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Monday, 10 October 2011 20:10 |
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Osterman Research just published a study titled "“SharePoint Census 2011 – State of the Market” tracking SharePoint usage behaviors in mid to large sized organizations. Getting right into it, here are some of the key findings of the study: - Downtime. Enterprises where unplanned SharePoint downtime was caused by administrator error experienced 72 percent more outages, and paid twice as much per user per month to manage the platform. Among these organizations, 43 percent cited lack of administrator skills, training, and knowledge as an inhibitor to efficiently leveraging SharePoint. This is indicative of the complexity of managing SharePoint. - Costs. It was found that the average cost of managing SharePoint was close to $30 per user per month. Compare this with the $10 per user per month for cometing web based SharePoint alternatives. - Deployment Method. The study found that 80% of SharePoint servers are deployed on premises. Respondents of the study anticipate that this will fall to 55%, while the rest will be accounted for by SharePoint based on the private cloud (35%) and the public cloud (15%). I think this is indicative of the fact that large companies with enhanced security concerns account for a big section of SharePoint's customers.
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Last Updated on Monday, 10 October 2011 20:49 |
