Phillips-Infotech Study: Global Revenues For Unified Messaging Services to Reach
$6.8 Billion By 2004
Internet Usage Will Impact Growth of Service Provider Unified Messaging
PARSIPPANY, N.J., Oct 24, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Within the next four years, the worldwide market for unified
messaging services will reach $6.8 billion, with approximately 33 percent of all enterprises using the service according to a study from
Phillips-InfoTech, based here.
"The unified messaging market is already beginning to experience substantial revenue growth which will only continue to skyrocket
through 2004 as sales of unified messaging customer premises equipment (CPE) to organizations of every size increase," said
Lawrence Herman, a Consultant at Phillips-InfoTech, the Parsippany, NJ-based global research and consulting firm.
While the CPE segment -- addressed by current market leaders Avaya, Active Voice Corporation, AVT Corp., Nortel and KeyVoice --
will continue to grow, more significant growth will be experienced in the service provider environment (SPE) segment -- addressed by
infrastructure vendors and application service providers (ASPs) Comverse Technology Inc., Glenayre Technologies Inc, Lucent
Technologies, Unisys, OneBox, Ibabis, Net2Phone and Tornado Development.
The research study -- which was based on interviews with over 200 market experts in unified messaging including service providers,
equipment vendors, and distributors - is the most comprehensive analysis of today's global markets, products, services, and providers
in the worldwide unified messaging marketplace.
The study also analyzed the market growth by application type, geography, distribution, wireline vs. wireless, business vs. consumer,
vertical industry segment, and service provider vs. CPE. Detailed profiles and comparisons of service providers and vendors based in
the U.S. and other countries are provided as well.
The reference document, titled "Unified Messaging Global Industry Analysis: Global Markets, Products, Services and Suppliers" is over
600 pages in length and can be purchased from Phillips-InfoTech at 973-884-0100 or phillips-infotech.com.
InfoTech is a division of The Phillips Group, a global professional services company with offices in Parsippany, NJ, London and
Washington DC, that specializes in market intelligence for the telecommunications and information technologies industries. In addition
to conducting primary research studies, the company offers a comprehensive range of professional services, including custom
consulting, InfoTrack(SM) and TelecomTactics(SM) database products, professional conferences, market and competitive intelligence
analyses and custom marketing programs.
Source: Phillips-InfoTech
Contact:
Michael Cherenson of The Cherenson Group, 973-992-7800,
ext. 104, or mcherenson@cherenson.com, for Phillips-InfoTech |
