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Research and Markets: Get an Insight into Microsoft's Presence-Enabled Real-Time Communications Strategy

Posted on: Thursday, 7 July 2005, 09:00 CDT

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c20300) has announced the addition of Microsoft's Presence-Enabled Real-Time Communications Strategy to their offering

What Every Organization Should Know about the 800 Pound Gorilla's Voice, Video, and Web Collaboration Solutions & Partner Ecosystem

The worldwide migration to IP communications, the emerging importance of presence, and the capability to offer full telephony functionality in software all point toward Microsoft as a compelling vendor and a fierce competitor in the battle for the enterprise collaboration desktop. Microsoft already controls over 90% of the desktop computer operating systems in the world and has licensed over 400 million seats of Microsoft Office Suite. The company also has a formidable software development organization and has the resources to be a market maker. This year, Microsoft released a new presence and IM server, a new unified desktop client, and significant enhancements to its web conference product.

Yet, despite the products and obvious advantages, does Microsoft's real-time collaboration strategy deliver a complete and compelling solution? Besides presence and IM, what does an enterprise get from Microsoft out of the box? What else is needed for a full deployment, and who are the partners enterprises can rely on? What do Microsoft's competitors need to look out for?

This report provides a deep view into Microsoft's presence-enabled real-time communications strategy and products, describing Microsoft's product capabilities in detail. We point out what Microsoft delivers and reveal which functionalities one must go to a partner company to obtain. We describe 12 strengths Microsoft has in the market and 4 market weaknesses. We list 6 concerns we have with Microsoft's web conferencing platform. We discuss the value end users and vendor partners will find in Microsoft's solutions as well as some of the concerns they have. We list and describe Microsoft's major competitors.

Companies mentioned:

- Akonix

- AOL

- Ascendent Systems

- Bell Canada

- Brainshark

- British Telecom

- BroadSoft Inc

- CAI Networks

- Conference Plus, Inc.

- Connected Innovation

- Cordant

- Descartes Systems Group, Inc

- Dimension Data

- eDial, Inc

- F5 Networks

- FaceTime Communications

- Fenestrae

- Followap Telecommunications

- Foundry Networks Inc

- Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories Inc.

- GeoLearning, Inc.

- Global Crossing

- IMlogic

- Ingate Systems

- InterCall

- IntraTel Connect, LLC

- Jasomi Networks

- MCI

- MessageVine

- Mitel

- Netrake

- NewStep Networks, Inc

- OSIsoft, Inc

- Parlano

- PDAapps, Inc

- Polycom

- RADVISION

- Research in Motion (RIM)

- Rivotek, Inc

- Siebel Systems

- Siemens Communications

- Sybari Software Inc.

- Sylantro Systems Corporation

- TANDBERG

- TREND Micro

- Vonexus

- VERITAS Software Corporation

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c20300

Source: Business Wire

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