The Radicati Group Releases "Corporate IT Survey - Messaging & Collaboration, 2010-2011"

An Extensive Survey Which Explores IT Budgets, Deployment Choices and Procurement Attitudes of Business Organizations With Regards to Email, Collaboration, Hosted Email, Storage, Archiving, Security, Microsoft SharePoint, Social Networks, Wireless Email, Instant Messaging, and Unified Communications


PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwire - August 23, 2010) - The Radicati Group, Inc.'s latest study, "Corporate IT Survey - Messaging and Collaboration, 2010-2011" provides an in-depth look at corporate IT deployment attitudes, usage, and procurement plans of 100 organizations worldwide, representing over 300,000 email users.

Despite the economic slowdown, 47% of organizations surveyed indicated that their IT budgets have increased from 2009 to 2010. However, "Reducing IT costs" was the top concern for most organizations across all business sizes. "Moving to hosted/cloud based services" and "Security" were the second and third top IT concerns.

Most organizations (48%) felt that the amount of spam that reaches their networks has remained fairly constant over the past 12 months, whereas 39% of organizations reported an increase in the amount of spam and 13% actually reported a decrease.

Social networking was very popular with all organizations, with 35% of organizations indicating they have a company-sanctioned social networking site for their entire organization to use.

To order a copy of the study, or for additional information about our market research programs, please contact us at (650) 322-8059, or visit http://www.radicati.com.

About The Radicati Group, Inc.

The Radicati Group is a leading technology research and advisory firm focused on all aspects of email, security, email archiving, regulatory compliance, wireless technologies, web services, instant messaging, unified communications, social networking, and more. The company provides both quantitative and qualitative information, including detailed market size, installed base and forecast information on a worldwide basis, as well as detailed country breakouts.

The Radicati Group works with corporate organizations to assist in the selection of the right products and technologies to support their business needs, as well as with vendors to define the best strategic direction for their products. We also work with investment firms on a worldwide basis to help identify new investment opportunities.

The Radicati Group, Inc. is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, with offices in London, UK.

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The Radicati Group, Inc.
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