Microsoft’s Unified Communications Product Slow to Catch On

The latest Enterprise Telephony Report by Infonetics Research has come out.

Found in this report, Matthias Machowinski projects that while even increasing 1% in the first quarter of 2007, TDM PBX phone system sales are expected to continue the overall decline (the small rise of 1% was the first in six months).

Machowski also doesn’t think that Microsoft’s Office Communications Server is going to fair better. He thinks it is not going to have the massive impact that some others say it will.

Some highlights from the report:

Overall enterprise telephony revenue is on track for another year of double-digit growth;

Hybrid PBX systems represent 63% of all PBX/KTS system line shipments worldwide in 1Q07, and will increase to 72% by 2010;

Avaya is the market share leader for worldwide IP PBX revenue in 1Q07, followed closely by Cisco and Siemens;

Cisco maintains a strong lead in IP deskphone and IP softphone sales, accounting for almost half the units shipped worldwide in 1Q07.

The enterprise telephony market was flat in North America in 1Q07, weak in Europe, and strong in Asia Pacific;

n 1Q07, worldwide total PBX/KTS system sales inched up 1% sequentially, and are up 8% from a year ago in 1Q06;

The overall market will total $11.9 billion in 2010;