A SaaS first strategy has implications beyond cost savings and keeping current with technology. SaaS comes with challenges that CIOs and other technologists are trying to better understand and prepare for. Each year an ever expanding array of SaaS offerings need to be managed and integrated. CIOs want to better understand how to control the data and monitor the security of the SaaS solutions. This report will discuss the areas that should be considered when implementing a SaaS solution.