by Michael Brandenburg | Jun 19, 2020 | Cloud, Digital Transformation, Enterprise, Frost Perspectives
Frost & Sullivan’s Connected Work research team has been charting the progression of enterprise communications for over two decades. In that time, we have collectively witnessed several significant shifts. The first was the evolution from standalone on-premises... Read more 
by Anisha Vinny | Apr 27, 2020 | Big Data, Cloud, Consumer, COVID19, CyberSecurity, Digital Media, Digital Transformation, Enterprise, Frost Perspectives, Mobile & Wireless
The starkest difference on television since COVID-19 has got to be the complete disappearance of live sports programming. The Olympics, the Masters, the Boston Marathon, NBA, NHL and MLB seasons among many, many others have all been either suspended or canceled.... Read more 
by Ron Gherman | Apr 2, 2020 | Big Data, Cloud, Consumer, COVID19, Digital Media, Digital Transformation, Enterprise, Frost Perspectives, Mobile & Wireless
The Strategic Imperative Frost & Sullivan believes that service providers and network operators will start to look at raising their network investments in response to rising levels of the pandemic traffic as more cities and states start enforcing “Stay at home”... Read more 
by Mohamed Alaa Saayed | Apr 1, 2020 | Cloud, Digital Transformation, Enterprise, Frost Perspectives, Mobile & Wireless
Individuals from different companies are increasingly working together using modern team collaboration applications as opposed to traditional communications methodologies such as email. This new trend in intercompany collaboration is increasingly growing in importance... Read more 
by Roopa Honnachari | Mar 23, 2020 | Cloud, COVID19, Digital Transformation, Frost Perspectives
These are unprecedented times. COVID-19 has forced most people to be homebound and to follow physical distancing guidelines (in this hyper-connected era, we all are anything but socially isolated!). If not for technology, it is hard to imagine how working parents and... Read more 
by Vinay Venkatesan | Mar 4, 2020 | Big Data, Cloud, Consumer, Digital Media, Digital Transformation, Electronics & Security, Enterprise, Frost Perspectives, Mobile & Wireless, The Internet of Things
2020 marks the year when innovative technologies such as drone deliveries, 5G, disruptive retail solutions and new form factors in digital interfaces will achieve widespread adoption. The constantly evolving digital ecosystem and frantic adoption rates require quick... Read more 
by Rob Arnold | Jan 29, 2020 | Cloud, Digital Transformation, Enterprise, Frost Perspectives
If you’re not sure whether it’s time to modernize your communications solutions—either as part of broader digital transformation efforts or separately—be assured that it is indeed time. Many disruptor companies have already migrated from the legacy technologies that... Read more 
by Mariana Fernandez | Nov 12, 2019 | Big Data, Cloud, Digital Media, Digital Transformation, Enterprise, Frost Perspectives
By: Mukul Krishna, Global Head of Practice, Digital Media OpenText has chosen a strategic, inorganic growth path through acquisition over the years. OpenText was one of the first vendors to recognize the critical role managing enterprise information will play... Read more 
by Roopam Jain | Nov 12, 2019 | Cloud, Consumer, Customer Contact, Digital Media, Digital Transformation, Enterprise, Frost Perspectives
Since the launch of its first product, Zoom has morphed considerably from a cloud video conferencing provider to its current, fast-growing focus on end-to-end enterprise communications. Zoom’s strategy of building a strong, well-functioning core, i.e., its wildly... Read more 
by Elka Popova | Oct 17, 2019 | Cloud, Digital Transformation, Frost Perspectives
Making a splash in an already news-filled space is a daunting task. Yet, the RingCentral-Avaya strategic partnership announced last week certainly made a splash. The two companies already discussed certain partnership details here, here and here. Media coverage... Read more by Frost & Sullivan | Jun 6, 2019 | Cloud, Digital Media, Digital Transformation, Frost Perspectives
As technology innovators, high tech companies drive in the IT fast lane. They are relentlessly looking to get ahead with innovations in Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, and mobility, among other things. However, significant... Read more by Karyn Price | Jun 5, 2019 | Cloud, Digital Transformation, Frost Perspectives
Today’s businesses have doubled down on the hybrid and multi-cloud IT models, for a variety of reasons, including application performance, data security and sovereignty, and regulatory compliance. Despite the assertions of industry pros that said that public cloud... Read more by Michael Brandenburg | May 9, 2019 | Cloud, Digital Transformation, Frost Perspectives
For years, it seemed that the key focus of IT and telecom decision makers was on moving communications to the cloud. Industry watchers drove the conventional wisdom that suggested that all communications would be handled as a service in some unknown data center.... Read more by Elka Popova | Mar 27, 2019 | Cloud, Digital Transformation, Enterprise, Frost Perspectives
Reflecting on UCaaS Announcements around Enterprise Connect 2019 Yet another busy, informative and exciting Enterprise Connect is over. Many vendors, service providers, resellers, enterprise buyers, consultants and analysts spend three to five days under the glass... Read more by Frost & Sullivan | Mar 26, 2019 | Cloud, Digital Transformation, Enterprise, Frost Perspectives
For watchers of the unified communications industry, the yearly jaunt to Orlando for Enterprise Connect is a marathon: with seemingly hundreds of press releases, analyst briefings and other meetings. With a couple of days to process, two themes emerged for me around... Read more by Roopam Jain | Mar 14, 2019 | Big Data, Cloud, Digital Media, Digital Transformation, Enterprise, Frost Perspectives, The Internet of Things
Businesses today have a strong need to drive their strategy and growth by reaching outside of their own knowledge domains. Consultants are a trusted source of information to gain access to objective insights from third party experts. In recent years, large consulting... Read more 
by Mohamed Alaa Saayed | Feb 11, 2019 | Cloud, Digital Transformation, Frost Perspectives, The Internet of Things
With an unbeatable location, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) celebrated its 100 years by hosting its CONNEX19 partner, executive and analyst events in the iconic principality of Monaco. The anniversary was an opportunity for the company to not only update the market... Read more by Rob Arnold | Jan 25, 2019 | Cloud, Customer Contact, Frost Perspectives
This week Avaya hosted its ENGAGE conference in Austin, TX. The multiple thousands of attendees spanned customers, channel partners, technology partners, media, consultants and analysts. The company made numerous announcements during the event. Here we’d like to focus... Read more 
by Mohamed Alaa Saayed | Jan 25, 2019 | Cloud, Digital Transformation, Enterprise, Frost Perspectives
I was one of the fortunate analysts from team Frost & Sullivan to attend Avaya Engage and its Industry Influencers in the beautiful city of Austin, Texas. In addition to acknowledging the warm hospitality of the entire Avaya group and its ecosystem community, I... Read more by Roopam Jain | Oct 19, 2018 | Cloud, Digital Transformation, Enterprise, Frost Perspectives
Video conferencing adoption is booming. According to Frost & Sullivan research, the overall video and web conferencing market is on a high growth trajectory and is forecast to grow from $8.5 billion in 2017 to $11.0 billion by 2023. It’s no wonder then, that many... Read more 
