Parabola Software has completed a research project covering how housing providers are using Microsoft SharePoint.
The research found that 60 per cent of the housing providers surveyed were already using SharePoint, with it being most commonly used as an intranet and for supporting knowledge bases, staff directories, internal collaboration and automated forms and workflows.
The survey found that the most significant benefits of SharePoint were that it made housing providers’ intranets easier to navigate, gave better access to important information and made it easier to share files.
The Parabola research found that the two most common reasons holding back housing providers in their use of SharePoint were a lack of in-house skills and low user adoption, which the software company attributed to the poor implementations by third parties and insufficient buy-in from senior management.
