Cisco Leads Microsoft, Avaya In Enterprise UC Collaboration Market

Cisco Systems (CSCO) set the pace in the enterprise unified communications (UC) collaboration market during the fourth quarter of 2014, a new report shows.

New Synergy Research Group data revealed Cisco’s enterprise UC collaboration market revenues rose 9 percent between the third and fourth quarters. In addition, Cisco controlled 16 percent of the total enterprise UC collaboration market in the most recent quarter.

“Cisco saw a very nice year-end bump in its telephony revenues,” Synergy founder Jeremy Duke said in a prepared statement. “Cisco dominates in premise-based solutions.”

Microsoft (MSFT) ranked second in the enterprise UC collaboration sector; the Redmond, Washington-based technology giant’s market revenues increased 2 percent in the fourth quarter.

Microsoft’s enterprise UC collaboration market share reached its peak in the first half of 2014, Synergy said. However, Cisco pulled away from Microsoft over the final six months of last year.

Other Synergy findings included:

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Additionally, Synergy noted that total enterprise UC collaboration market revenues hit $8.5 billion during Q4 2014, which represented a 2 percent year-over-year increase.

So what should businesses expect from the enterprise UC collaboration market going forward? Duke said hosted and cloud solutions revenues could “catch up with and surpass premise-based revenues” soon.

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