A competitive analysis of On-Premises Unified Communications Solutions.

For Immediate Release

Contact:
Lauren Reardon
The Radicati Group, Inc.
(650) 322-8059
lreardon@radicati.com

Palo Alto, CA – December 9th, 2008 – The Radicati Group, Inc. has released a new market brief on the On-Premises Unified Communications Market, which analyzes the market’s highly competitive landscape.

Radicati Market Quadrants rank vendors based on a four quadrant system, which includes “Mature Players,” “Specialists,” “Trail Blazers,” and “Top Players” quadrants. Leading players in each market segment are ranked based on the features and functionality of their solution and their market share in that segment. Radicati Market Quadrants provide a comparative viewpoint of the market, and an analysis of each vendor included in the study, with both strengths and weaknesses.

The Radicati Group, Inc. segments the Unified Communications market into four segments: On-Premises UC products, UC Platforms for Service Providers, Hosted Business UC Services, and Telecom UC Services. This study focuses only on the On-Premises UC products segment. Vendors in this segment come from three distinct backgrounds, PBX and telephony system vendors, messaging software vendors, and voicemail/fax system vendors.

Vendors evaluated in the report include Active Voice, Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, AVST, Cisco, CommuniGate Systems, Genesys Telecommunication Laboratories, IBM, Interactive Intelligence, Microsoft, Mitel Networks, Nortel Networks, Siemens AG, and ShoreTel.

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