http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/svcg.pag/ITCF - Conferencing and Collaboration Research en-us Market Engineering Research Service This research service analyses the developing hosted unified communications and collaborations services market in Europe. The study covers key market challenges, drivers, restraints, trends and regional forecasts. It discusses hosted IP telephony market and the growing user base of unified communications and collaboration services bundles within that market. Additionally, it includes profiles of selected market participants. http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=M7C4-01-00-00-00 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:33:30 +0000 http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=M7C4-01-00-00-00 Market Engineering Research Service After experience a difficult year at 2009 caused by economic crisis, the Southern Cone market resumes the growth at 2010. http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=NA7F-01-00-00-00 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:27:30 +0000 http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=NA7F-01-00-00-00 Market Engineering Research Service UC applications are becoming easier to deploy and bringing a large specter of benefits to companies, allowing them to improve efficiency and productivity of their employees http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=NAA5-01-00-00-00 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:12:30 +0000 http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=NAA5-01-00-00-00 Market Engineering Research Service Despite not had been much affected by the 2009 economic crisis, the Brazilian market keeps the pace at 2010. The competitive landscape has the presence of many local vendors that are focused on small companies. Collaboration is evolving rapidly to integrate social network communications with business processes and enterprises. UC licenses will include more capabilities in the future. In general, the licensing model will also evolve to offer more granular solutions. Device consumerization is diversifying the mobile devices landscape, and its fast adoption is creating a positive impact on mobile UC applications. http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=NA47-01-00-00-00 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:58:33 +0000 http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=NA47-01-00-00-00 Market Engineering Research Service After a stellar 2009, the world audio conferencing bridge market http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=N933-01-00-00-00 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:10:32 +0000 http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=N933-01-00-00-00 Market Engineering Research Service This strategic analysis is part of Frost & Sullivan's continued coverage of the conferencing and collaboration marketplace. Within this analysis, Frost & Sullivan has identified industry challenges, key trends, market drivers and restraints, and competitive trends in the North American audio conferencing services market. Further, this study provides revenue minute, pricing and revenue forecasts. It also includes competitive analysis and estimated vendor market shares. This analysis provides market participants with a detailed look at the current and changing dynamics in the fast-evolving audio conferencing services marketplace. http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=NA42-01-00-00-00 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:39:53 +0000 http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=NA42-01-00-00-00 Market Engineering Research This market insight covers the social media and unified communication markets in South Africa and Kenya, by examining the current mobile broadband penetration and uptake of smartphones in both countries.The research service includes an analysis of key market trends, market dynamics, and the current market status in terms of social media solutions deployments . This research service also discusses the profiles of key vendors in both the countries. This study highlights key telecom indicators and determines the potential growth of the different unified communications solutions which incorporate social features. Strategic recommendations are also provided in the report The base year for the research service is 2010. http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=M6DF-01-00-00-00 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:11:31 +0000 http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=M6DF-01-00-00-00 Market Engineering Research This research service was conducted on the social media and unified communication markets in South Africa and Kenya in order to analyse the uptake of unified communications, which incorporate consumer-web applications by enterprises. The objectives of the research service are to analyse market dynamics, specifically the challenges and restraints in these markets, to outline key market trends for unified communications in the social media space, and provide key vendor profiles. In addition, strategic recommendations have been provided. http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=M6DF-01-01-00-00 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:11:31 +0000 http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=M6DF-01-01-00-00 Market Engineering Research Service This study covers conferencing endpoints that sit on a conference table or used as a personal conferencing device, which provide high-end audio functionality such as echo cancellation and full duplexing. With increased penetration of Unified Communications and use of audio services such as Skype, the market for universal service bus (USB) audio conferencing endpoints is showing high growth. Because of the importance of the USB market, Frost & Sullivan has segmented this study into USB appliances for connection to a computer with softphone capabilities and non-USB, IP/TDM appliances that function directly with a voice network. http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=N9B0-01-00-00-00 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:51:30 +0000 http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=N9B0-01-00-00-00 Customer Research The study investigates European business users' preferences regarding information and communications products and vendors, and service and service providers. In particular, the study measures the awareness and usage of information and communications technology (ICT) products and services, identifies the frequency and level of ICT tool usage, and keys out the leading ICT companies. The study was conducted in March and April, 2011 by means of a Web-based survey. In effect, 315 European business users of ICT solutions were surveyed. http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=M713-01-00-00-00 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:48:30 +0000 http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=M713-01-00-00-00 Market Engineering Research Service This study provides the state of Asia Pacific web conferencing market,which includes software and services segments. It examined the key market findings, drivers and restraints for growth, pricing trends, vertical and horizontal outlook and geographical trends. Following from these, market growth for regional and market segments are forecasted. In addition, an in-depth analysis of the competitive situation including vendors' market shares is performed, along with detailed competitive assessment in the industry. The base year is 2010 with forecasts running through 2017. Detailed analysis of six sub-regions is included. http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=P5A5-01-00-00-00 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:37:31 +0000 http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=P5A5-01-00-00-00 Market Engineering Research Service This strategic analysis is part of Frost & Sullivan's continued coverage of the enterprise telephony marketplace. Through extensive primary and secondary research, this analysis provides telephony equipment vendors, service providers, value-added resellers (VARs), systems integrators (SIs) and other market participants with a detailed analysis of the telephony customer premises equipment (CPE) services marketplace. Within this analysis, Frost & Sullivan has presented the market drivers, restraints, competitive landscape, segmentation, demand, market shares, and revenue of the rapidly evolving telephony CPE market. http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=NA61-01-00-00-00 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:56:31 +0000 http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=NA61-01-00-00-00 Market Engineering Research Service The installed audio conferencing endpoints market experienced high revenue growth in 2010 as companies are beginning to increase their capital expenditures after over 2 years of holding on to cash reserves. For vendors in the market, the challenge to keep growing is closely tied to their ability to integrate their systems with high-end videoconferencing equipment to build out multi-functional conference rooms and auditoriums. This will be particularly difficult for those vendors that do not have their own videoconferencing equipment portfolio because price pressure in both the video and audio equipment markets restricts potential revenue without having the larger spend per sale that a video/audio combination would bring. http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=N9AC-01-00-00-00 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:33:30 +0000 http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=N9AC-01-00-00-00 Market Engineering Research Service Videoconferencing is undergoing a shift from being a nice-to-have to becoming a must-have technology . There has been an increased necessity for conferencing and collaboration tools that can deliver productivity enhancements, cost cutting, and communication with geographically dispersed workers. The videoconferencing services market is evolving at a fast pace to meet the market needs. With extensive primary and secondary research, this analysis provides CSPs and their partners with a detailed look at the current and changing dynamics in the fast evolving videoconferencing services marketplace. The study discusses market drivers, restraints and trends. It also provides revenue forecasts, vendor profiles and market share analysis. http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=N9A5-01-00-00-00 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:27:35 +0000 http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=N9A5-01-00-00-00 Market Engineering Research This analysis identifies challenges faced by IT and line-of-business (LOB) managers in the increasingly virtual and geographically distributed organization. It recommends a systematic approach to implementing technologies and processes that support the virtual workforce and enable it to effectively communicate and collaborate with the rest of the organization. The insight provided in this study can help vendors and service providers apply a more consultative approach in selling IT and communications solutions to distributed organizations. It can also help businesses more efficiently address the challenges related to the virtual workplace. http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=9847-00-3B-00-00 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:44:31 +0000 http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=9847-00-3B-00-00 Market Engineering Research There has been widespread speculation and varying expectations regarding the future potential of desktop videoconferencing. This research service discusses the major industry and market dynamics and technology trends that are shaping the desktop videoconferencing market. The analysis herein will provide valuable insights as to how desktop videoconferencing is being adopted by businesses and enterprises of all sizes. These trends reveal a significant market opportunity for vendors and other providers that are building the ecosystem to make desktop videoconferencing a reality for mainstream professional users. http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=9847-00-3A-00-00 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:35:30 +0000 http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=9847-00-3A-00-00 Market Engineering Research Service This research service provides a detailed view of the global market for visual collaboration managed services, examining the main drivers and restraints for growth. It also describes the key market trends, dynamics and influential market participants, as well as gives an overview of the principle market metrics together with a forecast of main revenue streams up to 2017. The study also describes main market segments that are utilizing the visual collaboration managed services. The base year is 2011. http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=M79A-01-00-00-00 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:36:09 +0000 http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=M79A-01-00-00-00 Market Engineering Research The healthcare industry is the perfect target for unified communications and collaborative technologies (UC). Not only does UC improve urgent care, but it also allows healthcare providers to be successful in implementing more effective electronic records systems and improving customer satisfaction. Clearly, there is great potential for UC vendors in the healthcare industry. The following analysis will allow telephony providers and UC solution vendors to gain insight into the main drivers and challenges for the adoption of unified communications solutions in the healthcare sector, understand demand patterns, evaluate global expansion, analyze evolving competitive trends, and determine major strategic considerations to take into account. http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=9847-00-39-00-00 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:35:31 +0000 http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=9847-00-39-00-00