While doing some SharePoint research, I came across two interesting infographics I wanted to share.
The first infographic is from Perficient partner Rackspace and is based on a survey of 14,000 US based IT professionals in addition to Technet, McKinsey & Microsoft Newscenter.
In a post early last year ZDNet‘s Mary Jo Foley shared that
Microsoft has been adding 20,000 SharePoint users per day, every day for the last five years, according to Jared Spataro, Director of SharePoint product management. That means 7.3 million new SharePoint users every year.
The Rackspace infographic titled Microsoft SharePoint 101 tells us what that means today, suggesting that 78% of Fortune 500 companies use SharePoint, 1 in 5 knowledge workers have access to SharePoint, 62% of information workers use it daily and 34% of SharePoint users don’t feel like they are using it’s full capabilities.
CMSWire‘s SharePoint infographic “SharePoint: Who, How and Why We’re Using It” talks to the evolution of SharePoint but most interestingly the dominant use cases. According to their source, a Fall 2011 SharePoint survey by OpenText and Global 360, 78% of those surveyed are using SharePoint as a web CMS, 67% for workflow, 61% for enterprise CMS, 53% for social collaboration, 48% for Business Intelligence, 46% for custom apps and 31% as a content repository.
The continuing evolution of social business solutions is something that I’m always looking to learn more about. My colleague Rich Wood will be talking about Understanding SharePoint 13 and the Social Landscape in his webinar on September 19th and it will be a key topic for the Perficient team at the upcoming SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas in November.
What do you think about the continued evolution of SharePoint as an enterprise collaboration platform? What are the key use cases you are seeing? Clicking on the infographic images will take you to a larger version.
