Gartner Podcast: Driving User Adoption of SharePoint
Collaboration. It's a top IT priority and the key to enabling people to increase the effectiveness of their work while reducing the time, cost, and effort spent working together. But how can you drive mainstream user adoption of collaboration workspaces such as Microsoft SharePoint when your users are locked into using email? According to Gartner Analyst Matt Cain, a Vice President for Business Intelligence and Information Management:
"The fundamental fact is that most of collaboration is still occurring in email... But it's not necessarily the most efficient way to do your collaboration."
Gartner's Cain says one of the ways to encourage the use of SharePoint is to invest in easy access to SharePoint. He discusses the merits of two IT options for integrating email with SharePoint: migration to Outlook and Lotus Notes-SharePoint coexistence.
"Let's acknowledge that, up front, a migration from Domino to Exchange is not particularly simple and it's not particularly cheap...
"But in many cases, companies...may be perfectly happy with how Notes Domino is working for them…We think that you could actually have that combination where you're able to maintain your Domino application and your email infrastructure, and you can start to benefit by doing some integration between Notes and the SharePoint environment relying on third-party tools out there.
Download the podcast "Driving User Adoption of SharePoint in Lotus Notes Enterprises," to hear Cain's insights on collaboration in today's enterprise; emerging SharePoint adoption trends; and the opportunity to integrate email with SharePoint in order to drive mainstream user adoption.
Yaacov Cohen, President and CEO of Mainsoft, also presents strategic integration points between SharePoint and either Lotus Notes or Outlook, and he discusses Collaboration Analytics and a structured approach to measuring the impact that Lotus Notes integration with SharePoint has on user adoption:
"We see a dramatic increase in the number of documents being shared on SharePoint. Typically, it’s going to be at least twice or three times or more the number of shared documents now available for collaboration on SharePoint. At the same time, you see that the email traffic and the email storage are going down. This is because users are now sending links to shared documents on SharePoint, rather than sending physical attachments."
Listen to the podcast and find out if email migration with SharePoint is right for you.
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