Frost & Sullivan: Asia-Pacific Market Enterprise Mobile Collaboration Services to Witness Strong Growth; Cloud-based and Hybrid Delivery Model to Coexist

Frost & Sullivan: Asia-Pacific MarketFrost & Sullivan: Asia-Pacific Market Enterprise Mobile Collaboration Services to Witness Strong Growth; Cloud-based and Hybrid Delivery Model to Coexist PR Newswire SINGAPORE, March 19, 2014 -- Integrated solutions are likely to be preferred over standalone applications in the near future The growing mobile and remote workforce is pushing enterprises across Asia-Pacific to adopt comprehensive mobile collaboration services. Unified communication (UC) vendors and cloud service providers with mature hosted/cloud infrastructure are offering solutions based on different subscription models to cater to varying end-user needs. While basic mobile collaboration service packages – with email, calendar, contact and IM/presence – have commanded the most attention thus far, advanced cloud-based enterprise mobile collaboration services including mobile voice and conferencing will dominate the market in the future. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Analysis of the Enterprise Mobile Collaboration Services Market in Asia-Pacific, CY2013, finds that the total number of active users is estimated to be US$1.12 million in 2013 and forecasted to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 21.4% through 2018. The study covers mobile email, voice, messaging, and conferencing solutions of which mobile voice, messaging, and conferencing represent key growth areas.