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IT’s Most Taxing Tasks

IT’s Most Taxing Tasks
Written By
Debra Donston
Debra Donston
May 28, 2012
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IT’s Most Taxing Tasks

IT’s Most Taxing Tasks

Written by Debra Donston; Illustrated by Brian Moore


IT`s Most Taxing Tasks – Taxing Task #1

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Keeping up with patches.


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Managing mobile systems, especially devices on which sensitive data must be stored.


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Keeping up with patches.


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Dealing with problems on home machines that are also used for business use.


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Keeping up with patches.


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Configuring enterprise apps so that their respective reports will yield meaningful results.


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Keeping up with patches.


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Explaining to business managers why the application they just read about is too expensive, too complex, too [fill in the blank here] for your organization.


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Keeping up with patches.


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Managing access control issues.


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Keeping up with patches.


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Maintaining the latest tech toy the CEO has acquired.


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Keeping up with patches.


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Staying on top of increasingly complex licensing issues.


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Keeping up with patches.


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Staying abreast of technology news.


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Keeping up with patches.


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Dealing with custom development demands.


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Keeping up with patches.


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Translating tech jargon into business lingo, and vice versa.


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Did we mention keeping up with patches?


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