Wainhouse Research Releases Comprehensive Report on Microsoft's Real-Time Communications Vision, Product Strategies, and Partner Ecosystem
Posted on: Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 06:00 CDT
Research report examines the future of enterprise communications for voice, video, and web collaboration and provides insights for guiding businesses IT decision making.
Wainhouse Research announces the publication of a major new industry research report, "Microsoft's Presence-Enabled Real-Time Communications Strategy: What Every Organization Should Know About the 800-Pound Gorilla's Voice, Video, and Web Collaboration Solutions and Partner Ecosystem"
The 235-page report presents a comprehensive analysis of Microsoft's integrated enterprise collaboration product offerings for presence-enabled VoIP, IP video, instant messaging and web conferencing. It also analyzes the firm's vast partner ecosystem, including companies such as Siemens Communications, Genesys Telecommunications, Polycom, Research in Motion, Radvision, Siebel Systems, British Telecom, and MCI.
"Few sources exist for helping businesses to craft a comprehensive IP communications strategy for their firm and to understand the bewildering array of technologies and vendors in the marketplace," states report co-author, Dr. E. Brent Kelly, partner of Wainhouse Research. "This report provides useful guidance for companies of all sizes for understanding not only how Microsoft's products work, but also how the products and services from more than 40 strategic partners can integrate with Microsoft's desktop applications and communications systems."
The report provides an exhaustive third-party analysis of Microsoft's strategy for dominating the desktop communications and collaboration market, presents a summary of product strengths and weaknesses, and assesses Microsoft's probability of success in the collaborative communications marketplace. It also provides commentary on Microsoft's major competitors in this market including Cisco Systems, IBM, and Oracle.
The executive summary and a complete table of contents are online at http://www.wainhouse.com/reports.
Wainhouse Research is an independent market research firm that focuses on critical issues in rich media communications and real-time collaboration. The company conducts research studies, provides strategy advice to vendors and enterprises, publishes industry reports, and delivers public and private seminars.
Source: Business Wire
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