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April 27, 2006 The Information Workplace: Who Wants It And When? by Erica Driver, Connie Moore with Colin Teubner, Lucy Fossner	Average: 7  (1 rating)

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Executive Summary

Although many vendors aspire to the Information Workplace (IW) platforms market, participants in Forrester's IW survey clearly expect the next-generation content/collaboration/portal/office productivity platform to come from today's leading collaboration platform vendors: Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle. Respondents to our September 2005 IW survey were divided on whether IT or business (or both) would drive adoption, but they agreed on surprisingly short adoption time frames — more than half said that they would implement IW platforms within one to five years. Early interest in IWs is coming from industries in which traditional knowledge workers make up a large portion of the workforce; however, a majority of respondents think that the IW will also support workers outside of traditional office jobs.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Budding Interest: High-Tech, Financial, And Professional Services
• Buyers Expect The Usual Suspects To Deliver IW Platforms
• Survey Participants Are Highly Optimistic About Adoption Time Frame
• Business And IT Must Work Together To Drive IW Adoption

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