Craig Roth

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Craig Roth
Managing Vice President: Communication, Collaboration, and Content
4 years at Gartner
25 years IT industry

Craig Roth is a vice president and service director for Gartner Research, in Burton Group's Collaboration and Content Strategies service. Mr. Roth covers a wide range of knowledge and Web-related topics at the intersection of collaboration, content… Read Full Bio

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Taking the Pulse of SharePoint 2010: A Catalyst Attendee Survey

by Craig Roth  |  September 23, 2010  |  4 Comments

I’ve had three surveys on SharePoint cross my desk (well, e-mail inbox) in the past month.  Most of them share the same questions about what SharePoint is being used for and whether they are on 2010 yet.  I read them with interest to see if there are any wildly varying results or, barring that, to monitor for trends.

Now I get to add my own data into the mix.  Gartner was kind enough to administer an attendee survey at our Catalyst conference.  I used the opportunity to ask some of the standard SharePoint questions to validate how they applied to our audience, which tends to be large organizations, forward-looking but slightly conservative in deployment, and analytical in approach.  I also added some unique questions to the mix that I’ve wanted to know, such as:

  • The degree to which SharePoint overlaps with existing products by category
  • How many organizations have multiple enterprise (not multiple departmental) SharePoint instances
  • How many organizations still have SharePoint 2003 running, let alone 2010
  • What percentage of organizations are paying for SharePoint (rather than just using the free stuff)
  • Whether SharePoint 2010 forces quicker adoption of Office 2010 or vice-versa

I’ll be doing a webinar to show the results and how they jibe with what we’ve been hearing from clients in our ongoing conversations.  I hope you can join me.

Taking the Pulse of SharePoint 2010: A Catalyst Attendee Survey

12 October 2010

9:00 AM EDT and 12:00 PM EDT (it’s offered at two times for the convenience of attendees in different time zones)

Click here for more information or to register

Also, don’t miss these two upcoming webinars on SharePoint delivery and information protection:

Making Microsoft Sharepoint Deliver (29 Sep 2010)

The Role of SharePoint in Information Protection (30 Sep 2010)

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  • 1 Elka   September 23, 2010 at 5:37 pm

    Dear Craig,
    We have noticed some very positive trends towards SharePoint being integrated as a “business collaboration platform”. I look forward to joining your upcoming webinar revealing your survey results!

    Just as a heads-up, Mindsharp (a former learning partner of MS SharePoint) will be coming to Calgary, Alberta, to teach:
    *SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer (Oct 18-22 2010)
    *SharePoint Server 2010 Administrator (Nov 15-19 2010)

    New Era Technology (located downtown Calgary) will also give you a free iPad if you bundle both courses – and yes, the courses can be taken by 2 different people!

    Please visit http://www.neweratechnology for more info.

    Sincerely,
    Elka

  • 2 Craig Roth   September 24, 2010 at 9:42 am

    So two people take a course, and you give them one iPad to fight over? I can’t wait to see how that plays out ;-)

  • 3 Craig Roth   September 24, 2010 at 9:44 am

    One iPad given to every two people that take a class? Let the infighting begin … ;-)

  • 4 Armando Valdés C.   October 2, 2010 at 1:25 am

    Funny combination !. Apple products in Microsoft products courses.