2011 SharePoint Survey

How Are Companies Using SharePoint in the Enterprise?

1. What is your primary role with SharePoint?

What is your primary role with SharePoint? End User

Developer

IT Pro / Administrator

Business/SharePoint Analyst

Other (please specify)

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2. Are you currently using or considering using SharePoint within your organization? (If using multiple version of SharePoint, answer which version represents the majority of your deployment.)

Are you currently using or considering using SharePoint within your organization? (If using multiple version of SharePoint, answer which version represents the majority of your deployment.) Own SharePoint 2003 and are using today

Own SharePoint 2007 and are using today

Own SharePoint 2010 and are using today

Own SharePoint, but have not deployed

Considering SharePoint

Not considering SharePoint

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3. How widespread is the deployment and usage of SharePoint within your organization?

How widespread is the deployment and usage of SharePoint within your organization? Use within team or single SharePoint project site

Limited SharePoint sites or departmental use (1 to 3)

Several departments (4 or more)

Regionally used by specific offices

Enterprise-wide global deployment of SharePoint

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4. How are you currently using, or how do you plan to use, your SharePoint investment? (Check all that apply)

How are you currently using, or how do you plan to use, your SharePoint investment? (Check all that apply) Content repository only

Enterprise content management

Portal, communication & web content management

Workflow

Business process management

Social, community, collaboration

Business intelligence / dashboards

Platform for custom applications

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5. In your opinion, what do you believe is the most challenging issue with your SharePoint implementation?

In your opinion, what do you believe is the most challenging issue with your SharePoint implementation? User Interface - Lack of intuitive, easy-to-use interface for business users

Dev Time - Development time and effort required to build business applications

Integration / customization -- of the platform

Workflows - Inability to manage multiple document workflows

Reporting - Limited real-time reporting and analytics on workflows or processes

Personalization - Inability to manage role- or skills-based work assignments

Scalability - Ability to scale for high volume of documents or users; performance

Governance - Limited governance policies, coordination, and commitment

Adoption /Training - End-user adoption and training

Strategy – Limited or lack of SharePoint strategy in business or IT

Other

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6. Which statement below best represents your opinion of the SharePoint user application experience?

Which statement below best represents your opinion of the SharePoint user application experience? GREAT -- SharePoint has a great user experience out-of-the-box and is adequate for our needs

SOMEWHAT ADEQUATE -- SharePoint user experience is somewhat adequate but requires additional in-house design and development

INADEQUATE / NEEDS 3rd PARTY --SharePoint user experience is inadequate and requires third party products and services to improve the application interface

INADEQUATE -- SharePoint user experience is inadequate but we don’t have the time or resources to invest in improvements

NOT IMPORTANT -- User experience is not important

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7. How do you expose legacy or other application data to your SharePoint users?

How do you expose legacy or other application data to your SharePoint users? Access data through a separate native legacy/application interface

SharePoint Data is integrated into a different system and pulled by users from that system

Some legacy data is accessed through SharePoint

Access all legacy and new data through a single, integrated user interface within SharePoint

External data is currently not available

Other

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8. Which new capability within SharePoint 2010 do you believe has been / will be most beneficial?

Which new capability within SharePoint 2010 do you believe has been / will be most beneficial? Enhanced social computing tools

New and improved application development experience

Simplify line-of-business application or proprietary system integration

Improved workflow design and deployment

Improved business to IT collaboration with SharePoint Designer 2010 and Visual Studio 2010

Improved content search and navigation across site collection boundaries

Enhanced scalability and storage

Better support for standards

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9. Of the documents stored and managed within SharePoint, what percentage are used or accessed as part of a broader mission-critical process?

(e.g., your business would stop if SharePoint documents / content were not available to help with servicing clients, processing invoices, managing customer cases, handling claims)

Of the documents stored and managed within SharePoint, what percentage are used or accessed as part of a broader mission-critical process? (e.g., your business would stop if SharePoint documents / content were not available to help with servicing clients, processing invoices, managing customer cases, handling claims) None

1 – 25%

26 – 50%

51 – 75%

76 – 100%

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10. How large is your business? (#employees)

How large is your business? (#employees) Less than 100

100 to 499

500 – 999

1000 – 4999

5000 – 9,999

10,000 or greater

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11. What global region do you live in?

What global region do you live in? Africa

Asia

Australia/New Zealand

Eastern Europe

Middle East

North America

South America

Western Europe

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12. Which of the following types of add-on package or system are you using / planning to use with your SharePoint implementation? (Check all that apply)

Which of the following types of add-on package or system are you using / planning to use with your SharePoint implementation? (Check all that apply) Workflow/BPM

Search/Analytics

Security and rights management

Back-up support

Classification/taxonomy management

Data migration tools

Records management system

Enterprise 2.0/social computing

Scanning and capture - single point

Storage management (externalization)

Archiving (long-term retention of content)

Distributed scanning and capture platform

Rich Media handling

Integrated/improved interface to email

Digital signatures

E-discovery

Case Management

Interface to fax systems

None

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13. What industry below best represents your organization?

What industry below best represents your organization? Consumer Packaged Goods or Retail

Energy

Education

Financial Services / Banking

Healthcare

Insurance

IT Services / Consulting

Manufacturing (discrete or process)

Public Sector (state, local or federal government)

Software Development

Utilities

Other

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14. Rate the end user satisfaction with your SharePoint training programs

Rate the end user satisfaction with your SharePoint training programs We don’t have a training program

Not satisfied

Content / Comfortable

Very Satisfied

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15. Describe the level of business process maturity within your SharePoint environment.

Describe the level of business process maturity within your SharePoint environment. Initial - Business process is loosely defined.

Managed - Business processes are designed; some custom, departmental “no-code” workflows (SP Designer, Visio, or third-party tool) may be used

Defined-- Process is considered as a whole, rather than as automating functional tasks. Transition from procedural document workflow to orchestration of dynamic business process.

Predictable - Workflow is a component of SP-based composite applications with connectivity to LOB systems.

Optimizing -- Power users can edit existing workflows to adapt them to changing business needs on the fly. Users leverage data from BPM to optimize process, simulate on real data, clear bottlenecks, balance work across workloads.

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16. Do you have any plans that include SharePoint in the cloud? (check all that apply)

Do you have any plans that include SharePoint in the cloud? (check all that apply) No plans

Considering Office365 with SharePoint

Already using Office365 with SharePoint

Considering hosted SharePoint offering

Already using hosted SharePoint offering

Considering other Cloud solutions similar to SharePoint Online (i.e. Box.Net, Drop Box, Google Apps)

17. Would you like the survey results emailed to you? If YES, please provide your email address below.

IMPORTANT: Your email will ONLY be used for the purpose of communicating the survey results. Survey results will be published in October 2011.

Would you like the survey results emailed to you? If YES, please provide your email address below. IMPORTANT: Your email will ONLY be used for the purpose of communicating the survey results. Survey results will be published in October 2011.

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How Are Companies Using SharePoint in the Enterprise?

1. What is your primary role with SharePoint?

*2. Are you currently using or considering using SharePoint within your organization? (If using multiple version of SharePoint, answer which version represents the majority of your deployment.)

*3. How widespread is the deployment and usage of SharePoint within your organization?

*4. How are you currently using, or how do you plan to use, your SharePoint investment? (Check all that apply)

*5. In your opinion, what do you believe is the most challenging issue with your SharePoint implementation?

*6. Which statement below best represents your opinion of the SharePoint user application experience?

*7. How do you expose legacy or other application data to your SharePoint users?

*8. Which new capability within SharePoint 2010 do you believe has been / will be most beneficial?

*10. How large is your business? (#employees)

*11. What global region do you live in?

*12. Which of the following types of add-on package or system are you using / planning to use with your SharePoint implementation? (Check all that apply)

*13. What industry below best represents your organization?

*14. Rate the end user satisfaction with your SharePoint training programs

*15. Describe the level of business process maturity within your SharePoint environment.

*16. Do you have any plans that include SharePoint in the cloud? (check all that apply)

17. Would you like the survey results emailed to you? If YES, please provide your email address below. IMPORTANT: Your email will ONLY be used for the purpose of communicating the survey results. Survey results will be published in October 2011.

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2. Are you currently using or considering using SharePoint within your organization? (If using multiple version of SharePoint, answer which version represents the majority of your deployment.)

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3. How widespread is the deployment and usage of SharePoint within your organization?

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4. How are you currently using, or how do you plan to use, your SharePoint investment? (Check all that apply)

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5. In your opinion, what do you believe is the most challenging issue with your SharePoint implementation?

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6. Which statement below best represents your opinion of the SharePoint user application experience?

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7. How do you expose legacy or other application data to your SharePoint users?

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8. Which new capability within SharePoint 2010 do you believe has been / will be most beneficial?

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10. How large is your business? (#employees)

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11. What global region do you live in?

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12. Which of the following types of add-on package or system are you using / planning to use with your SharePoint implementation? (Check all that apply)

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13. What industry below best represents your organization?

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14. Rate the end user satisfaction with your SharePoint training programs

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15. Describe the level of business process maturity within your SharePoint environment.

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16. Do you have any plans that include SharePoint in the cloud? (check all that apply)

17. Would you like the survey results emailed to you? If YES, please provide your email address below.

IMPORTANT: Your email will ONLY be used for the purpose of communicating the survey results. Survey results will be published in October 2011.