Corporate IP Telephony leaders… according to Gartner
Posted on November 18, 2007
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Each year Gartner produces “Magic Quadrant” reports. The report attempts to classify vendors according to their ability to execute and their completeness of vision. The below table defines the quadrants.
The following quadrants are specifically for corporate telephony vendors in the major markets of North America, APAC and EMEA.
What I find immediately interesting is the difference between the regions and vendor placements. Cisco, Avaya and Nortel are the only vendors to be in the magic quadrant (i.e. upper right quadrant) in all three regions.
Shortel, Toshiba, Vertical Communications, Sphere Communications, 3Com and Inter-Tel appear to have strengths in North America only with no representation (at least from Gartner’s perspective) in EMEA or APAC (I have actually seen Shortel starting a key push here in Europe).
Samsung, LG Electronics, Panasonic and Ericsson appear to have strengths in EMEA only (with the exception of Ericsson who also appears in APAC).
So do reports like Gartner’s really matter? Well they can’t hurt. An International firm deploying a global IP Telephony solution should probably think twice if considering a North America only vendor for example… this doesn’t mean to use Gartner’s information as gospel but you will only benefit by understanding the Gartner placement, or lack of placement!, for any vendors you are considering.
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