CIO Insight recently published an excellent article, Collaboration: Unlocking the Power of Teams, which details the Ziff Davis Enterprise 2008 Collaboration Survey. While the article is extremely interesting and well worth the read, some of the statistics from the survey are simply astounding.
"We discovered that about 80 percent of IT executives believe collaboration and workflow technologies deliver on their promise to boost productivity and decision-making, and half say they enable and even inspire strategies that were previously unattainable or unimaginable."
With findings like that, it's no wonder that:
"Organizations will increase their spending on collaboration software by 14.8 percent in 2008, according to the Ziff Davis Enterprise February 2008 IT Spending Survey. "
Additionaly, the graphic on Page 4 of the article shows that while Wikis are ranked as the 16th most used collaboration technology within Organizations, they are the 4th most used without IT Support. So eventhough 20% of the responding organizations use Wikis without the support of their IT department, they are still used more than other technologies such as Blogs (22nd) and Realtime Document Collaboration (21st). Furthermore, while Discussion Forums have been a mainstay on the (consumer) web for many years now, Wikis were tied with Discussion Forums as 16th most used.
If you are interested in what technologies are most used or percieved as being most valuable, this article is definitely worth a read.
