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Gartner Still Ranks NEC No. 1 For Enterprise Telephony |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Thursday, 23 August 2007 |
Despite the Hoopla surrounding the emerging titans of IP Telephony, for the second year running NEC Corporation has been ranked first in worldwide enterprise telephony equipment market share by Gartner.
According to Gartner's "Market Share: Enterprise Telephony
Equipment, Worldwide, 2006," NEC still leads the world in global
extension line shipments with a 12 percent market share.
The Gartner study says NEC's
enterprise telephony line shipments grew 11 percent over 2005, making
this the company's second year to achieve the top position.
NEC
puts that down to strong sales in its Asia/Pacific and Latin American
regions, which respectively experienced 13 percent and 15 percent
increases overall.Gartner also cites NEC's focus on vertical markets and strong dealer network as growth contributors.
"NEC's success, as illustrated by Gartner's
report, underscores our commitment to growing market share by providing
both traditional and IP-based telephony solutions with a clear vision
for the future," saidKazuo Tsuzuki, Associate Senior Vice President at NEC
Corporation. "We will continue this flexible approach to help our
customers exceed their business and IT organizational goals both today
and tomorrow.
"NEC experienced another fantastic growth year
globally in 2006. We can attribute this success to not only great
products and applications, but also our focus on excellent customer
service and support," continued Mr.Tsuzuki. "Gartner's report illustrates NEC's
commitment to overall quality, and to supporting a range of
organizations from small to very large with innovative, flexible and
reliable communications solutions."
NEC
recently revealed it has
entered into a contract to acquire Sphere Communications for USA$42
million. Sphere specialises in communications software and will helpNEC
build its IP Telephony credentials generally and its unified
communications specifically.
Commentators suggest that the Sphere technology will enable NEC
and third party developers to build communications systems that
integrate communications into business applications and processes.
www.nec.com
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