How many SharePoint sites did your company start in the past year?

Now, how many are actively being used? If you’re organization is like  many, SharePoint adoption isn’t the same as SharePoint usage.

In a new study by Infotrends Inc. a market consultancy, researchers found that SharePoint is on average available to approximately two-thirds of organizations, but is only used by approximately 40 percent
of organizations.

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Even then usage tends to be fairly basic. “Virtually all of our follow-up phone interviews indicated basic collaboration and document management as the primary use,” wrote Omri Duek, a consultant for Infotrends and one of the authors of the Infotrends’ report on Sharepoint. “The phrases “e-mail replacement” or “shared drive replacement” came up often during these calls. “Where more advanced workflows or WCM were used, they were underwhelming,” he said.

The new Spigit for SharePoint might be just the answer. The SAAS software provides Spigit’s innovation market  technology within the context of SharePoint…

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