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Wainhouse Research analyzes the market trends, technologies/products, vendors, applications, and related services in the Unified Communications and rich media conferencing fields. We publish our free news bulletin, whitepapers, industry reports, produce industry events, and provide related consulting services. More about WR or contact WR for assistance.

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Volume 9 Issue #20 2-Jul-08
WR Summit Boston 2008
The WR Collaboration Summit 2008
16, 17, 18 July - Boston, MA. USA
Bringing Suppliers, End Users, Channel Partners, and Service Providers together in an interactive forum on Unified Communications
See Boston08 for latest agenda, details, & registration
New white papers now available:
Addressing the Challenges Facing the Distributed, 21st Century Business Through Telework
Practical Methods for Transforming Organizational DNA through New Ways of Working
Understanding & Deploying a Conferencing VNOC
Evaluation: Emblaze-VCON VCBPro Video Bridge
Telepresence on a Videoconferencing Budget
See White Papers for your FREE copies
The Enterprise
Social Networking Landscape
Volume 1: Market Dynamics, Sizing and Forecast
While social networking (SN) is best known as a consumer technology, employees are starting to bring SN tools into the workplace to help make it more productive. We call this trend enterprise social networking (ESN). This report, the first of two volumes, analyzes trends and adoption patterns and forecasts the size and growth
of this rapidly emerging market.
For details & a free executive summary see Reports

Mobile Unified Communications
Mobile Workforce Communications Choices
for CXOs and Managers
This report describes solutions aimed at integrating mobile devices within a larger unified communications strategy. Mobile unified communications offerings from 28 providers are reviewed, including an overview of each offering's value proposition and a description
of how it works including key capabilities.
The report concludes with a matrix
comparing the solutions covered.
For details & a free executive summary see UC Suite

Unified Communications
Market Sizing & Forecast
Wainhouse Research teamed with In-Stat to compile what we believe is the first comprehensive worldwide market sizing and five-year forecast for Unified Communications products and services. The resulting two volumes go beyond the traditional rich media conferencing market by including the incremental segments that compose the full unified communications space, and estimating the percentage of each market that truly offers Unified Communications solutions.
For details & free executive summaries see
UC/RMC Forecast

The Distance Education and
e-Learning Landscape
Vol 1: Learning Management Platforms, Software & Tools
Volume 1 of a three part series, this report captures market trends as of 2007 and provides a coherent view of the coming intersection between real-time conferencing tools and the many disparate corporate and educational LMS products and services. This volume provides an industry overview of LMS's and ancillary, influential software tools, complete with profiles of the leading providers. The report concludes with market sizing over three segments (K-12, higher ed, corporate) and a five year forecast, as well as a set of predictions and probabilities for educational and corporate learning markets.
For details & a free executive summary see Reports

Visual Communications in China:
Navigating the Crossroads
China is at a crossroads. This report outlines the dramatic cultural and economic trends that are well underway and how they are influencing the Chinese market for rich media conferencing solutions. The report also profiles the top 15 vendors, provides an analysis of their China market strategies, and ends with a detailed five-year forecast for videoconferencing endpoints and MCUs as well as web conferencing client/server solutions in mainland China.
For details & a free executive summary see Reports

Microsoft's Software-Powered
Unified Communications Strategy
A Critical Assessment of Office Communications Server 2007 and its Fitness as an Enterprise Communications Solution
This report provides decision makers and enterprise technologists an impartial deep view into Microsoft's unified communications and collaboration strategy and the new OCS 2007 platform. The client-server architecture is analyzed in detail, along with how telephony systems can integrate with the system. Strengths and weaknesses are discussed, and pricing and configuration details are reviewed. The report concludes with WR's assessment of Microsoft's probability for success in this market.
For details & a free executive summary see UC Suite

Unified Communications
Market Intelligence Suite
This series of five market
intelligence reports covers
Unified Communications from the software vendor as well as from the telephony provider approaches.
They are an indispensable reference for guiding end users
and vendors alike.
For details and free executive summaries see UC Suite
Introducing our
on-line content subscription service.
We invite you to visit wrplatinum.com
to take a look for yourself.
A research program to better understand
web conferencing usage and user preferences
WebMetrics 2H 2007 now available
See WebMetrics for complete details.

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