This is a yearly survey of the ‘top concerns’ of UCISA members. The idea is to capture the issues, technologies, threats, opportunities and other things that are on the mind of staff in IT in Education sector.

So the slide of top concerns just got put up, but I could get it all down – it will be on the UCISA website next week. Anyway, here are the first 13 that I managed to get down:

Network technologies
Super Janet 5
Network Security
Anytime anywhere computing
Strategic approach to infrastructure
Systems resilience and availability
User management
Data management
Grid technologies
Enterprise portals
Business continuity
Information security
Extended hours

The analysis of all this still needs finalising, but a crude top 10 is:

But as a summary
Anytime, anywhere computing
Systems resilience
Network security
Strategic approach
Learning support
Network technologies
Enterprise portal
User management
Ensuring sufficient funding
Data management
IT institution planning

Some other ways of looking at it are…

Seen as most important to the success of the institution NOW were:
Network security
Strategic approach to infrastructure
Systems resilience and availability
Anytime anywhere computing
Learning Support
Ensuring sufficient funding
IT Institutions planning
Enterprise portals
… – more I couldn’t get down

Seen as likely to become more signifcant in next 12 months

Anytime, anywhere
Extended hours
Enterprise portals
Services management formal approach
User management
Document management
… – more I couldn’t get down