| Market Statistic | Source |
| Intranet ROI (return on investment) well beyond 1,000 percent. |
IDC technology forecaster |
| Companies recover the cost of their intranets within six to 12 weeks, the highest return of any technology expense. |
IDC technology forecaster |
| It is estimated that more than 90 percent of U.S. enterprises - including quite small ones - now have an intranet up and in some stage of evolution. |
John Gerstner |
| Corporations spent nearly $64 billion on intranet hardware, software and related services worldwide in 2000. This number is expected to grow to $200 billion per year by the end of the decade. |
Gartner Group, Forrester and other technology forecasters |
| In a 2001 survey of small and medium sized enterprises and government and non-profits, almost three-quarters of those polled said having an intranet allows their staff to work more efficiently and more productively. |
Modalis, a technology information provider |
| Seventy-two percent said an intranet improves collaboration and knowledge sharing. The other major perceived benefits of having an intranet were: reducing stress and confusion, improving the quality of work, enabling better decision-making, improving communications with suppliers and customers, enabling speedier production, and reducing costs. |
Modalis, a technology information provider |
| More than 75 percent of all web servers currently being installed are for intranet purposes, and the market for intranet applications, platforms and related technology is substantially outstripping that for the public Internet and indeed all other IT areas. |
Gartner Group, Forrester and other technology forecasters |
| Migrating human-resources information to the Web can save companies up to 40%. |
E-PeopleServe, a joint venture of British Telecom and consulting firm Accenture |
| Eliminating paper for travel and expense reporting, can save as much as 93% in administration and processing costs. |
Accenture, consulting firm |
| Real power of intranets lies, not in simply giving employees 24x7 access to key information inside an organization, but in fundamentally changing the way employees work "...turning doers into thinkers." |
Research Foundation of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) |
| "E' was big. 'C' is bigger." Suddenly every software vendor is jockeying to become a collaborative commerce play. |
Gartner Group technology forecaster |
| More than 85 percent of businesses will have portals in development by 2003. |
Meta Group technology forecaster |
| "Collaborative commerce is much bigger than buying and selling.... The Internet will be even more momentous as a medium for business-to-business collaboration." |
Chuck Phillips and Mary Meeker, analysts at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter |
Market Statistics - Intranet Usage
The following list highlights some Intranet market statistics.