Future of Unified Communications & Collaboration is Mobile

Introduction

The Current State of Communications and Collaboration

UCC Enables Real-time Collaboration

Meetings and Calls Need to Go Beyond Voice

Web and Video Conferencing: Digitizing Open Workspaces and Smaller Huddle Areas

Enterprise Video is on the Rise

Mobile Collaboration: Messaging is the New Way Forward

The UCC Platform

The Landscape of UCC

Multi-Vendor is Still the Answer to UCC

Aragon Advisory

Bottom Line

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The market for communications is shifting to one in which multi-modal interactions will become the norm. Voice, Video, and Messaging Communications and Collaboration will drive the future of this market. As Messaging becomes a larger part of the communications landscape, Mobile Collaboration is poised to take on a larger enterprise role, by way of shifting email to more of a confirmation tool. Moreover, the convergence of content types under UCC would be greatly enhanced by a categorized and dynamic ontology-driven knowledge framework that goes beyond search. Once the framework supports are in place, UCC will accelerate its momentum at an even greater rate than it already is today.

This Research Note identifies the new elements of UCC and how enterprises can plan for the shift to multi-modal communications.

 

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