The Seamless Enterprise

Several research companies just announced forecasts for the Unified Communications (UC) market. Infonetics Research expects the UC market to top $1 billion by 2013, and Wainhouse Research sees the UC industry growing to a healthy $30 billion market in just five years. Should we be surprised? Are enterprises integrating UC into their plans and budgets, despite constraints, and actually deploying UC solutions?

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You have to love independent surveys. I can stand up in front of customers all day and tell them how good a job Sprint is doing, but they tend to discount what I say since I work for Sprint. You can’t really blame them; they hear that from everybody. So it’s great when a third-party survey – particularly one done by two well-respected organizations – comes along and makes the point. (more…)

On December 29^th, Information Week announced that a German computer scientist cracked the encryption algorithm that secures 80% of the world’s mobile phones. This means more than 3 billion mobile users, in over 200 countries, could be compromised. That sounds big, but just how big is the threat, and what does it mean to your enterprise? (more…)

Watch for the enterprise to drive mobile cloud computing adoption for the short term, before consumer applications help that side of the business catch up and surpass business usage. That was one of the take-aways from a December 10 ABI Research webinar on mobile cloud computing. (more…)

Most mid-sized to larger organizations, according to one recent survey, will be moving to cloud computing the next couple of years. Keeping the “trust but verify” philosophy in mind, these companies say they will start with their non-mission-critical applications…and expand once they’ve proven it works. (more…)