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August 6, 2009

The Forrester Wave™: Collaboration
Platforms, Q3 2009
by Rob Koplowitz
for Information & Knowledge Management Professionals




     Making Leaders Successful Every Day
For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals
                                                                                                                         Includes a Forrester Wave™

               August 6, 2009
               The Forrester Wave™: Collaboration Platforms,
               Q3 2009
               Microsoft And IbM lotus lead; novell Challenges
               by Rob Koplowitz
               with Matthew brown and Sara burnes


ExECuT I v E S u M MA Ry
In Forrester’s 66-criteria evaluation of collaboration platform vendors, we found that Microsoft and IBM
Lotus led the pack based on the breadth of functionality in their offerings. Novell edged into the Leaders’
quadrant with its Teaming product. MindTouch, the only open source option in this Forrester Wave,
landed as a Strong Performer. Open Text represented a strong option, particularly for current Open Text
ECM Suite customers. Atlassian, Jive Software, Socialtext, and Traction Software all approach the market
with strong social networking capabilities. New entrant Cisco WebEx debuted as a Contender and will
look to disrupt the market landscape over time. Central Desktop is the only pure software-as-a-service
(SaaS) offering with a focus on small and medium businesses, as well as enterprise departments.

TAbl E o F Co n TE n TS                                                          n oT E S & RE S o u RCE S
 2 Collaborative Platforms Drive Knowledge                                       Forrester conducted demo-based evaluations
   Worker Efficiency, Lower Risk                                                 in Q1 2009 and interviewed 11 vendor and user
 3 Evaluation Overview: Breadth And Depth Can                                    companies: Atlassian, Central Desktop, Cisco
   Be At Odds                                                                    WebEx, IbM lotus, Jive Software, Microsoft,
                                                                                 MindTouch, novell, open Text, Socialtext, and
     Evaluated vendors Demonstrate Enterprise
     Rigor And Traction                                                          Traction Software.

 5 The Results: Traditionals Lead, But The Overall
                                                                                 Related Research Documents
   Landscape Is Richer Than Ever
                                                                                 Collaboration And Web 2.0 Technology
     Two vendors That Are not Included In This                                   Adoption, Q4 2008
     Evaluation Show Strong Future Potential                                     April 2, 2009
 9 Vendor Profiles                                                               notes versus SharePoint: Which Collaboration
     leaders                                                                     Platform Is Right For you?
     Strong Performers                                                           november 7, 2008
     Contenders
11 Supplemental Material




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    COLLABORATIVE PLATfORMS DRIVE KnOWLEDgE WORKER EffICIEnCy, LOWER RISK
    The vast majority of collaboration continues to take place through email, with knowledge workers
    passing file attachments. The fundamental inefficiencies of this approach are creating numerous
    enterprise pain points. Users cannot find the most current version of content. There is very little
    structure available in email to drive best practices. Content artifacts — like documents and threaded
    discussions — are not easily reusable. And it is difficult and costly to identify content that requires
    special handling for compliance, security, and privacy purposes.

    To address these inefficiencies, organizations have embraced collaborative platform technologies. By
    moving collaboration from email to workspaces for basic team-based document collaboration —
    collaborative applications for building more robust content-centric collaborative applications, that
    may include custom coding, and workflow and social networks that enable Facebook-like capabilities
    within the enterprise, companies realize a number of benefits:

       · Knowledge worker efficiency. By providing users with a single place to store and collaborate
         on content, collaborative platforms remove inefficiencies associated with collaboration through
         email. Basic library services like check-in, checkout, and versioning allow greater control over
         content creation and sharing. Further, IT’s ability to build and deploy custom templates and
         workflow drives more efficient and effective business process flows.

       · Improved knowledge capture. Information stored in email systems is difficult to leverage for
         future reuse. By moving content into a collaborative platform, workers can more easily discover
         and reuse knowledge artifacts — like presentations, forms, and images. Consider, for example,
         the value of capturing and reusing even a small number of the documents, discussions, and
         activities associated with developing a complex sales proposal.

       · More effective management of content. Not all content is created equal. Some content, like
         repair manuals or official memos, need to be managed more stringently for reasons of accuracy,
         compliance, discovery, security, and/or privacy. By moving users into collaborative platforms,
         it becomes easier to identify content that requires special handling and to apply policy
         management within the platform or move content programmatically into a separate system of
         record.

       · Increased social networking effect. Social networking capabilities, like those found on the
         popular consumer site Facebook, are quickly augmenting the value of traditional email or
         document-focused collaboration tools. Enterprise-focused social networking capabilities greatly
         enhance knowledge workers’ ability to access relevant content and expertise in a business
         setting. Collaborative platforms are increasingly providing social networking capabilities and/or
         integrating with best-of-breed product offerings.1




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EVALuATIOn OVERVIEW: BREADTh AnD DEPTh CAn BE AT ODDS
To assess the state of the collaborative platforms market and see how the vendors stack up against
each other, Forrester evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of top collaborative platform
vendors. Given the current market landscape, Forrester included a number of vendors that address
collaboration from a social networking perspective, as well as more traditional collaborative
platform vendors.

After examining past research, user need assessments, and vendor and expert interviews, we
developed a comprehensive set of evaluation criteria. We evaluated vendors against more than 60
criteria, which we grouped into three high-level buckets:

   · Current offering. To assess product strength, we evaluated each offering against seven groups
     of criteria: 1) collaboration platform; 2) language support; 3) architecture and administration;
     4) monitoring and reporting; 5) security; 6) cross-platform support; and 7) Information
     Workplace readiness.

   · Strategy. We reviewed each vendor’s strategy, evaluating how well the vendor’s planned
     enhancements will position it for market leadership and whether or not the vendor has the
     financial resources to support that strategy.

   · Market presence. To determine a vendor’s market presence, we evaluated each vendor’s
     financial performance, installed base, integration partners, professional services, number of
     employees, and technology partners.

Evaluated Vendors Demonstrate Enterprise Rigor And Traction
Forrester included 11 vendors in the assessment: Atlassian, Central Desktop, Cisco WebEx, IBM
Lotus, Jive Software, Microsoft, MindTouch, Novell, Open Text, Socialtext, and Traction Software.
Each of these vendors has (see Figure 1):

   · Collaborative workspace capabilities. This includes the ability to store and manage multiple
     artifacts with the space, not just the ability to share content over a network.

   · Basic content management capabilities. These capabilities allow users to access a single copy of
     an artifact through the network.

   · The ability to customize the space for specific business purposes. Personalized dashboards,
     workspace templates, and workflow capability are examples of customizability.

   · Enterprise capabilities for security and authentication. Access-control lists (ACLs), single-
     sign on through Active Directory or LDAP support, and enterprise rights management
     capabilities (ERM) are some of the key components for enterprise security and authentication
     offered by these vendors.


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       · A development environment for building custom collaboration applications. The evaluated
         vendors provide development options for firms with very specific internal needs or for power
         users who want to self-provision custom applications.

       · At least 25 reference customers. Products with at least 25 enterprise and SMB reference
         customers have reached a reasonable level of maturity and have been tested in the field.

       · An installed base of 1 million users or more. Though the number of active users may vary,
         these collaboration platforms have each been deployed to at least 1 million users.

    figure 1 Evaluated vendors: Product Information And Selection Criteria

                                                                                  Product version           Version
    Vendor                      Product evaluated                                    evaluated            release date
    Atlassian                   Confluence                                                3.0                June 2009

    Central Desktop             Enterprise Edition                                       n/a                   SaaS

    Cisco WebEx                 Connect                                                  5.0                   SaaS

    IBM Lotus                   Connections, Mashups, Notes, Quickr               2.0/1.1/8.5/8.1.1      June 2008/2009

    Jive Software               SBS                                                      3.0                May 2009

    Microsoft                   SharePoint Server 2007 CAL, Enterprise Edition,          3.0            November 2006
                                SharePoint Designer 2007
    MindTouch                   2009 Enterprise                                        9.02.2               April 2009

    Novell                      Teaming                                                  2.0                July 2009
    Open Text                   Open Text ECM Suite (with Social Media 1.0)              3.5                June 2009

    Socialtext                  Socialtext                                               2.0               March 2009

    Traction Software           TeamPage                                                 4.1             December 2008

                                                  Vendor selection criteria
    How well does the solution provide collaborative workspace capabilities?

    How well does the solution provide basic content management capabilities?

    How well does the solution provide the ability to customize the space for specific business purposes?

    How well does the solution provide enterprise capabilities for security and authentication?

    How well does the solution provide a development environment for development of custom applications?

    Does the solution have at least 25 reference customers?

    Does the solution have an installed base of 1 million users or more?

    47748                                                                                   Source: Forrester Research, Inc.



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Vendors Come At This Market from Different Starting Points
The collaborative platform market is not new. However, it has evolved greatly over the past several
years. New communication and content generation patterns — like microblogging, activity streams,
and business social networks — attracted many new and highly relevant vendors to the market from
social networking perspective. Information and knowledge management (IKM) pros increasingly
compare these vendors to more traditional collaboration vendors because of their ability to address
similar business issues around sharing information. At the same time, traditional collaboration
vendors have recognized and reacted to the unique capabilities of social networking and are actively
building these capabilities into their offerings. Lastly, traditional content management vendors
continue to extend into collaboration, building out social capabilities as well. The result is a market
where vendors from different market segments are converging on the same opportunities (see
Figure 2). Depending on your core requirements, vendors from one area may be more appropriate
for your needs.

figure 2 Collaborative Platforms Are At The Intersection of Collaboration, Content, And Social

                                                            Content
                                                            vendors




                                                            Content
                                                           generation




                                              Collaboration               Social
                          Traditional vendors                                      New-breed vendors


                                                                                              Source: Forrester Research, Inc.




ThE RESuLTS: TRADITIOnALS LEAD, BuT ThE OVERALL LAnDSCAPE IS RIChER ThAn
EVER
The evaluation uncovered a market in which (see Figure 3):

   · Traditional vendors IBM, Microsoft and Novell lead on breadth of offering. The vendors
     that have dominated the collaboration landscape for nearly two decades have all invested
     heavily over the past three years to keep their offerings at the forefront in terms of overall
     functionality. IBM Lotus placed a big bet on social functionality with the introduction of
     Quickr and Connections that has paid off. Microsoft has made SharePoint the centerpiece of




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         its collaborative platform strategy and has seen strong adoption of Microsoft Office SharePoint
         Server 2007.2 Meanwhile, Novell’s acquisition of SiteScape and rebranding as Novell Teaming
         has placed it in a solid position as a collaborative platform vendor.

       · Challengers all demonstrate unique strengths. While traditional vendors offer broad
         functionality, a wide array of challengers offers unique and compelling value propositions. A
         number of vendors have jumped into the collaborative platform fray from the perspective of
         social networking and have made investments in core collaboration capabilities like workspaces
         to meet customer demands. These vendors, Atlassian, Jive Software, Socialtext, and Traction
         Software, can provide standalone collaborative platform capabilities or integrate as best-
         of-class social tools within an incumbent vendor’s platform. MindTouch has built a strong
         offering and staked out the favored position among organizations with open source leanings.
         Enterprise content management (ECM) vendors have also entered the market. For example,
         Open Text continues to position its collaboration offerings as an adjacent capability to its
         overall ECM Suite. Open Text has invested heavily in upgrading its existing offering with social
         capabilities. Central Desktop is a pure SaaS offering and has focused on SMB and departmental
         opportunities, but it will look to move upstream within enterprises as SaaS becomes more a
         more mainstream option.3

       · Cisco WebEx debuts as a Contender. Cisco WebEx has broken out of its traditional place as
        Web conferencing vendor with the addition of WebEx Connect, which includes workspace
        capabilities focused on more efficient team collaboration around document creation. Cisco is
        focusing on lightweight workspace capabilities that are easily accessed through its SaaS model.

    This evaluation of the collaboration platform market is intended only to be a starting point. We
    encourage readers to view detailed product evaluations and adapt the criteria weightings to fit their
    individual needs through the Forrester Wave™ Excel-based vendor comparison tool.




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figure 3 Forrester Wave™: Collaboration Platforms, Q3 ’09

           Risky                              Strong
           Bets      Contenders             Performers                     Leaders
 Strong

                                                                       IBM Lotus
                                                                                Microsoft         Go online to download
                                                                                                  the Forrester Wave tool

                                         MindTouch                                                for more detailed product
                                                           Open Text                              evaluations, feature
                               Jive Software
                                                Atlassian                                         comparisons, and
                                                                  Novell
                          Traction Software                                                       customizable rankings.
                            Central Desktop           Socialtext
Current
offering                                    Cisco WebEx




            Market presence

                              Full vendor participation

 Weak

            Weak                                 Strategy                             Strong

                                                                                                Source: Forrester Research, Inc.




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    figure 3 Forrester Wave™: Collaboration Platforms Q3 ’09 (Cont.)




                                                                                             Jive Software
                                                                  Cisco WebEx




                                                                                                                         MindTouch
                            Weighting
                            Forrester’s




                                                                                                                                                 Open Text
                                                                                IBM Lotus




                                                                                                                                                             Socialtext
                                                                                                             Microsoft
                                            Atlassian




                                                                                                                                                                          Software
                                                        Desktop




                                                                                                                                                                          Traction
                                                        Central




                                                                                                                                        Novell
    CURRENT OFFERING 50%                    3.43        2.82      2.34          4.48         3.48            4.27        3.74           3.19     2.84        2.84 3.08
      Team collaboration 30%                3.53        3.15      1.75          3.95         3.20            3.98        3.65           3.70     3.80        3.80 3.13
      platform
      Team collaboration 10%                2.25        1.00      1.50          5.00         1.50            5.00        4.00           1.75     1.00        1.00 1.00
      language localization
      Architecture and    10%               4.50        2.50      2.50          4.50         4.00            4.13        4.00           3.50     4.50        4.50 3.00
      administration
      Event logs,         15%               3.08        4.34      3.30          5.00         5.00            5.00        4.67           2.65     2.32        2.32 4.26
      monitoring, and
      reporting
      Security            10%               3.00        2.60      3.30          4.40         3.10            4.30        3.90           3.70     3.50        3.50 3.70
      Cross-platform      10%               5.00        3.00      2.50          5.00         5.00            4.00        3.00           2.50     1.00        1.00 4.00
      support
      Information         15%               2.93        2.10      2.25          4.35         2.75            3.93        3.05           3.58     2.33        2.33 2.23
      Workplace readiness
    STRATEGY              50%               2.51        2.18      2.86          4.34         2.18            5.00        2.67           3.85     3.00        2.51 2.18
      Executive vision 100%                 2.51        2.18      2.86          4.34         2.18            5.00        2.67           3.85     3.00        2.51 2.18
      and strategy
    MARKET PRESENCE         0%              2.58        1.15      2.85          5.00         1.78            5.00        2.78           4.35     3.88        1.33         1.43
      Installed base      50%               1.40        1.00      2.60          5.00         1.40            5.00        1.60           4.00     3.20        1.00         1.00
      Employees           15%               2.00        2.00      4.50          5.00         2.50            5.00        1.50           4.00     3.50        2.00         1.50
      Partners            35%               4.50        1.00      2.50          5.00         2.00            5.00        5.00           5.00     5.00        1.50         2.00
    All scores are based on a scale of 0 (weak) to 5 (strong).
                                                                                                                                     Source: Forrester Research, Inc.




    Two Vendors That Are not Included In This Evaluation Show Strong future Potential
    In addition to the vendors identified in this collaborative platform Forrester Wave, two other
    significant vendors are in the process of re-entering the market with new product offerings. EMC
    Documentum has announced that its existing eRoom product will be replaced with a new Web
    2.0-centric offering called Center Stage. Oracle has also re-entered the market, replacing its Oracle
    Collaboration Suite offering with Oracle Beehive. Both of these offerings were too new to have
    garnered the appropriate level of adoption for inclusion in this evaluation, but they are potentially
    important offerings in the space that require close attention. Google also continues to invest in
    functionality that Forrester believes will ultimately make it a relevant collaborative platform vendor.




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VEnDOR PROfILES
Leaders
   · Microsoft’s bet on SharePoint pays off. Microsoft has chosen an integrated suite approach
     for its collaborative platform offering and has packed functionality into MOSS 2007. The
     market has responded well to this approach. While the primary initial use case for SharePoint
     is often document workspace functionality, the suite approach generally leads to broader
     adoption of functionality including search, portal, an application development platform,
     business intelligence in the form of PerformancePoint Services, and basic content management.
     Microsoft offers only basic social capabilities in the current version, but don’t expect that to
     persist with the upcoming version due out in early 2010.

   · IBM Lotus’s investment in social moves the bar. Building on a large installed base of Lotus
     Notes and Domino for collaboration, IBM Lotus has steadily introduced new products into
     the line. New collaborative platform capabilities came with Quickr, which offers basic content
     services and workspace capabilities and provides tight integration with IBM’s higher-end CM8
     and FileNet P8 content management offerings. IBM Lotus Connections marked an early entry
     into enterprise social tools, and that has helped keep the IBM Lotus offering at the head of
     the pack in functionality. IBM’s modular approach will allow it to continue to introduce new
     functionality aggressively.

   · Novell rounds out its collaboration offering. Novell has traditionally been a major player
     in the email and calendaring space, but it has lagged on the collaborative platform side.
     That changed with its acquisition of SiteScape, which was subsequently rebranded Novell
     Teaming. Teaming brings very strong capabilities for workspaces and collaborative application
     development, particularly in the area of workflow. Novell’s latest release adds strong social
     capabilities to the offering and rounds out the functionality to move Novell into the Leaders’
     quadrant.

Strong Performers
   · MindTouch resonates with open source customers. MindTouch represents a strong offering in
     the area of traditional collaboration and has addressed the Social Computing opportunity quite
     well. MindTouch benefits from being an open source offering with a large and active community
     behind the product. Introduction of new functionality is aggressive, as is expected with an open
     source offering. The open source community support moves MindTouch into a very strong
     position as a partner and provides customers with a wide array of add-on and integration
     offerings.

   · Open Text brings social to ECM. Open Text has been in the collaborative platform market
     for a long time with products like Livelink, and it has recently upgraded its offering with the
     introduction of Open Text Social Media. While the offering has strong collaboration and social




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          capabilities on its own, it becomes particularly effective when matched with the Open Text ECM
          Suite. When the offerings are combined, the Social Media offering can be tightly integrated with
          the back-end ECM capabilities to provide end-to-end content and collaboration functionality.
          Open Text Social Media should be on the evaluation radar screen of Open Text ECM shops.

        · Atlassian leverages strong IT ties. Some vendors focus on business users, some focus on
          IT. Atlassian is definitely in the latter category. Its Confluence offering has had very strong
          uptake that generally starts with IT and often with buyers who are already using Atlassian’s
          JIRA offering for developers. While Confluence is still billed as a wiki product, Atlassian has
          invested in community capabilities. Additionally, Confluence is supported by a large plug-in
          library and is built on a highly customizable platform. The extensible nature of the product is
          a very compelling aspect. Confluence also offers prebuilt integrations to Microsoft SharePoint
          and Lotus Connections, allowing stronger co-existence in heterogeneous collaborative platform
          environments.

        · Jive Software looks to create a new market segment. Jive has approached the collaboration
          market from the Social Computing perspective and has placed a very strong emphasis on
          community capabilities. With Jive SBS (formerly Clearspace), Jive looks to create a new industry
          segment for enterprise social software. This positioning allows it to compete, often effectively,
          with more traditional collaborative platforms. Jive is one of several vendors in this evaluation
          that warrants strong consideration when social tool sets are top of mind and traditional
          document- or email-based collaboration is secondary.

        · Socialtext brings the latest in social concepts to the enterprise. Socialtext has focused on
          leveraging new and innovative content generation and communication capabilities from the
          open Internet and bringing them to the enterprise. Starting out as a wiki vendor, Socialtext was
          among the first to introduce social networking and most recently microblogging with its recent
          introduction of Socialtext Signals, which brings Twitter-like functionality to the enterprise.
          Each new piece of functionality integrates with and leverages the rest of the product offering.
          Socialtext focuses on providing business solutions and sells largely to business buyers. Like a
          number of vendors in this Forrester Wave, Socialtext focuses on social tools first. To that end, it
          provides integration with Lotus Connections and Microsoft SharePoint.

        · Traction Software looks to simplify collaboration. Traction’s TeamPage has been around for
         a decade and was a pioneer in applying blog and wiki constructs to the enterprise. Traction’s
         goal was and remains simplifying knowledge worker communications and content generation.
         The result has been an offering that is now enterprise hardened and has seen strong adoption in
         highly rigorous verticals like government and pharma. Traction has remained committed to its
         vision of a simple collaboration platform with a user experience that will drive fast adoption —
         it should be on your shortlist where that meets your organizational collaboration goals.




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Contenders
   · Cisco WebEx will be the right answer for some now, more later. Cisco WebEx has long
     been highly relevant in real-time collaboration with its Web conferencing offering. With the
     introduction of WebEx Connect, Cisco WebEx now offers collaborative platform capabilities
     as well. As a new entrant in the space, Cisco WebEx has focused on providing basic workspace
     capabilities for sharing and collaborating on documents. These high-value capabilities can be
     easily and quickly provisioned through its SaaS-only offering. While the overall functionality is
     limited, the core value proposition of a document collaborative workspace is well executed and
     the user experience is simple and intuitive. Look to Cisco WebEx to build on this early effort by
     leveraging its SaaS delivery model to aggressively introduce new functionality.

   · Central Desktop aims to serve small and medium businesses and departments. Central
     Desktop is offered in a pure software-as-a-service model and is attractive to organizations and
     departments that are looking to deploy quickly and easily without IT support. To that end,
     Central Desktop may lack some higher-end enterprise capabilities, but it’s likely that those areas
     of functionality are not of interest to its target market.


SuPPLEMEnTAL MATERIAL
Online Resource
The online version of Figure 3 is an Excel-based vendor comparison tool that provides detailed
product evaluations and customizable rankings.

Data Sources used In This forrester Wave
Forrester used a combination of two data sources to assess the strengths and weaknesses of each
solution:

   · Product demos. We asked vendors to conduct demonstrations of their product’s functionality.
     We used findings from these product demos to validate details of each vendor’s product
     capabilities.

   · Customer reference calls. To validate product and vendor qualifications, Forrester also
     conducted reference calls with two of each vendor’s current customers.

The forrester Wave Methodology
We conduct primary research to develop a list of vendors that meet our criteria to be evaluated
in this market. From that initial pool of vendors, we then narrow our final list. We choose these
vendors based on: 1) product fit; 2) customer success; and 3) Forrester client demand. We eliminate
vendors that have limited customer references and products that don’t fit the scope of our evaluation.




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     After examining past research, user need assessments, and vendor and expert interviews, we develop
     the initial evaluation criteria. To evaluate the vendors and their products against our set of criteria,
     we gather details of product qualifications through a combination of lab evaluations, questionnaires,
     demos, and/or discussions with client references. We send evaluations to the vendors for their
     review, and we adjust the evaluations to provide the most accurate view of vendor offerings and
     strategies.

     We set default weightings to reflect our analysis of the needs of large user companies — and/or
     other scenarios as outlined in the Forrester Wave document — and then score the vendors based
     on a clearly defined scale. These default weightings are intended only as a starting point, and we
     encourage readers to adapt the weightings to fit their individual needs through the Excel-based
     tool. The final scores generate the graphical depiction of the market based on current offering,
     strategy, and market presence. Forrester intends to update vendor evaluations regularly as product
     capabilities and vendor strategies evolve.


     EnDnOTES
     1
         The social networking effect on collaboration has been significant. For a more in-depth analysis of the
         phenomenon, see the April 30, 2008, “Social Computing Changes The Enterprise Collaboration Landscape”
         report.
     2
          SharePoint adoption has been strong since the introduction of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
          2007. In Forrester’s March 2008 North American And Western European Enterprise Microsoft Office
          2007 Adoption Online Survey, the question, “ Which of the following best describes your organization’s
          time for implementing or upgrading to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server?” resulted in 24% answering
         “immediately” and 41% answering “within six months”.
     3
         Collaboration in a cloud model is becoming increasingly accepted for organizations that need or wish to
         bypass the requirements of an on-premise implementation. For small and medium businesses, this is a
         particularly compelling option. For a more in-depth analysis of cloud-based collaboration, see the March
         18, 2008, “Get Ready For Collaboration In the Cloud” report.




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Wave collaboration platforms_q3_2009

  • 1. August 6, 2009 The Forrester Wave™: Collaboration Platforms, Q3 2009 by Rob Koplowitz for Information & Knowledge Management Professionals Making Leaders Successful Every Day
  • 2. For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals Includes a Forrester Wave™ August 6, 2009 The Forrester Wave™: Collaboration Platforms, Q3 2009 Microsoft And IbM lotus lead; novell Challenges by Rob Koplowitz with Matthew brown and Sara burnes ExECuT I v E S u M MA Ry In Forrester’s 66-criteria evaluation of collaboration platform vendors, we found that Microsoft and IBM Lotus led the pack based on the breadth of functionality in their offerings. Novell edged into the Leaders’ quadrant with its Teaming product. MindTouch, the only open source option in this Forrester Wave, landed as a Strong Performer. Open Text represented a strong option, particularly for current Open Text ECM Suite customers. Atlassian, Jive Software, Socialtext, and Traction Software all approach the market with strong social networking capabilities. New entrant Cisco WebEx debuted as a Contender and will look to disrupt the market landscape over time. Central Desktop is the only pure software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering with a focus on small and medium businesses, as well as enterprise departments. TAbl E o F Co n TE n TS n oT E S & RE S o u RCE S 2 Collaborative Platforms Drive Knowledge Forrester conducted demo-based evaluations Worker Efficiency, Lower Risk in Q1 2009 and interviewed 11 vendor and user 3 Evaluation Overview: Breadth And Depth Can companies: Atlassian, Central Desktop, Cisco Be At Odds WebEx, IbM lotus, Jive Software, Microsoft, MindTouch, novell, open Text, Socialtext, and Evaluated vendors Demonstrate Enterprise Rigor And Traction Traction Software. 5 The Results: Traditionals Lead, But The Overall Related Research Documents Landscape Is Richer Than Ever Collaboration And Web 2.0 Technology Two vendors That Are not Included In This Adoption, Q4 2008 Evaluation Show Strong Future Potential April 2, 2009 9 Vendor Profiles notes versus SharePoint: Which Collaboration leaders Platform Is Right For you? Strong Performers november 7, 2008 Contenders 11 Supplemental Material © 2009, Forrester Research, Inc. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction is strictly prohibited. Information is based on best available resources. Opinions reflect judgment at the time and are subject to change. Forrester®, Technographics®, Forrester Wave, RoleView, TechRadar, and Total Economic Impact are trademarks of Forrester Research, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. To purchase reprints of this document, please email clientsupport@forrester.com. For additional information, go to www.forrester.com.
  • 3. 2 The Forrester Wave™: Collaboration Platforms, Q3 2009 For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals COLLABORATIVE PLATfORMS DRIVE KnOWLEDgE WORKER EffICIEnCy, LOWER RISK The vast majority of collaboration continues to take place through email, with knowledge workers passing file attachments. The fundamental inefficiencies of this approach are creating numerous enterprise pain points. Users cannot find the most current version of content. There is very little structure available in email to drive best practices. Content artifacts — like documents and threaded discussions — are not easily reusable. And it is difficult and costly to identify content that requires special handling for compliance, security, and privacy purposes. To address these inefficiencies, organizations have embraced collaborative platform technologies. By moving collaboration from email to workspaces for basic team-based document collaboration — collaborative applications for building more robust content-centric collaborative applications, that may include custom coding, and workflow and social networks that enable Facebook-like capabilities within the enterprise, companies realize a number of benefits: · Knowledge worker efficiency. By providing users with a single place to store and collaborate on content, collaborative platforms remove inefficiencies associated with collaboration through email. Basic library services like check-in, checkout, and versioning allow greater control over content creation and sharing. Further, IT’s ability to build and deploy custom templates and workflow drives more efficient and effective business process flows. · Improved knowledge capture. Information stored in email systems is difficult to leverage for future reuse. By moving content into a collaborative platform, workers can more easily discover and reuse knowledge artifacts — like presentations, forms, and images. Consider, for example, the value of capturing and reusing even a small number of the documents, discussions, and activities associated with developing a complex sales proposal. · More effective management of content. Not all content is created equal. Some content, like repair manuals or official memos, need to be managed more stringently for reasons of accuracy, compliance, discovery, security, and/or privacy. By moving users into collaborative platforms, it becomes easier to identify content that requires special handling and to apply policy management within the platform or move content programmatically into a separate system of record. · Increased social networking effect. Social networking capabilities, like those found on the popular consumer site Facebook, are quickly augmenting the value of traditional email or document-focused collaboration tools. Enterprise-focused social networking capabilities greatly enhance knowledge workers’ ability to access relevant content and expertise in a business setting. Collaborative platforms are increasingly providing social networking capabilities and/or integrating with best-of-breed product offerings.1 August 6, 2009 © 2009, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited
  • 4. The Forrester Wave™: Collaboration Platforms, Q3 2009 3 For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals EVALuATIOn OVERVIEW: BREADTh AnD DEPTh CAn BE AT ODDS To assess the state of the collaborative platforms market and see how the vendors stack up against each other, Forrester evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of top collaborative platform vendors. Given the current market landscape, Forrester included a number of vendors that address collaboration from a social networking perspective, as well as more traditional collaborative platform vendors. After examining past research, user need assessments, and vendor and expert interviews, we developed a comprehensive set of evaluation criteria. We evaluated vendors against more than 60 criteria, which we grouped into three high-level buckets: · Current offering. To assess product strength, we evaluated each offering against seven groups of criteria: 1) collaboration platform; 2) language support; 3) architecture and administration; 4) monitoring and reporting; 5) security; 6) cross-platform support; and 7) Information Workplace readiness. · Strategy. We reviewed each vendor’s strategy, evaluating how well the vendor’s planned enhancements will position it for market leadership and whether or not the vendor has the financial resources to support that strategy. · Market presence. To determine a vendor’s market presence, we evaluated each vendor’s financial performance, installed base, integration partners, professional services, number of employees, and technology partners. Evaluated Vendors Demonstrate Enterprise Rigor And Traction Forrester included 11 vendors in the assessment: Atlassian, Central Desktop, Cisco WebEx, IBM Lotus, Jive Software, Microsoft, MindTouch, Novell, Open Text, Socialtext, and Traction Software. Each of these vendors has (see Figure 1): · Collaborative workspace capabilities. This includes the ability to store and manage multiple artifacts with the space, not just the ability to share content over a network. · Basic content management capabilities. These capabilities allow users to access a single copy of an artifact through the network. · The ability to customize the space for specific business purposes. Personalized dashboards, workspace templates, and workflow capability are examples of customizability. · Enterprise capabilities for security and authentication. Access-control lists (ACLs), single- sign on through Active Directory or LDAP support, and enterprise rights management capabilities (ERM) are some of the key components for enterprise security and authentication offered by these vendors. © 2009, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited August 6, 2009
  • 5. 4 The Forrester Wave™: Collaboration Platforms, Q3 2009 For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals · A development environment for building custom collaboration applications. The evaluated vendors provide development options for firms with very specific internal needs or for power users who want to self-provision custom applications. · At least 25 reference customers. Products with at least 25 enterprise and SMB reference customers have reached a reasonable level of maturity and have been tested in the field. · An installed base of 1 million users or more. Though the number of active users may vary, these collaboration platforms have each been deployed to at least 1 million users. figure 1 Evaluated vendors: Product Information And Selection Criteria Product version Version Vendor Product evaluated evaluated release date Atlassian Confluence 3.0 June 2009 Central Desktop Enterprise Edition n/a SaaS Cisco WebEx Connect 5.0 SaaS IBM Lotus Connections, Mashups, Notes, Quickr 2.0/1.1/8.5/8.1.1 June 2008/2009 Jive Software SBS 3.0 May 2009 Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 CAL, Enterprise Edition, 3.0 November 2006 SharePoint Designer 2007 MindTouch 2009 Enterprise 9.02.2 April 2009 Novell Teaming 2.0 July 2009 Open Text Open Text ECM Suite (with Social Media 1.0) 3.5 June 2009 Socialtext Socialtext 2.0 March 2009 Traction Software TeamPage 4.1 December 2008 Vendor selection criteria How well does the solution provide collaborative workspace capabilities? How well does the solution provide basic content management capabilities? How well does the solution provide the ability to customize the space for specific business purposes? How well does the solution provide enterprise capabilities for security and authentication? How well does the solution provide a development environment for development of custom applications? Does the solution have at least 25 reference customers? Does the solution have an installed base of 1 million users or more? 47748 Source: Forrester Research, Inc. August 6, 2009 © 2009, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited
  • 6. The Forrester Wave™: Collaboration Platforms, Q3 2009 5 For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals Vendors Come At This Market from Different Starting Points The collaborative platform market is not new. However, it has evolved greatly over the past several years. New communication and content generation patterns — like microblogging, activity streams, and business social networks — attracted many new and highly relevant vendors to the market from social networking perspective. Information and knowledge management (IKM) pros increasingly compare these vendors to more traditional collaboration vendors because of their ability to address similar business issues around sharing information. At the same time, traditional collaboration vendors have recognized and reacted to the unique capabilities of social networking and are actively building these capabilities into their offerings. Lastly, traditional content management vendors continue to extend into collaboration, building out social capabilities as well. The result is a market where vendors from different market segments are converging on the same opportunities (see Figure 2). Depending on your core requirements, vendors from one area may be more appropriate for your needs. figure 2 Collaborative Platforms Are At The Intersection of Collaboration, Content, And Social Content vendors Content generation Collaboration Social Traditional vendors New-breed vendors Source: Forrester Research, Inc. ThE RESuLTS: TRADITIOnALS LEAD, BuT ThE OVERALL LAnDSCAPE IS RIChER ThAn EVER The evaluation uncovered a market in which (see Figure 3): · Traditional vendors IBM, Microsoft and Novell lead on breadth of offering. The vendors that have dominated the collaboration landscape for nearly two decades have all invested heavily over the past three years to keep their offerings at the forefront in terms of overall functionality. IBM Lotus placed a big bet on social functionality with the introduction of Quickr and Connections that has paid off. Microsoft has made SharePoint the centerpiece of © 2009, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited August 6, 2009
  • 7. 6 The Forrester Wave™: Collaboration Platforms, Q3 2009 For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals its collaborative platform strategy and has seen strong adoption of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.2 Meanwhile, Novell’s acquisition of SiteScape and rebranding as Novell Teaming has placed it in a solid position as a collaborative platform vendor. · Challengers all demonstrate unique strengths. While traditional vendors offer broad functionality, a wide array of challengers offers unique and compelling value propositions. A number of vendors have jumped into the collaborative platform fray from the perspective of social networking and have made investments in core collaboration capabilities like workspaces to meet customer demands. These vendors, Atlassian, Jive Software, Socialtext, and Traction Software, can provide standalone collaborative platform capabilities or integrate as best- of-class social tools within an incumbent vendor’s platform. MindTouch has built a strong offering and staked out the favored position among organizations with open source leanings. Enterprise content management (ECM) vendors have also entered the market. For example, Open Text continues to position its collaboration offerings as an adjacent capability to its overall ECM Suite. Open Text has invested heavily in upgrading its existing offering with social capabilities. Central Desktop is a pure SaaS offering and has focused on SMB and departmental opportunities, but it will look to move upstream within enterprises as SaaS becomes more a more mainstream option.3 · Cisco WebEx debuts as a Contender. Cisco WebEx has broken out of its traditional place as Web conferencing vendor with the addition of WebEx Connect, which includes workspace capabilities focused on more efficient team collaboration around document creation. Cisco is focusing on lightweight workspace capabilities that are easily accessed through its SaaS model. This evaluation of the collaboration platform market is intended only to be a starting point. We encourage readers to view detailed product evaluations and adapt the criteria weightings to fit their individual needs through the Forrester Wave™ Excel-based vendor comparison tool. August 6, 2009 © 2009, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited
  • 8. The Forrester Wave™: Collaboration Platforms, Q3 2009 7 For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals figure 3 Forrester Wave™: Collaboration Platforms, Q3 ’09 Risky Strong Bets Contenders Performers Leaders Strong IBM Lotus Microsoft Go online to download the Forrester Wave tool MindTouch for more detailed product Open Text evaluations, feature Jive Software Atlassian comparisons, and Novell Traction Software customizable rankings. Central Desktop Socialtext Current offering Cisco WebEx Market presence Full vendor participation Weak Weak Strategy Strong Source: Forrester Research, Inc. © 2009, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited August 6, 2009
  • 9. 8 The Forrester Wave™: Collaboration Platforms, Q3 2009 For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals figure 3 Forrester Wave™: Collaboration Platforms Q3 ’09 (Cont.) Jive Software Cisco WebEx MindTouch Weighting Forrester’s Open Text IBM Lotus Socialtext Microsoft Atlassian Software Desktop Traction Central Novell CURRENT OFFERING 50% 3.43 2.82 2.34 4.48 3.48 4.27 3.74 3.19 2.84 2.84 3.08 Team collaboration 30% 3.53 3.15 1.75 3.95 3.20 3.98 3.65 3.70 3.80 3.80 3.13 platform Team collaboration 10% 2.25 1.00 1.50 5.00 1.50 5.00 4.00 1.75 1.00 1.00 1.00 language localization Architecture and 10% 4.50 2.50 2.50 4.50 4.00 4.13 4.00 3.50 4.50 4.50 3.00 administration Event logs, 15% 3.08 4.34 3.30 5.00 5.00 5.00 4.67 2.65 2.32 2.32 4.26 monitoring, and reporting Security 10% 3.00 2.60 3.30 4.40 3.10 4.30 3.90 3.70 3.50 3.50 3.70 Cross-platform 10% 5.00 3.00 2.50 5.00 5.00 4.00 3.00 2.50 1.00 1.00 4.00 support Information 15% 2.93 2.10 2.25 4.35 2.75 3.93 3.05 3.58 2.33 2.33 2.23 Workplace readiness STRATEGY 50% 2.51 2.18 2.86 4.34 2.18 5.00 2.67 3.85 3.00 2.51 2.18 Executive vision 100% 2.51 2.18 2.86 4.34 2.18 5.00 2.67 3.85 3.00 2.51 2.18 and strategy MARKET PRESENCE 0% 2.58 1.15 2.85 5.00 1.78 5.00 2.78 4.35 3.88 1.33 1.43 Installed base 50% 1.40 1.00 2.60 5.00 1.40 5.00 1.60 4.00 3.20 1.00 1.00 Employees 15% 2.00 2.00 4.50 5.00 2.50 5.00 1.50 4.00 3.50 2.00 1.50 Partners 35% 4.50 1.00 2.50 5.00 2.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 1.50 2.00 All scores are based on a scale of 0 (weak) to 5 (strong). Source: Forrester Research, Inc. Two Vendors That Are not Included In This Evaluation Show Strong future Potential In addition to the vendors identified in this collaborative platform Forrester Wave, two other significant vendors are in the process of re-entering the market with new product offerings. EMC Documentum has announced that its existing eRoom product will be replaced with a new Web 2.0-centric offering called Center Stage. Oracle has also re-entered the market, replacing its Oracle Collaboration Suite offering with Oracle Beehive. Both of these offerings were too new to have garnered the appropriate level of adoption for inclusion in this evaluation, but they are potentially important offerings in the space that require close attention. Google also continues to invest in functionality that Forrester believes will ultimately make it a relevant collaborative platform vendor. August 6, 2009 © 2009, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited
  • 10. The Forrester Wave™: Collaboration Platforms, Q3 2009 9 For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals VEnDOR PROfILES Leaders · Microsoft’s bet on SharePoint pays off. Microsoft has chosen an integrated suite approach for its collaborative platform offering and has packed functionality into MOSS 2007. The market has responded well to this approach. While the primary initial use case for SharePoint is often document workspace functionality, the suite approach generally leads to broader adoption of functionality including search, portal, an application development platform, business intelligence in the form of PerformancePoint Services, and basic content management. Microsoft offers only basic social capabilities in the current version, but don’t expect that to persist with the upcoming version due out in early 2010. · IBM Lotus’s investment in social moves the bar. Building on a large installed base of Lotus Notes and Domino for collaboration, IBM Lotus has steadily introduced new products into the line. New collaborative platform capabilities came with Quickr, which offers basic content services and workspace capabilities and provides tight integration with IBM’s higher-end CM8 and FileNet P8 content management offerings. IBM Lotus Connections marked an early entry into enterprise social tools, and that has helped keep the IBM Lotus offering at the head of the pack in functionality. IBM’s modular approach will allow it to continue to introduce new functionality aggressively. · Novell rounds out its collaboration offering. Novell has traditionally been a major player in the email and calendaring space, but it has lagged on the collaborative platform side. That changed with its acquisition of SiteScape, which was subsequently rebranded Novell Teaming. Teaming brings very strong capabilities for workspaces and collaborative application development, particularly in the area of workflow. Novell’s latest release adds strong social capabilities to the offering and rounds out the functionality to move Novell into the Leaders’ quadrant. Strong Performers · MindTouch resonates with open source customers. MindTouch represents a strong offering in the area of traditional collaboration and has addressed the Social Computing opportunity quite well. MindTouch benefits from being an open source offering with a large and active community behind the product. Introduction of new functionality is aggressive, as is expected with an open source offering. The open source community support moves MindTouch into a very strong position as a partner and provides customers with a wide array of add-on and integration offerings. · Open Text brings social to ECM. Open Text has been in the collaborative platform market for a long time with products like Livelink, and it has recently upgraded its offering with the introduction of Open Text Social Media. While the offering has strong collaboration and social © 2009, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited August 6, 2009
  • 11. 10 The Forrester Wave™: Collaboration Platforms, Q3 2009 For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals capabilities on its own, it becomes particularly effective when matched with the Open Text ECM Suite. When the offerings are combined, the Social Media offering can be tightly integrated with the back-end ECM capabilities to provide end-to-end content and collaboration functionality. Open Text Social Media should be on the evaluation radar screen of Open Text ECM shops. · Atlassian leverages strong IT ties. Some vendors focus on business users, some focus on IT. Atlassian is definitely in the latter category. Its Confluence offering has had very strong uptake that generally starts with IT and often with buyers who are already using Atlassian’s JIRA offering for developers. While Confluence is still billed as a wiki product, Atlassian has invested in community capabilities. Additionally, Confluence is supported by a large plug-in library and is built on a highly customizable platform. The extensible nature of the product is a very compelling aspect. Confluence also offers prebuilt integrations to Microsoft SharePoint and Lotus Connections, allowing stronger co-existence in heterogeneous collaborative platform environments. · Jive Software looks to create a new market segment. Jive has approached the collaboration market from the Social Computing perspective and has placed a very strong emphasis on community capabilities. With Jive SBS (formerly Clearspace), Jive looks to create a new industry segment for enterprise social software. This positioning allows it to compete, often effectively, with more traditional collaborative platforms. Jive is one of several vendors in this evaluation that warrants strong consideration when social tool sets are top of mind and traditional document- or email-based collaboration is secondary. · Socialtext brings the latest in social concepts to the enterprise. Socialtext has focused on leveraging new and innovative content generation and communication capabilities from the open Internet and bringing them to the enterprise. Starting out as a wiki vendor, Socialtext was among the first to introduce social networking and most recently microblogging with its recent introduction of Socialtext Signals, which brings Twitter-like functionality to the enterprise. Each new piece of functionality integrates with and leverages the rest of the product offering. Socialtext focuses on providing business solutions and sells largely to business buyers. Like a number of vendors in this Forrester Wave, Socialtext focuses on social tools first. To that end, it provides integration with Lotus Connections and Microsoft SharePoint. · Traction Software looks to simplify collaboration. Traction’s TeamPage has been around for a decade and was a pioneer in applying blog and wiki constructs to the enterprise. Traction’s goal was and remains simplifying knowledge worker communications and content generation. The result has been an offering that is now enterprise hardened and has seen strong adoption in highly rigorous verticals like government and pharma. Traction has remained committed to its vision of a simple collaboration platform with a user experience that will drive fast adoption — it should be on your shortlist where that meets your organizational collaboration goals. August 6, 2009 © 2009, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited
  • 12. The Forrester Wave™: Collaboration Platforms, Q3 2009 11 For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals Contenders · Cisco WebEx will be the right answer for some now, more later. Cisco WebEx has long been highly relevant in real-time collaboration with its Web conferencing offering. With the introduction of WebEx Connect, Cisco WebEx now offers collaborative platform capabilities as well. As a new entrant in the space, Cisco WebEx has focused on providing basic workspace capabilities for sharing and collaborating on documents. These high-value capabilities can be easily and quickly provisioned through its SaaS-only offering. While the overall functionality is limited, the core value proposition of a document collaborative workspace is well executed and the user experience is simple and intuitive. Look to Cisco WebEx to build on this early effort by leveraging its SaaS delivery model to aggressively introduce new functionality. · Central Desktop aims to serve small and medium businesses and departments. Central Desktop is offered in a pure software-as-a-service model and is attractive to organizations and departments that are looking to deploy quickly and easily without IT support. To that end, Central Desktop may lack some higher-end enterprise capabilities, but it’s likely that those areas of functionality are not of interest to its target market. SuPPLEMEnTAL MATERIAL Online Resource The online version of Figure 3 is an Excel-based vendor comparison tool that provides detailed product evaluations and customizable rankings. Data Sources used In This forrester Wave Forrester used a combination of two data sources to assess the strengths and weaknesses of each solution: · Product demos. We asked vendors to conduct demonstrations of their product’s functionality. We used findings from these product demos to validate details of each vendor’s product capabilities. · Customer reference calls. To validate product and vendor qualifications, Forrester also conducted reference calls with two of each vendor’s current customers. The forrester Wave Methodology We conduct primary research to develop a list of vendors that meet our criteria to be evaluated in this market. From that initial pool of vendors, we then narrow our final list. We choose these vendors based on: 1) product fit; 2) customer success; and 3) Forrester client demand. We eliminate vendors that have limited customer references and products that don’t fit the scope of our evaluation. © 2009, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited August 6, 2009
  • 13. 12 The Forrester Wave™: Collaboration Platforms, Q3 2009 For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals After examining past research, user need assessments, and vendor and expert interviews, we develop the initial evaluation criteria. To evaluate the vendors and their products against our set of criteria, we gather details of product qualifications through a combination of lab evaluations, questionnaires, demos, and/or discussions with client references. We send evaluations to the vendors for their review, and we adjust the evaluations to provide the most accurate view of vendor offerings and strategies. We set default weightings to reflect our analysis of the needs of large user companies — and/or other scenarios as outlined in the Forrester Wave document — and then score the vendors based on a clearly defined scale. These default weightings are intended only as a starting point, and we encourage readers to adapt the weightings to fit their individual needs through the Excel-based tool. The final scores generate the graphical depiction of the market based on current offering, strategy, and market presence. Forrester intends to update vendor evaluations regularly as product capabilities and vendor strategies evolve. EnDnOTES 1 The social networking effect on collaboration has been significant. For a more in-depth analysis of the phenomenon, see the April 30, 2008, “Social Computing Changes The Enterprise Collaboration Landscape” report. 2 SharePoint adoption has been strong since the introduction of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. In Forrester’s March 2008 North American And Western European Enterprise Microsoft Office 2007 Adoption Online Survey, the question, “ Which of the following best describes your organization’s time for implementing or upgrading to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server?” resulted in 24% answering “immediately” and 41% answering “within six months”. 3 Collaboration in a cloud model is becoming increasingly accepted for organizations that need or wish to bypass the requirements of an on-premise implementation. For small and medium businesses, this is a particularly compelling option. For a more in-depth analysis of cloud-based collaboration, see the March 18, 2008, “Get Ready For Collaboration In the Cloud” report. August 6, 2009 © 2009, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited
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