The document discusses market trends in user productivity software, with a focus on collaborative content workspaces (CCW). Key trends include the consumerization of IT, the rise of smartphones and tablets, the growing "social enterprise", the rise of SaaS applications, and increasing demand for integration across content management, portals, search and social collaboration. The CCW market is valued at $12B+ annually, with ECM being the largest segment. Microsoft dominates the market with SharePoint. The document outlines opportunities for SAP to develop an enterprise-ready CCW solution by integrating social capabilities, ECM, BI and business processes.
7. Collaborative Content
Workspaces Market
"We continue to see buyer demand for greater integration of collaboration, content
management, enterprise portals, and search — whether for intranet, extranet, or
publicly facing applications"
- Al Hilwa,
Program Director at IDC
Collaborative Content Workspaces (CCW) Market
The CCW market is a newly defined competitive market that rolls up four functional markets: content management, team collaborative applications, search and discovery, and enterprise portals.
In 2010 total revenue summed up to almost $10B total.
Customers continue to demand these four functions in one package, with Microsoft SharePoint leading the trend.
In this forum, we will analyze the market trends, provide estimations, compare between competitive solutions and suggest ways by which SAP can win much more significant share in this promising market.