Top concerns of System i users in Europe

Here are the top concerns of European System i users, according to a survey taken by COMMON Europe:

1. Satisfy internal customers
2. Treat data security and confidentiality as a business risk
3. Improve IT security and continuity
4. Receive consistent high quality service and support from vendors
5. Keep the skills current for the existing staff
6. Make me grow as a more competent individual
7. Do fast application development to fulfill business needs
8. Build business skills in the information technology shop
9. Standardize and consolidate IT infrastructure
10. Attract the younger generation to centralized systems
11. Easily exchange information with other companies/institutions
12. Find applications that fulfill business needs
13. Acquire and retain IT personnel
14. Correctly measure the value of IT to business
15. Integrate document management and unstructured data with core applications
16. Assure better data warehousing with real answers to business questions