New report finds less than half of Intranet users are adopting Enterprise 2.0

Toby Ward, President of Prescient Digital Media has released an extensive survey of Intranet users which explored how much impact Enterprise 2.0 tools are having on Intranet use. What he found was that less than half of Intranet users have taken the plunge, and in his view those companies that fail to adopt Enterprise 2.0 technologies risk a slow march toward irrelevancy.

Among the key findings:

• Around 45 percent of companies are using blogs, wikis and discussions forums.
• Of those almost half (48 percent) are using Microsoft SharePoint as their Enterprise 2.0 platform
• Surprise finding: 20 percent are using Facebook as their Enterprise 2.0 platform
• Of those that have implemented these solutions, half have spent less than $10,000 (probably because most are using SharePoint and they get the license for little or no cost)

Ward says there were no sponsors for this survey. He did it as a labor of love. It was conducted online between the Fall of 2008 and the Spring of 2009. 561 companies responded from across the world.

One final note, the survey found that 37 percent of respondents were not using a CMS to "publish and manage content," a statistic that I find slightly shocking. Perhaps respondents simply didn't realize there was a CMS involved, but that a 1/3 would not be using a CMS seems shockingly low. As you would expect SharePoint dominated with fully 20 percent reporting they were using it as their CMS, but it is a number that is lower than one would expect given the ubiquity of SharePoint we tend to hear about.

Again, this could be due to the fact, that people didn't see SharePoint as a CMS and so didn't report it as such.

For more:
- read the Prescient Digital Media press release [1]

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