{"id":11474,"date":"2022-06-08T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=11474"},"modified":"2021-09-02T10:23:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T18:23:43","slug":"collaboration-software-dramatic-growth-since-early-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/collaboration-software-dramatic-growth-since-early-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaboration Software: Dramatic Growth Since Early 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A big beneficiary of COVID-19 has been remote collaboration software. More than 80 percent of workers now use some kind of software collaboration tool for their work, an increase of 44 percent compared to pre-COVID-19, according to Gartner estimates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spending on collaboration software tools jumped more than 30 percent during the pandemic, according to IDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wayne Kurtzman<\/a>, research director, IDC’s Social, Communities and Collaboration applications, said that<\/a> “the future of collaborative applications will see the introduction of more intelligence, new and more visual ways of connecting with each other, and measuring true value for customers. Fast-evolving features, intelligence, a need to work together from anywhere, and a still growing demand see the collaborative applications market growing to become a $50.7 billion industry by 2025.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christopher Trueman<\/a>, principal research analyst at Gartner, said that<\/a> “collaboration tools found renewed importance during COVID-19 for their role in ensuring the productivity of suddenly remote teams. As many organizations shift to a long-term hybrid workforce model, cloud-based, personal and team productivity technologies, along with collaboration tools, will form the core of a series of new work hubs that meet the requirements of various remote and hybrid workers.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In particular, the number of in-person meetings has dropped dramatically since the start of COVID-19. Gartner predicts that by 2024 less than one-quarter of enterprise-business meetings will be in-person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trueman said that “as IT leaders prepare for a mix of meeting modalities, it will be critical that they ensure equitable collaboration, tool and resource access for all meeting participants, regardless of location. Cloud-based meeting solutions and content service platforms can support this through offerings or integrations with technologies including virtual whiteboards, rich chat features, and recording and transcription capabilities.”<\/p>\n

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A big beneficiary of COVID-19 has been remote collaboration software. More than 80 percent of workers now use some kind of software collaboration tool for their work, an increase of 44 percent compared to pre-COVID-19, according to Gartner estimates. Spending…<\/span><\/p>\n

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