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The enterprise communications market is transitioning to a blended ecosystem of services and software-centric platforms deployed on the customer premises. The range of components that can be part of the UC stack is also expanding. Partners are vital to expand vendor reach and to foster close customer relationships needed for higher-value UC sales....

The enterprise communications market is transitioning to a blended ecosystem of services and software-centric platforms deployed on the customer premises. The range of components that can be part of the UC stack is also expanding. Channel partners must possess broader skill sets than their telephony-centric predecessors. They must recognize that th...

Voice messaging has long been an important component of business communications. However, reliance on voice messaging is declining among business users. This market insight highlights both the opportunities and challenges that exist in the voice messaging market, as well as identifies examples of unified communications suppliers addressing these ch...

The Canadian contact centre and office (CC&O) professional headsets market is one of the 10 most attractive markets in the world, in terms of total market size with estimated revenue of more than $53 million in 2012. This market insight provides executives with a detailed analysis of the Canadian professional headset market, and includes an overvie...

The way in which people use technology is fundamentally changing and the impact is being felt by providers of enterprise communications solutions. This strategic analysis defines the effect of the consumerization of IT (CoIT) and software-driven unified communications platforms based on the buying habits of businesses. Furthermore, this insight ide...

Migration from traditional TDM PBXs to IP-based unified communications platforms represents a significant shift in the communications network architecture. As organizations embrace this next generation of communications platforms, however, a reassessment of existing disaster recovery and business continuity (DR/BC) plans must also be undertaken. Co...

Software-defined networking (SDN) represents a significant shift in network architecture and administrator, and brings the hope of a network truly friendly to bandwidth-intensive unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) applications. This market insight will discuss the benefits, challenges, and market opportunities for extending SDN technol...

Businesses increasingly deploy hosted Internet protocol (IP) telephony and unified communications and collaboration (UCC) services in order to gain flexibility, reduce costs and risks associated with communications investments, and more effectively support remote branch office and mobile workers. This article provides a guide to a structured and s...

Frost & Sullivan contends that the chances for successful social software deployment are multipled when it is integrated with existing workflows, processes and business applications that employees already use on a routine basis. This research article explores several case studies in which such integration, and the associated benefits, significantly...