Trend Watch: Security awareness increased notably and change management continues to be an issue.
Q: What are the biggest technology issues or annoyances with your
firm? (Select three.)
Other answers:
- Backups, extreme cost of cloud hosting
- Ease of use, lack of intuitive design
- Effective communication
- Frequent cosmetic changes to SAS applications – QBO
- Getting all data backed up to the cloud
- Hardware/software performance, slow processing issues
- Having time to learn all capabilities of the technology
- Merger issues
- Required to change Windows operating systems
- Setting them up and importing the data then maintaining. Takes too much time.
- Slow computers/network
- Technology companies only care about selling product and training and take little time to really understand our firm and needs.
- Unsure
- User support
- Web portal integration w/UT and ease of use for clients
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