Yankee Group Global Network Strategies Survey Results Outline Path to Winning Enterprise Business
Tuesday, 24 January 2006
Yankee Group announced the availability of the results from its Global Network Strategies (GNS) surveys. Survey data reveals enterprise telecommunications trends and differences from four geographic regions and identifies the key growth areas for winning global and regional business in 2006.
Applying proprietary Yankee Group methodology, the GNS surveys gauge enterprise use of integrated voice and data technology, mobility, managed services and application adoption, budget trends and networking decision drivers. The surveys also evaluate the criteria enterprises use to select network solutions providers.
Yankee Group analysis of these surveys indicates two major global trends:
1. Enterprises will increase network spending on IP/MPLS deployment in support of information communication technology (ICT).
2. Increasingly aggressive systems integrators and vendor competitors mean that traditional enterprise service providers must adopt new strategies to win both regional and global business.
From a regional perspective, the key findings across the five GNS surveys – United States, Canada, EMEA, Asia-Pacific and Brazil – include:
· US: 11 percent of respondents have fully deployed IP telephony (IPT), 55 percent have deployed IPT to some locations and another 17 percent say they are testing it with a few users
· Canada: Enterprises are interested in working with telecom service providers and systems integrators for installation and equipment for their converged solution but 41 percent are reluctant to outsource/out-task the maintenance, keeping this in-house
· EMEA: 95 percent of European MNCs have implemented or planned to implement a converged voice and data network
· Asia-Pacific: 60 percent of MNCs are in the process of integrating converged voice and data networks, however; uncertainty remains about its cost-effectiveness
· Brazil: 66 percent of Brazilian enterprises have implemented voice and data convergence in some or all of their network, driven primarily by cost savings and the desire to implement bandwidth-intensive applications
Companies identified in the survey include: AT&T, British Telecom, China Telecom, Equant/France Telecom, Global Crossing, HP, IBM, MCI Sprint, Telefónica and VSNL.
"Whether on a regional or global level, we are seeing ICT reshape the enterprise playing field as new market entrants force creative competitive strategies," said Erica Fox, Yankee Group, director, Global Telecom and Wireless Services. "The data from our GNS surveys helps both service and equipment providers and systems integrators navigate this changing landscape to identify opportunities to increase revenue in 2006."
The five GNS surveys include Global Network Strategies Survey United States (SM), Global Network Strategies Survey Canada(SM), Global Network Strategies Survey Europe(SM), Global Network Strategies Survey Asia-Pacific(SM) and Global Network Strategies Survey Brazil(SM). Each survey is a quantitative assessment of multinational corporations'-headquartered in the region of the associated survey-use of, plans for, challenges in and experiences in global networking and communications.