Top 20 SMB Technologies and Purchasing Trends - ' Key IT Business Challenges '
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Key Business IT Challenges
Controlling IT spending and maintenance costs, as well as leveraging IT to increase productivity are SMBs' chief IT challenges, the survey show.
| Controlling IT spending | 37% |
| High IT maintenance costs | 26% |
| Using IT to increase user productivity |
23% |
| Extending life of legacy systems | 20% |
| Integration issues |
18% |
| Finding vendors that understand business | 15% |
| Leveraging IT to enhance customer service |
14% |
| Upgrading to Vista | 14% |
| Finding and retaining IT talent |
12% |
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