A new Frost and Sullivan report predicts that our society's quest for all things green will lead to growth in the unified communications (UC) market.
With our focus on carbon footprints and our business' effects on the environment, more and more companies are realizing how teleconferencing, video conferencing and unified communication systems can cut down on travel costs and envrironmental impact. The trend is already being realized, the research firm reports, as the web conferencing services market in Europe grew by 19.3 percent in 2009.
The added bonus of going green with UC--companies are noticing--is that... it's cheaper! Less travel costs, less electricity bills. Also, by moving to UC systems, they are finding more effecient forms of communication within their organizations and with their customers.
For more:
- read the release [1]
Related articles:
Cable companies provide lots of VoIP service [2]
VoIP to see 79% penetration in 3 years [3]
100 million mobile VoIP users by 2012 - FierceVoIP [4]
Links:
[1] http://www.fiercevoip.com/press-releases/frost-sullivan-frost-sullivan-green-it-trend-drives-unified-communications-adoption
[2] http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/report-cable-companies-provide-lots-voip-service/2010-06-07
[3] http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/report-voip-see-79-penetration-3-years/2010-02-04
[4] http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/report-100-million-mobile-voip-users-2012/2010-05-31