2. The Evolution of Content Collaboration: How User Needs
Are Driving New Platform Requirements
Melissa Webster
VP, Content & Digital Media Technologies
@mwebster_idc
5. Rapid Adoption of File Sync & Share…
5
Yes,
implementing a
solution, IT will
support Yes, evaluating
solutions, IT will
support
Yes, plan to
implement in next
18 months, IT will
support
Don't know
No, and we forbid
users to self-
adopt
No, and users
haven't
expressed any
need
No, but we allow
users to self-
adopt
Yes, have
standardized on a
solution, IT
supports
% of Respondents
Q: Has IT deployed, or does IT plan to deploy, a SaaS file sync/share solution to users?
n=485, US/UK/France/Germany; IDC’s ECM Strategy Survey, October 2013
38%
14%
11%
6%
10%
8%
7% 6%
45%
6. …At the Expense of SharePoint
6
0 20 40 60 80 100
Web sites
Enterprise social platform
Imaging
Collaboration/team sites
Portals
Content/records management
Workflow
Using Plan Next 2 Years No Plans/DK
Q. Is your organization currently using or planning to use Microsoft SharePoint for…
% of Respondents
n=485, US/UK/France/Germany; IDC’s ECM Strategy Survey, October 2013
Portals and Collaboration/team
sites have historically been the
leading use cases for SharePoint.
Huge drop here!
7. FS&S Has High Value as a User Interface/
“System of Engagement”
7
N=485, US/UK/France/Germany; IDC’s ECM Strategy Survey, October 2013 Percentage that
agreed/strongly agreed with each item on a 1-5 scale.
% of Respondents
Light-weight' content
Can replace SharePoint
Help to offload IT support
Give IT a platform for
Ease of access/sharing
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
11. Continuum of Content Collaboration Needs
11
Ad Hoc Semi-Structured Structured
• File sharing with internal/external stakeholders
• File syncing—access to personal/team files
• Analytics and visibility into file usage
• Secure collaboration
• Team sites and business networks
• Projects and task management
• Analytics and visibility into collaboration
process
• Business process optimization, decisioning
• Extending enterprise applications
• Access to existing enterprise information
12. Changing Attitudes About Cloud on the ECM Side
12
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
Uuncomfortable storing enterprise content
in SaaS or public cloud
Deploying/want to deploy ECM in private
cloud
We're moving/want to move to a SaaS
ECM solution
Hybrid ECM solution (cloud file sync/share
with on-premise ECM) is very attractive
Proliferation of content on team sites is a
compliance/governance challenge
n=485 IT respondents
IDC’s ECM Strategy Survey, October 2013; US/EMEA. Percentage that agreed/strongly agreed with each statement (4 or 5 on 1-5 scale).
% of Respondents
13. Convergence of Collaboration and Content Management
13
Collaboration
§ File sync & share
§ Secure team
collaboration
Content Management
§ Workflow
§ Metadata
§ Governance
“Systems of
Engagement”
“Systems of
Record”
Requires a Platform Approach
• APIs, SDKs
• Content & application
integration
• Security, analytics, etc.
“Consumer IT” “Enterprise IT”
ECC