The Association for Information and Image Management AIIM recently published the results of their survey regarding the State of the ECM Industry in 2011. I will summarize here some of the findings concerning SharePoint.
About the Survey
The survey covers 650 individual members of the AIIM community between January 28,2011, and February 14, 2011. Survey Participants represent organizations of all sizes. Larger organizations over 5,000 employees represent 35%, with mid-sized organizations of 500 to 5,000 employees at 41%. Small-to-mid sized organizations with 10 to 500 employees constitute 24%. Organizations of less than 10 employees (26) are not included in the report.
The findings concerning SharePoint are classified in three headings; Adoption, Maturity and Governance, and Strategies.
Adoption
- 58% of respondents are already using SharePoint, rising to 70% of the largest organizations.
- SharePoint 2010 version has attracted 13% of respondents as first time SharePoint users
- Only 20% have no interest in SharePoint.
Maturity and Governance
- 27% admit that valuable content is being stored in SharePoint across the organization but there is no real guidance on what/how to store .
- 18% have stable and well-governed systems.
- only 5% of users would consider their SharePoint implementation to be fully optimized and integrated with other applications and repositories.
Strategies
- 11% of respondents have SharePoint as first document or content management suite.
- 49% are planning to integrate SharePoint with their existing – or new – ECM or records management suites.
- 24% have not yet formulated any plans to integrate SharePoint with their existing ECM/DM/RM systems
- 4% are phasing out existing systems in favour of SharePoint
For a full version of the report go to http://www.aiim.org/