From InfoWorld: Among enterprise apps, Microsoft Office 365 is tops, Slack's growing fast, and platforms like Salesforce and Box are here to stay. But Slack's explosive continued growth isn't guaranteed.
These conclusions and more come from enterprise identity management firm Okta, courtesy of the third edition of its Businesses @ Work report, which aggregates in-house business app usage statistics from its customers.
The sheer dominance of Office 365 as a work app showed up in a remarkable number of ways across Okta's report. It remains the most popular app by a wide margin, and it started pulling fast into the lead not long after Okta started gathering stats for this report series back in early 2014.
By August 2015, Office had beat out Salesforce.com as the most popular app; by the end of last year, Office 365 was beating Salesforce by something like a factor of 1.3 to 1. (Okta's report does not provide absolute numbers, only relative ones.)
Office 365 bests all comers in form factor as well, as Okta reports it's the top app accessed on a mobile device. In this case it outstrips Salesforce, again in the no. 2 position, by nearly a factor of two, with Box in third place right behind. This partially reflects Microsoft Office's status as standard issue for enterprises, but it's also a sign that Office 365 has come a long way since its problematic beginnings -- so much so that it's actually productive to work with it.
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