Unified Communications opportunity can be lost by mad management
June 26, 2008
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“I think unified communications is going to compound this problem,” said Sara Radicati, president of Palo Alto, Calif.-based Radicati Group. “But the problem is not with the technology, it’s that the whole style of working is changing, the whole relationship between employer and employee is changing.” Radicati said the problem is particularly acute in the U.S., where long work hours and loads of email are something of a status symbol. “Anyone in a professional field is expected not to have any work hours anymore,” she said. “You come out of the shower and you check your BlackBerry.”

Fear Holds Back Hosted Email Archiving
June 26, 2008
Internetnews.com

Despite the benefits and increasing popularity of the Software as a Service (SaaS) model, companies are still wary about the idea of farming out data archiving to a partner. Just 24 percent of enterprises are using hosted archiving solutions, compared to 76 percent using on-premise technologies, according to a new study by the Radicati Group, a research firm.

Xobni Integrates With LinkedIn to Provide Instant Contact Information for Outlook Publication: PR Newswire
June 26, 2008
PR Newswire

The Radicati Group, an email research firm, estimates that 210 billion emails are sent every day, and predicts that by 2012 that number will grow to 419 billion. This enormous growth in email volume leads to substantial information overload, exactly the problem Xobni is helping people combat.

Clive Thompson on How Email Bots Can Deal With Your Overstuffed Inbox
June 23, 2008
Wired Magazine

Studies show that there are 77 billion corporate email messages sent every day, worldwide. By 2012, that number is expected to more than double. The Radicati Group calculates that we already spend nearly a fifth of our day dealing with these messages; imagine a few years down the road, when it takes up 40 percent of our time.

Younified Comms, Announces World’s First Multi-Currency Business Email Service
June 22, 2008
PR-inside.com

The World’s first multi-currency Email service allows personal businesses to gain global advantage and economies of scale with the local payment options they need. A study by the Radicati Group Inc. states that by 2009 there will be in excess of 250 million Email mailboxes being used by businesses employing less than 100 people. At the same time more than 280 billion email messages will be distributed globally every day.

LiveOffice to Ease SMB E-mail Archiving
June 16, 2008
Internetnews.com

LiveOffice aims to improve e-mail archiving for small to midsize businesses as well as provide better backup and security with a new hosted offering called Mail Archive. Vendor competition promises to spike, as the e-mail archiving market is predicted to swell from $1.7 billion to $6.6 billion by 2012, according to analyst firm Radicati Group.

Make It Stop! Crushed by Too Many E-Mails
June 16, 2008
NPR

Daily e-mail volume is now at 210 billion a day worldwide and increasing, according to The Radicati Group, a market research firm.

Best Practices for Mitigating Email Risk: A Free Webcast from Messaging Architects
June 16, 2008
PRWeb

According to a recent study by Radicati Group, six percent of workers admitted to having emailed confidential or sensitive company information to someone they were not supposed to.