Report: Cisco Claws Back Enterprise Collaboration Leadership From Microsoft
Total revenues for the second quarter were 2% up on the year.
New Q2 data from Synergy Research Group shows that just one quarter after Microsoft had finally caught up with Cisco in enterprise collaboration infrastructure revenues, Cisco has regained the top spot, though the gap between the two is small. Revenues from collaboration —which includes enterprise voice, UC applications, telepresence, email software, enterprise content management, enterprise social networks, and hosted communications and applications —were $7.7 billion in the quarter, with Cisco’s overall share standing at 16.0% and Microsoft just behind at 15.8%.
Total revenues for the quarter were up 2% year on year, with continued declines in the enterprise voice and telepresence markets being countered by strong growth in other segments. Of the larger segments, particularly strong growth was seen in hosted voice & UCaaS (up 17%), enterprise social networking (up 20%) and hosted web conferencing (up 9%). On a rolling annual basis revenues reached $30.5 billion, up 3% from the preceding four quarters.