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Archives for June, 2009


Developing Communications Outsourcing Magic Quadrant Criteria

by Eric Goodness  |  June 28, 2009  |  1 Comment

The challenge to creating MQ criteria is to make the field of vendors relevant to the greatest part of the market.

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Unified Communications – In the Cloud or In the Closet?

by Eric Goodness  |  June 4, 2009  |  3 Comments

I’m finishing up a User Wants and Needs survey instrument to test when large companies will adopt unified communications (UC) technologies and how they will manage and support their UC:  in-house (premise-based) or managed/outsourced (premise-based) or hosted/as-a-Service.  Other data points I’ll be looking for include: Reductions in capex and opex they expect to achieve through [...]

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Remote IT Management: The SMB Is The New Enterprise

by Eric Goodness  |  June 2, 2009  |  2 Comments

Yesterday, I finally pushed the revised forecast for Remote IT Management into the Gartner Editing queue.  To create the forecast I interviewed about 50 different companies that offer RIM services – large companies, small companies, manufacturers, SIs, outsourcers and carriers.  A few things are clear from this exercise: RIM services are finally impacting the market [...]

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