Unified comms investment to boom

A growing number of businesses are set to invest in unified communications technology according to new reports.

Research from Datamonitor for Dimension Data reveals that more than half of all IT managers and users throughout the world consider unified communications to be a maturing technology enjoying strong positive growth and expect it to become commonplace in the future.

It is thought that investment the technology is on track to grow significantly in the coming years as more firms look to exploit the emerging technology.

"Whilst organisations have been reluctant or unable to adopt these technologies as a corporate standard… clients around the world are telling us that consumers are bringing these technologies into the workplace,' commented Dave D'Aprano of Dimension Data.

Click-to-dial on PC desktops have been highlighted as a key unified communications technology that is seen as "maturing" by many IT managers and professional users.

Microsoft has announced plans to launch a new unified communications wave as of October this year.