Great SharePoint Survey Results

What's your job role ?

We thought we’d break the ice by asking what Job Role you performed (we we’re just being nosey really!) but as you’d expect most of our responses came from an Information Technology background, with over a quarter of you being IT Pro’s.

How soon will you adopt SharePoint 2013?

It would appear that the majority of you are not expecting to adopt SharePoint 2013 in the short term, with 55.1% expecting it to take at least 18 months to migrate to the new version. 4.5% of you don’t expect to adopt it at all!

 

What versions are you using in production?

63% of you only use one version of SharePoint in your production/live environment and the majority are Enterprise versions. 56% use SharePoint 2010 Enterprise with Moss 2007 Enterprise the next most popular single version.

How many versions do you use in production?

If you count all of the versions used across all of the respondents, SharePoint 2010 Enterprise is still the most popular being used in 54.3% of companies. WSS 3.0 is still used in 18.2% of organizations and Office 365 appears to be least popular being used in just 11.7% of organizations.

Have you heard about DocRead for SharePoint?

Nearly 28% of you have heard of DocRead for SharePoint, 63% have not and 9% did not answer (which we assume means ‘no’!). It would be rude of me not to take the opportunity to impart a bit of knowledge! I know you are busy, so here's a speedy overview:

Get policies read and confirmed Request that employees read and agree to key documents stored in Microsoft SharePoint.	Assign tasks with no effort As employees change teams, site or role, ensure that their reading list is always in sync.
Track in Real-Time Make the process of chasing non-compliant users a breeze, by viewing up to the second reports.	Keep staff notified of their reading As required reading is assigned, completed or overdue, DocRead notifies users every step of the way.
Record the "who", "what" and "when" DocRead Receipts store who read what documents and when acting as a great auditing solution.	Quickly see what's happening DocRead Charts can be placed anywhere and quickly allow users to visualize the status of their tasks.

What do you use SharePoint for?

We offered the choice of six options (Dashboard and Reporting, Document Management, Hosting Apps, Internet Site, Publishing and Social) and on average you chose 2.8 each. As expected the most popular reason for using SharePoint is for Document Management. Over 85% of you confirmed Document Management as a major use of SharePoint within your organisations. The next most popular use was Publishing (55%) closely followed by Dashboard and Reporting (47%).

What else do you use SharePoint for ?

Which components do you use!

Only 128 of you answered this one, with the most popular answer (35) being that you didn’t use any or weren’t allowed to use any add-ons for various reasons.

What components / web parts do you have on your Organization Intranet page?

Well – what a variety of web parts you all use! On average you have 6 different components on your home page, the maximum reported was an impressive 16! The most popular was a Search Box that 76.5% of you reported using, closely followed by News items (72.1%) and Quick Links (69.2%).

Least popular were World Clock (11.7%) and Email this page (13.0%)

What other components do you use on your Intranet home page?

Wow - it looks like you use a lots of additional web parts (on top of the ones listed above)...