Survey says? Encouraging future for unified communications

While little is recession proof, unified communications (UC) has managed to skirt ground zero of the global economic free fall. In a survey recently conducted by SearchUnifiedCommunications.com, over 50% of respondents expect to spend more on UC in 2010 than they did last year.

Newly published research from Infonetics Research show businesses are investing in communications with shipments of communicator clients increasing almost 1,000% between the first half of 2008 and the first half of 2009.

According to our survey, the top drivers for UC adoption are:

• Increased productivity
• Operational and business process improvement
• Real-time connectivity
• Providing mobile support to employees

Though budget is consistently an obstacle to deploying new technologies, our survey respondents also reported that they simply don’t know enough about available UC options to move forward. While we can’t augment your budgets, we can provide you with the resources you need to better understand unified communications technologies and help you map out a solid ROI strategy.

For starters, here are the top five unified communications issues you can expect in 2010.