The new Radicati report shows UC as being a very healthy market …
… The latest study by The Radicati Group, “On-Premises Corporate Unified Communications Market, 2006-2010” provides market size, four-year forecasts, technology trends, and competitive information for the On-Premises Corporate Unified Communications market. The report also includes installed base and market share data broken out by Region and Business Size.
The growth of the UC market continues to be driven by the need of employees to more efficiently communicate with each other, as well as the desire to manage a variety of communication devices and applications in a cohesive manner. The potential for this market is huge – with 18 million deployed on-premises UC mailboxes in 2006, this market is poised to grow to over 47 million deployed mailboxes by 2010.
Geographically, on-premises UC solutions today have the highest number of deployments in North America (47%), followed by Europe (37%). UC vendors are expected to collect about $559 million in worldwide revenues in 2006, growing to over $1.2 billion in 2010…
Source : Radicati.com
