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Vendor Landscape Plus: Collaboration Platforms
Stop! Collaborate and listen…to the changing market space and the needs of end users.
More DetailsWhat is a Value Score?
The Value Score indexes each vendor’s product offering and business strength relative to their price point. It does not indicate vendor ranking.
Vendors that score high offer more bang for the buck (e.g. features, usability, stability, etc.) than the average vendor, while the inverse is true for those that score lower.
Price-conscious enterprises may wish to give the Value Score more consideration than those who are more focused on specific vendor/product attributes.
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What is a shortlist?
A shortlist is a personalized list of vendors based on the criteria above.
Your shortlist offers more information about vendor's strengths, weaknesses, price-points, etc, and ranks them according to your needs.
Your Challenge
- The adoption of collaboration platforms is rapidly accelerating. Not all platforms are created equal, and choosing the right platform can be a daunting task in a market with many emerging new features and shifting delivery options.
- Choosing the wrong platform is a costly mistake for any organization, not just in terms of the time and money wasted on the platform, but also from the failure of the platform to meet the business' needs.
- This solution set will help you understand and identify collaboration opportunities that exist within your organization, identify leading vendors and compare capabilities, and select the right solution to implement.
Our Advice
Critical Insight- The rise of social collaboration features has fundamentally altered the collaboration landscape – vendors now offer social media equivalents for enterprise use, alongside more traditional collaboration functionality like content management. The rise of these features is a relatively recent phenomenon. Info-Tech recommends that organizations take advantage of this new functionality to enhance internal collaboration.
- SharePoint 2010 is the dominant collaboration platform holding 78% of the market share. For many organizations, SharePoint is a given and selection is about complementing rather than competing. For those organizations that disqualify SharePoint, there are a range of other robust solutions.
- Selecting a collaboration platform involves defining the organization’s functional requirements, creating a shortlist based on these requirements, formally evaluating vendor offerings, and choosing the platform that is best tailored to the organization’s unique circumstances.
- Understand the features and business benefits of using a collaboration platform, and determine functional requirements based on organizational needs to focus product evaluation on the right things.
- Plan and select a collaboration solution that brings distributed people and information together to get more done in less time.
- Use Info-Tech's Vendor Landscape to compare the major collaboration platforms available and prepare a vendor shortlist, saving time and money in the selection process.
Get to Action
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Narrow down a list of collaboration vendors
Create a strong list of vendor candidates.
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Compare leading vendors and develop a shortlist
Narrow the leading vendors down to the most appropriate few.
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Contrast and evaluate a shortlist of vendors
Select the right collaboration platform vendor.
Related Solution Sets
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Enable employees and teams to make their own connections to get the job done.
Implement a Collaboration Platform
Implementation doesn't end with platform deployment: build ongoing collaboration solutions.
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Enable employees and teams to make their own connections to get the job done.
Stop! Collaborate and listen…to the changing market space and the needs of end users.
Implementation doesn't end with platform deployment: build ongoing collaboration solutions.
