of these companies not investing in an environment that is designed to complement and provide support for those mission critical applications?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"other_category":[],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why You Need A SaaS Strategy - Information Week Commentary | OTAVA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/why-you-need-a-saas-strategy-information-week-commentary\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why You Need A SaaS Strategy - Information Week Commentary\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In the January 10, 2010 INFORMATION WEEK article written by Michael Biddick titled \u201cWhy you need a SaaS strategy\u201d he writes, \u201cThree-fourths of companies using SaaS consider application services extremely or critically important to their organizations, according to our InformationWeek Analytics survey of 281 business technologists, including 131 who now use SaaS. 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