The overall research objective is to measure the current use and future decision-making behavior toward unified communications and other workforce technologies around the globe, specifically: desktop, room-based and huddle room video conferencing; audio conferencing; web conferencing; IP telephony; team collaboration tools (e.g., Slack); unified communications (UC) clients; consumer messaging and calling services (e.g., Skype, Google, WhatsApp, WeChat); headsets; and unified messaging.
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The report aims to:
• Understand the IT-related challenges organizations face today
• Assess the current and future use of business communications technologies
• Evaluate factors that drive investments in communications technologies
• Gauge IT and communications trends
• Appraise available IT budgets
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The data were collected using an online survey of 1,067 global IT/telecom decision makers and influencers during the July-August 2019 period.
KEY FEATURES
- IT staff, C-level leaders and department heads are most commonly involved in enterprise digital solution purchase decisions.
- Those same roles are also most consistently involved in driving solutions adoption within their organizations.
- A consumer-like experience is deemed “very influential” in communications and collaboration solution purchase decisions.
- Half of decision-maker respondents “often” consider diverse workforce demographics, compared to 27 percent that “always” consider workforce demographics, in purchase decisions.
- Only 15 percent of respondents view their organizations as part of the late majority or laggards with respect to adoption of new enterprise digital technologies.
- A majority of organizations expect the number of private offices, huddle rooms and mid-to-large conference rooms to increase in the next three years.
- Desktop communications and collaboration tools, wireless enterprise voice devices, video endpoints, and collaboration-equipped huddle spaces rank among the top investments aimed at increasing office productivity.
- The top drivers for investing in communications and collaboration solutions in the next two years include improving teamwork, information management and customer experiences.
- Top investment restraints across most technologies include: cost, lack of perceived value and integration complexity.
- Organizations are almost equally split on whether they have deployed single-vendor vs multi-vendor solutions. Hybrid (cloud and premises-based) architectures will continue to account for a considerable share of customer communications environments.
- Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance communications is a very relevant or somewhat relevant topic for nearly 80 percent of organizations.
- Security concerns and job displacement are top concerns associated with leveraging AI to enhance communications.
- The top four decision-making factors across numerous technologies include: security, ease of use, reliability, and features.
- The top four investments for enterprise digital solutions in 2020 include: big data analytics, web and video conferencing, group video conferencing, and marketing automation.
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