Transcript Usage of and Interest in SharePoint

How Planned Adopters Expect to Use SharePoint
To the best of your knowledge, for what purposes is your organization most interested in using
SharePoint? (Percent of respondents, N=146, multiple responses accepted)
Centralized file sharing across internal teams or company locations
48%
Vendor
Collaborative document editing / version control
47%
Document workflows and publishing automation
43%
Ability to create interdepartmental sites for employee collaboration
41%
Channel
34%
Internal information portal / home page for employees
Records management/evidence management for e-discovery purposes
31%
Building new employee-facing application(s) on top of SharePoint
26%
Ability to create customer Web portals for collaboration purposes
25%
Enterprise search
21%
Support for social networking tools (i.e., blogs, wikis, Web 2.0, forums,
etc.)
Building new customer- or partner-facing application(s) on top of
SharePoint
16%
Media
End User
12%
Using SharePoint as public-facing company Web site
8%
Too soon to tell
8%
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Source: ESG Research Report, Microsoft SharePoint Adoption, Market Drivers, & IT Impact, March 2009.
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