Trends in Collaboration Technology and Open Source Software 2011-2012
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The report details the findings from a survey conducted during the 2nd collaboration retreat in 2011, focusing on open source software (OSS) and collaboration technology among IT decision-makers. Key insights reveal that organizations prioritize cost and flexibility in collaboration infrastructure, plan to increase in-house IT capabilities, and view collaboration applications as essential as traditional business applications. The document underscores the growing demand for OSS and mobile collaboration solutions as businesses seek to enhance efficiency while managing costs.
![Participants
Finance
Executives
CXOs IT Strategy
IT
Managers
Solution Consultants
Partners
The participants in this survey were:
CXOs
IT Strategy Consultants
IT Managers
Finance Executives
Solution Partners
Sample Size – Company Size
Companies of all sizes were covered
Large
17%
Large [>1501 Employees]
Mid
Market
MidMarket [501-1500 Employees]
SMEs 18%
65%
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![3.4) Huge scope for Mobile Collaboration Applications
7%
4%
Very large[>50%]
33%
Large[<25-50%]
Small[<10%-25%]
56%
Very Small[<5%]
11% of organizations have more than 25% mobile workforce accessing
collaboration applications over mobile devices. As organizations are
planning to expand mobile access for their next initiative on collaboration
infrastructure, mobile collaboration applications have a huge scope in
Q: What's the size of mobile workforce that accesses collaboration applications
over a mobile device in your enterprise (as a percentage of the total number
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Trends in Collaboration Technology and Open Source Software 2011-2012
- 1. Trends in Collaboration Technology & collaboration Open Source retreat 2011 Software, 2011-2012. This report on Open Source Software (OSS) and Collaboration Technology Infrastructure is based on the survey of about 100 participants during the 2nd Collaboration Retreat 2011 for select CXOs and Delegates organized by Mithi in September 2011. The Collaboration Retreat 2011 offered a first-of-its-kind interactive platform for sharing CIO and CFO perspectives on Collaboration Infrastructure Strategies. About 20 CXOs and over 80 delegates from diverse organisations participated in the conference. The synopsis, photos, videos etc. can be seen on at http://www.mithi.com/cr2011-highlights.html This report captures the opinions of IT decision makers in organizations across industries regarding the feasibility and future of OSS and Collaboration IT Infrastructure.
- 2. Participants Finance Executives CXOs IT Strategy IT Managers Solution Consultants Partners The participants in this survey were: CXOs IT Strategy Consultants IT Managers Finance Executives Solution Partners Sample Size – Company Size Companies of all sizes were covered Large 17% Large [>1501 Employees] Mid Market MidMarket [501-1500 Employees] SMEs 18% 65% SME [<500 Employees]
- 3. Sample Size – Industry Wise Healthcare Telecom 4% Government 4% 4% BFSI Education 38% 7% 11% Services 14% 18% Manufacturing IT Respondents belonged to diverse industry verticals viz., BFSI, Manufacturing, IT, Telecom, Healthcare, Government, Education, etc.
- 4. 1 Insight Cost and Flexibility are the driving factors in the choice of Collaboration Infrastructure. 1.1) Cost and Flexibility often determine the cost of IT Infrastructure Collaboration Infrastructure is a critical component of the IT landscape of an organization and has a wide-ranging impact on business. With growing competition and pressures on margins, it has become increasingly essential for organizations to control costs as far as possible. At the same time, CIOs are looking at bringing in flexibility in the IT infrastruc- ture by introducing open standards based systems into the network which can connect to the other business applications easily while delivering value to the enterprise. 60%- 40%- 20%- 0%- 67% 30% 41% 15% Cost Performance Flexibility Choice Q: What do you feel are the advantages of Open Source Software?
- 5. 1.2) Organizations plan to increase inhouse IT capabilities 48% of the organizations are planning to increase inhouse IT capabilities. With growing complexity of businesses, IT has become one of most critical functions in organisation and they are planning to grow in-house IT team for meeting the growing complexities of their respective business processes. 30% Grow It 48% Reduce It Keep It same No particular preference 19% 4% Q: What are the immediate plans for your in-house IT team? 1.3) Hosted Application Service, the most preferred form of outsourcing 59% prefer Hosted Application Service which refers to internet based applications or applications that resides on server. HAS: Hosted Application Service CFM: Complete Facilities Management RDCM: Remote Data Center Management RAM: Remote Application Management 60%- 50%- 40%- 30%- 20%- 10%- 59% 22% 15% 22% 0%- HAS CFM RDCM RAM Q: What would be your preferred form of outsourcing?
- 6. 2 Insight Enterprises consider Collaboration applications to be as critical as the traditional Business applications. 2.1) Collaboration applications are equally important as traditional business applications 8% 13% More Important 17% As Important Less Important 63% Not So Important More than 75% of organizations rates collaboration applications more or equally important as other traditional business applications. Increasing diversification in other geographical areas and industries has resulted in increasing demand of collaborative applications. Q: How important is collaboration and collaboration technology for your enterprise in comparison to other business applications in your enterprise?
- 7. 2.2) Organizations prefer to outsource collaboration infrastructure 11% 11% Completely 37% Substantially Partially 41% Not at all 63% of organizations want to outsource collaboration infrastructure completely or substantially or partially. Q: Are you planning to outsource your collaboration infrastructure needs?
- 8. 3 Insight Organizations are looking at a combination of Open Source, Cloud and low cost Mobile Devices as a way to increase availability and reduce costs for their Collaboration Infrastructure. 3.1) Immediate plans to increase Mobile Collaboration 50%- 40%- 30%- 20%- 10%- 0%- 30% 30% 44% 15% Expand to Reduce Expand Improve Cover more cost Mobile Reliability emloyees access Priority of organizations in regards of collaboration infrastructure is to expand mobile access. 44% of the organizations have chosen to expand mobile access to the collaborative applications to cover more employees. Q: What would be your next initiative on collaboration infrastructure?
- 9. 3.2) Android takes over BlackBerry and iPhone on collaboration needs 60%- 50%- 40%- 30%- 20%- 10%- 26% 15% 70% 15% 0%- Blackberry iPhone Android Others Q: Which platform do you see solving the bulk mobile collaboration needs of your business in the next 5 years? 3.3) OSS has huge scope going forward 15% 22% 75%Linux-25% Window 50-50 Mix 30% 25%Linux-75%Window 33% 0% Linux-100%Window Nearly 22% of organizations use OSS exhaustively for tapping their growing IT requirements. It presents a huge opportunity as proprietary licensed or patented software can take a back seat given that OSS assures information security. Q: What kind of a mix do you have in your IT environment (a mix of Windows, Linux/Unix etc.)?
- 10. 3.4) Huge scope for Mobile Collaboration Applications 7% 4% Very large[>50%] 33% Large[<25-50%] Small[<10%-25%] 56% Very Small[<5%] 11% of organizations have more than 25% mobile workforce accessing collaboration applications over mobile devices. As organizations are planning to expand mobile access for their next initiative on collaboration infrastructure, mobile collaboration applications have a huge scope in Q: What's the size of mobile workforce that accesses collaboration applications over a mobile device in your enterprise (as a percentage of the total number users for the collaboration applications)?
- 11. Wrapping Up With increasing pressure to cut costs, organizations are actively considering Open Source based Collaboration Technologies. Organizations will give preference to such collaboration technologies that offer great flexibility in dynamically changing environments while bringing down costs at the same time. Advances in Cloud based Services will see it becoming more preferred outsourcing option across enterprises. Organizations are looking to expand over-the-air access to the collaboration applications beyond Blackberry and iPhone devices.
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