IBM ranked as Specialist in Hosted Business Email Market Quadrant for 2012 - FREE COPY
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The Market Quadrant 2012 for Hosted Business Email and Collaboration by The Radicati Group, Inc was released. While IBM was listed as a Specialist in the report, they also appeared in the lower left corner which shows a loyal subscriber base but behind on capabilities and innovation.
The Radicati Group evaluated 15 cloud-based Hosted Business Email and Collaboration vendors based on various technology platforms, including POP3/IMAP, Microsoft Exchange, and other proprietary technologies
The quadrant choices were mature, top, trail blazers and specialists. Google showed itself as a Top Player. Functionality was rated 1-10 with 10 being the highest and Market Share assigned to installed base in reverse numbering. Meaning the largest installed base was 1. (that is silly tome to not be consistent in numbering direction).
Their definition matches hundreds of current providers:
Hosted Business Email and Collaboration Providers offer cloud-based email services that provide robust, enterprise-grade functionality aimed at business users. These providers typically offer email services on a multi-tenant server located in their data centers.
Their statistic says that 21% of business email is hosted. I find this number quite high and I am unsure of the sample rate. Reading through the requirements and other options, you can make your own conclusions on how they come up with such numbers.
The report is a long 48 pages but much of it is a listing of those companies in the quadrant. Using your own math you could plug in other companies or even dispute why a specific one got placed in a certain corner. Definitely worth the read and the discussion about it.
You can download your free copy of the Hosted Business Email and Collaboration - Market Quadrant 2012 from The Radicati Group, Inc. right here.
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On Thursday, January 3rd, 2013 by Chris Miller
