New study forecasts fast growth for both business and consumer cloud-based email and collaboration services

For Immediate Release
Contact: Todd Yamasaki
The Radicati Group
(650) 322-8059
admin@radicati.com

Palo Alto, CA – August 8th, 2012 – The latest study by The Radicati Group, “Hosted Email and Collaboration Market, 2012-2016,” offers an in-depth analysis of the worldwide market for both business and consumer cloud-based (i.e. hosted) email and collaboration solutions. The study includes market trends, installed base and revenue market share by hosting provider, four-year forecasts, breakouts by region, business size, and platform type.

The study also includes an in-depth analysis of market adoption of Microsoft Hosted Exchange, Microsoft Office 365 and Google Apps. The demographics of organizations migrating to cloud-based email and collaboration services has shifted dramatically over the past year, whereas previously SOHOs and SMBs were the main customers of Hosted Business Email and Collaboration solutions, mid-market and larger organizations are now aggressively moving to the cloud. Additionally, most Hosted Business Email and Collaboration providers are able to offer enhanced services that include: security, encryption, archiving, instant messaging (IM), wireless email management, productivity suites and more to attract larger organizations.

The study includes an analysis of leading business providers: AppRiver, Apptix, Ceryx, Google, IBM, Intermedia, Microsoft, NaviSite, Rackspace, USA.NET, and more; as well as key consumer providers: AOL, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!.

To order a copy of the study, or to subscribe to our market research service, visit our website at https://www.radicati.com, or call Todd Yamasaki at (650) 322-8059.