The SharePoint and Office 365 Industry Survey
Sharegate recently partnered with HyperFish and Nintex to survey 449 IT professionals and to look back at how they used SharePoint and Office 365 in 2017. We compiled the results and compared them with our 2016 survey. Then we asked industry experts for their thoughts on the findings. We now share our findings with the community so it can be used to educate organizations on trends and best practices.
The move to the cloud is not always as easy as it sounds. Microsoft has released a content migration tool to help customers leave SharePoint 2010 and 2013, but it just isn’t enough. Here at Sharegate, we still see a large number of customers leveraging our tools to migrate while keeping their existing site structure and objects.
Security is much more robust in the cloud – we can no longer argue against this. As our end users demand more from what we offer, the move is inevitable for most. Also, Microsoft’s Office 365 usage numbers seem to double each year, with SharePoint now leading in not one, but two Magic Quadrants.
This makes sense to me. Administrators don't have the time to do everything by themselves. They are always looking for new IT solutions to manage user permissions. Third-party tools can help them ensure that everyone has the right access.
Unfortunately, 50% of organizations still enforce their governance manually which is incredibly time consuming! I hope the new SharePoint Administration Center will help them better define and enforce their governance policies.
Very few (12%) had integrations with other systems to keep Active Directory up-to-date. This is usually because the system of record for profile information such as Job Title, Department and Manager is not Active Directory. For this reason, the most common systems to integrate with Active Directory are Human Resource Management Systems.
