SharePoint 2010 report finds collaboration and social features most popular

3/17/2011 3:07 PM

Radicati Group study, Microsoft SharePoint Market Analysis, finds document collaboration and social features of SharePoint 2010 most popular.

The technology market research firm based its research on two areas, including on-premise and hosted collaboration markets. Also, the group places SharePoint into two categories: SharePoint Foundation and SharePoint Server. Included in the report are breakdowns of SharePoint distribution by size of the businesses surveyed, version of SharePoint and region.

Of businesses surveyed, nearly half cited document collaboration as the most used feature in SharePoint Foundation. The most popular component of SharePoint Server is communities, which allow people to collaborate based on experience and expertise.

“End-users have demanded features that more closely mirror popular consumer social networks, such as Facebook,” said the report. “Microsoft greatly improved the social features within SharePoint Server 2010 compared to what was available within Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.”

A recent article by CMSWire’s Michal Pisarek states the most difficult aspect of implementing SharePoint into the workplace is user-adoption. Since the Office suite is very popular, companies can have employees collaborate between applications, including Word and SharePoint for greater success for employees adopting the platform.

 

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