Bitrix Announces the Ten Most Popular Intranet Collaboration Features for Improved Internal Efficiency

Bitrix Announces the Ten Most Popular Intranet Collaboration Features for Improved Internal Efficiency

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, January 24, 2011/PRNewswire/ --

    - Survey Reveals: Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Need Simple Tools
With Quick and Easy Adoption

    Bitrix, Inc. (http://www.bitrixsoft.com?r1=prnw&r2ways), a
technology trendsetter in business communications solutions, introduces a
survey of the top-10 most popular intranet collaboration benefits that allow
organizations to improve internal efficiency and raise workforce
productivity.

    Based on analysis of 1.000+ real-life installations of Bitrix
Intranet (http://www.bitrixsoft.com/products/intranet/?r1=prnw&r2ways)
among small and medium-sized businesses and many years of implementing
social-enabled intranet solutions, Bitrix has shortlisted the most popular
collaboration features.

   
      Rank   Intranet collaboration feature

        1    Employee availability and presence tracking
        2    Instant messaging and video conferencing
        3    Meetings / conference room management
        4    Virtual workgroups
        5    Shared documents
        6    Workflow management
        7    Routine processes automation
        8    Information and expert discovery
        9    Idea management and social networking
       10    Task management

    The top ten list reflects the most-used intranet collaboration
features (
http://www.bitrixsoft.com/products/intranet/features/?r1=prnw&r2ways) and
correspond to the most popular adoption patterns. Intriguingly, the priority
of listings doesn't match the wide-spread notion of the customer demand among
SMBs. Indeed, task management, shared documents and content search are on the
list but concede position to the seemingly less important features like
presence tracking, instant messaging and meetings management. This is due to
the fact that SMBs normally start the intranet implementation not with the
most 'famous' features but rather those which are easy to adopt.

    The survey confirms that SMBs are mainly interested in simple
collaboration tools with the shortest adoption period. The organizations
prefer step-by-step intranet adoption that starts from the most commonly used
features and ends with heavy-weight functionality. In fact, this process may
stretch over months depending on the organization's readiness, internal
governance and c-level support.

    Considering the growing popularity of the intranet technology,
Bitrix predicts that in the next year this list may undergo a major shift.
Many organizations will be one step ahead in the intranet adoption and
proceed with implementing more comprehensive collaboration features like
business process automation, records management, social CRM and e-Learning.
At the same time, we believe the market will be notable for greater awareness
of the benefits of intranets, as vendors provide better guidance to speed up
the technology adoption.

    Learn more about the ten most popular intranet collaboration
features in a dedicated white paper (
http://www.bitrixsoft.com/support/doc/white_papers.php?r1=prnw&r2ways).

    About Bitrix, Inc.

    Bitrix is a privately-owned company developing an advanced
business communications platform to bridge SMBs with their customers
(Internet), partners (Extranet) and employees (Intranet). Founded in 1998 and
headquartered in Alexandria, VA, Bitrix now incorporates 90+ staff, 40,000+
customers and 5,000+ partners worldwide. The customer list includes Hyundai,
Volkswagen, Panasonic, Gazprom, Xerox, PricewaterhouseCoopers, DPD, VTB,
Samsung and Cosmopolitan. Localized into 13 languages, the company's products
are distinguished for their pioneering technology, unique security features,
extreme performance capacity and unmatched ease-of-use.

Source: Bitrix, Inc.

Denis Zenkin - Marketing Director - Bitrix, Inc. - +1-703-740-8301 - denis.zenkin@bitrixsoft.com