SharePoint 2013 uptake on the rise
Organizers of the upcoming SharePoint Conferences Sydney (15-16 July) and Auckland (22 & 23 July) have announced the findings of their APAC survey of SharePoint corporate and government users.
Some of the findings include the following statistics:
- More than 50% or organisations are still running SharePoint 2010, although SharePoint 2013’s share is growing (SharePoint 2007 15%, SharePoint 2013 35%, Office365/SharePoint Online 25%)
- Judgement of the success of the deployment of SharePoint as an Intranet/SharePoint environment was mixed, with almost half responding it was going “Just OK”
- Challenges around integration with SharePoint and confusing user experience were seen as obstacles to uptake of OneDrive and OneDrive for Business?
- The importance of records management to the organization was seen as essential by 45% of respondents owing to compliance regulations/.
More than 75% are already developing business workflow in SharePoint, like this user who responded, “We have a handful of processes put on SharePoint. In conjunction with business stakeholders, I have taken manual paper based forms and developed them in InfoPath forms with SharePoint OOTB workflow.”
Another observed,” Yes, we take current process maps and evaluate them to find a current process that would work well in SharePoint, develop and test, deploy get feedback and improve. Pick another process and repeat as above. “
The full survey results are available HERE