Unified Communication and Collaboration: Technologies and Global Markets

Report Code: IFT125A

Publish Date: Jan 2016

Publisher: BCC Publishing

Category: Information Technology

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Report Highlights

The global market for unified communication and collaboration (UC&C) solutions totaled $22.6 billion and $26.5 billion in 2014 and 2015 respectively. The market should reach nearly $62 billion in 2020, demonstrating a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.5% from 2015 to 2020.

Report Includes

  • An overview of the global markets and related technologies for unified communication and collaboration.
  • Analyses of global market trends, with data from 2014, 2015, and projections of compound annual growth rates (CAGRs) through 2020.
  • A look at market sizes, revenue forecasts, value chain analysis, market & product trends, and the competitive landscape.
  • Breakdowns of the market and analyses presented by type, by technology, and by geography.
  • Discussion covering current and future trends and analysis on a basis of various competitive technologies.
  • Evaluation of the market's dynamics, specifically growth drivers, restraints, and opportunities.
  • Profiles of major players in the industry.

SCOPE OF REPORT

This report analyzes unified communication and collaboration technologies and their markets. To understand how the UC&C market will grow and the trends impacting its adoption, this report will analyze the technologies and markets that are evolving.

An overview of the UC&C industry precedes later chapters that review the main UC&C categories, discuss top provider market share, new technologies, and the regional markets for UC&C. Five–year forecasts follow, segmented by UC&C categories, as well as new deployment trends that will shape future markets.

Succeeding chapters discuss new developments in technologies, and their advantages to the UC&C industry. Regulatory and security issues will also be discussed as they affect UC&C adoption in the high-risk information industries of healthcare, finance and government.

The appendix contains an overview of recent patent grants.

The data provided for revenues is based on the calendar year beginning January 1st and ending December 31st of that year. For companies that report their financial results for different reporting periods, BCC Research has analyzed the data using a calendar year time frame as opposed to region-specific fiscal year. This is to maintain a common base period of data reporting and facilitate our understanding and comparison of revenues and market size estimation.

The revenues reported for each of the market players include revenue from UC&C solutions (on premise–based or hosted) including all hardware, software and services directly linked to the implementation of the solution as well as the recurring revenues from service agreements and maintenance support. It does not include professional services provided to evaluate client systems or costs related to consultation services for UC&C provisioning or training of personnel.

ANALYST’S CREDENTIALS

Nandita Bhotika is a freelance market research professional with a strong market research background. She has worked as a senior analyst in the information technology group for Frost & Sullivan, India and the U.S. She also developed data-driven market research for its global IT research markets. She has also worked on data analysis projects for companies such as Samsung.

Her strength is in analyzing new markets and technology trends especially in information technology and has worked as a market consultant to service providers, especially in the Internet service provider segment. She also has deep knowledge of the composite industry and its application in the wind energy market.

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Title/Chapter NamePagesMember Price
Full Report: Unified Communication and Collaboration: Technologies and Global Markets209Free
Chapter- 1: Introduction3Free
Chapter- 2: SUMMARY3Free
Chapter- 3: OVERVIEW9Free
Chapter- 4: UC&C MARKETS 7Free
Chapter- 5: UC&C VOICE TELEPHONY 13Free
Chapter- 6: UC&C CONFERENCING 37Free
Chapter- 7: UC COLLABORATIVE APPLICATIONS14Free
Chapter- 8: CONTACT CENTER 10Free
Chapter- 9: REGIONAL UC&C MARKETS 21Free
Chapter- 10: APPLICATION OF UC&C BY ENTERPRISE SIZE5Free
Chapter- 11: UC&C BY INDUSTRY SECTORS15Free
Chapter- 12: MARKET FOR UC&C BY TYPE OF DEPLOYMENT: ON-PREMISE OR CLOUD/HOSTED7Free
Chapter- 13: MARKET ANALYSIS FOR HOSTED/CLOUD-BASED UCAAS SOLUTIONS 21Free
Chapter- 14: EMERGING TECHNOLOGY TRENDS IN UC&C9Free
Chapter- 15: INDUSTRY STRUCTURE AND COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS19Free
Chapter- 16: C. CRAMER & CO. GMBH15Free
Chapter- 17: APPENDIX1Free

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Report Includes

    Total Number of Tables in this Report: 66

  • Summary Table: GLOBAL UC&C MARKET BY DEPLOYMENT TYPE, THROUGH 2020
  • Table 1: GLOBAL UC&C MARKET BY SOLUTION SEGMENT, THROUGH 2020
  • Table 2: GLOBAL UC&C MARKET BY BUSINESS SIZE, 2014
  • Table 3: GLOBAL UC&C MARKET BY REGION AND SOLUTION SEGMENT, 2014
  • Table 4: GLOBAL UC&C MARKET BY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SEGMENT, THROUGH 2020
  • Table 5: GLOBAL TDM AND IP PBX SYSTEM SHIPMENTS MARKET SHARE BY REGION, 2014 AND 2015
  • Table 6: GLOBAL TDM AND IP PBX UC&C MARKET BY VOICE TELEPHONY, THROUGH 2020
  • Table 7: GLOBAL UC&C VOICE TELEPHONY MARKET BY TOP VENDORS, 2014
  • Table 8: GLOBAL UC&C VOICE TELEPHONY MARKET BY REGION, 2014
  • Table 9: GLOBAL UC&C VOICE TELEPHONY SOLUTIONS MARKET SHARE BY DEPLOYMENT TYPE, THROUGH 2020
  • Table 10: GLOBAL HOSTED/CLOUD UC&C VOICE TELEPHONY MARKET BY REGION, 2014
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