Decision Matix: Selecting a Collaboration Vendor (Competitor Focus)

The Collaboration Decision Matrix outlines the competitive dynamics within the collaboration market and guides IT decision makers to select a vendor based on its product strength, reputation among customers, and impact in the market. Datamonitor provides a holistic view of vendor capabilities and recommends those you should explore, consider and, most importantly, shortlist.

Scope

• Provides an overview of the most important trends affecting the collaboration market and influencing its competitive dynamics.
• Delivers a comprehensive comparison of vendors' products, market impact, and user sentiment.
• Presents a detailed view of vendors' respective strengths and weaknesses, and provides advice on the suitability of their offering.
• Collaboration vendors profiled include: Adobe, EMC, Cisco, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Nortel, Open Text and Oracle.

Highlights

Datamonitor believes that the enterprise collaboration products can be broadly segmented into the following categories: productivity suites, content management systems, team workspaces, and social networks.

Datamonitor believes that the collaboration market is going to remain divided between niche vendors offering excellent specialized products and larger vendors looking to migrate customers onto their collaboration platforms.

There will be further consolidation in the enterprise collaboration market. Large vendors will enhance their portfolios with specialist expertise and niche vendors will grow their customer bases through acquiring their competition.

Reasons to Purchase

• Gain detailed knowledge of enterprise collaboration vendors' strengths with regards to products, user sentiment and market impact.
• Collaboration vendors can benchmark their performance in various key criteria against their competitors.
• IT managers will gain valuable insight to improve their collaboration strategy and inform their purchasing decisions.