According to a recent IDG survey, 62% of CIOs indicated that SharePoint has already become a critical component of their technology portfolio.  Beyond this, most organizations are going to take SharePoint to the next level in 2010, by expanding in areas such as business process management (63%), records management (40%), web content management (39%), and application development (35%).

However, because SharePoint has been managed as, one of our client executives put it “a wild wild west”, there has been Insufficient workflow processes (44%), disorganized content (40%) and Lack of an over-arching site creation strategy (38%).  Beyond this, search multiple SharePoint sites and duplication of content (document or record/lists) have created numerous usability issues.

Free SharePoint workflow prototypes from your business processes.

SPS Workflow’s take on this is the same as when we published the Wild Wild West article almost two years ago.  Organizations need defined business processes and resulting SharePoint hosted workflows to manage content on SharePoint.  However, far too many organizations are waiting for IT to develop workflows using cumbersome methods and tools such as Visual Studio, rather than focusing on both the streamlining, design, development and deployment of business processes using tools such as the SharePoint Workflow Designer used by our SharePoint Workflow Factory, or using the factory directly and focusing more on process definition.

The cost of either approach is considerably lower than internal programmatic approaches, while business process agility is greater and time-to-deployment  is faster.  If you’re interested in the data supporting these assertions, attend on of our Rapid Deployment of SharePoint Workflow Webinars to find out more.