Which industry hold the lion’s share of SharePoint usage and why?

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SharePoint, which was once written off as a failed CMS incapable of gaining a significant user base has now become one of the most widely used ECM and Collaboration product with more than 250,000 organizations including (85% of fortune 500 companies) and over 190 million people using SharePoint/SharePoint Online. One of its main success factors is the ever-increasing rise of digitization and globalization, organizations want their content to be accessible from everywhere by anyone weather it’s an office worker or an engineer in the field. They want to ensure that employees work in a productive environment and don’t face any obstacles in collaboration and communication.

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Is there any worthy alternative to SharePoint?

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Microsoft SharePoint is by far the most widely used content management and team collaboration solution in the market with a user base of over 200 million users which also incorporates over 80% of fortune 500 companies. SharePoint started as a Content management system in 2003 but over time it has evolved to satisfy the ever-growing needs of enterprise users and has now become a one-stop mega shop to serve all the needs of a digital and modern workplace. Whether its document management or content management, Intranet portals, process automation, workplace digitization, team collaboration and even enterprise social networking SharePoint has got it all and some more and the best part is that it can be extended to build solutions for business problems making it an ideal platform. However, needless to say, Microsoft is not alone and there are plenty of solutions claiming to provide a cost-effective SharePoint alternative but most of them only compete on a specific feature segment or a niche functionality. In this article, we are going to look at some of the true SharePoint alternatives that exist in the market today and in which scenarios can they be considered an alternative to SharePoint.

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