Mohamed Alaa Saayed - Analyst Profile
Senior Industry Analyst & GIC ICT Team Leader
Frost & Sullivan
Information & Communication Technologies
Summary
Functional Expertise
•13 years of expertise in the telecommunications industry in fields such as research and consulting, strategic planning, competitive intelligence and marketing.
Industry Expertise
•Experience base covering broad range of sectors, leveraging long-standing working relationships with leading industry participants’ Senior Executives
-Enterprise Telephony:
Deep expertise and understanding in: enterprise communications platforms, endpoints, and CPE services.
-Unified Communications & Collaboration:
Deep expertise and understanding in: unified communications solutions, advanced UC clients, mobile UC clients, and UC endpoints.
What I bring to the Team
•Solid analytical skills in the enterprise communications and UC market.
•Strong project ownership and willingness to assume project responsibilities.
•Efficient decision making and problem solving capabilities.
•Continuous innovative thinking and creativity.
Career Highlights
•Extensive expertise in the enterprise communications and unified communications and collaborations space.
•Played a prominent role in the fulfillment of subscription deliverables and consulting projects.
•Managed important client interactions with major industry participants such as Avaya, Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent, Mitel, Siemens, Aastra, Microsoft, Toshiba, etc
•Permanently achieved quarterly performance bonus due to continuous commitment to project management, client relationships, and interaction with global team members.
•Achieved President’s Club Membership recognition to the great overall value the analysts bring to the company’s clients and overall organization.
•Invited to different company events internationally.
Education
•Bachelor of Arts, Business and Management from University of Maryland, European Division, Germany.
- Areas of expertise
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- MARKET RESEARCH
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Recent items from Mohamed Alaa Saayed
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Today, the tablet market is one of the fastest-growing sectors in the mobile computing segment. This market insight provides an analysis of how tablets are redefining the enterprise communications market and how they are impacting enterprise communications vendors’ strategies in terms of product development and technology partnerships. Furthermore, the study explores how tablets are becoming key unified communications and collaboration (UCC) enablers and presents the latest Frost & Sullivan forecasts of consumer and enterprise tablet shipments.
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| Published: Jun 18 2013 | Market Insights |
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I just wrapped up a private market insight entitled: “Beyond the Hype: Leveraging Tablets for Real Business Value”. For a period of two months I had several interviews with key UCC vendors including Aastra, Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Cisco, Mitel, NEC, ShoreTel, and Siemens Enterprise Communications. Discussions centered around topics such as the val...
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| 05 Jun 2013 | Blog post |
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The enterprise communications platforms and endpoints market suffered flat to negative sales in 2012. Almost all types of enterprise communications solutions (e.g., TDM and IP systems, desktop phones) were impacted in revenues due to a tough macro-economic situation. Mobile voice and UC clients represented a notable exception as they continued to...
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| 24 May 2013 | Blog post |
| Published: May 06 2013 | Best Practices |
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This strategic analysis is part of Frost & Sullivan’s continued coverage of the global enterprise communications platform and endpoint market as well as the broader, overall enterprise communications marketplace. Within this Excel-based deliverable, Frost & Sullivan will provide extensive data analysis of the various types of enterprise platforms and endpoints in the market. Frost & Sullivan has also identified key drivers that are contributing to the growth of the market and restraints that are deterring market penetration and revenue growth.
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| Published: Apr 29 2013 | Market Insights |
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Headsets Become a Critical UCC Tool
This study provides an in-depth analysis of the global office and contact center headset market. As part of this analysis, Frost & Sullivan has identified market drivers, restraints, demand patterns, competitive trends, and growth opportunities within the global business headset market. Through extensive primary and secondary research, this analysis provides telecommunication providers and manufacturers with a detailed look at the dynamics of a changing market. Frost & Sullivan expects that this analysis will provide vendors with valuable insights to increase their growth and penetration opportunities within the headset marketplace.
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| Published: Feb 05 2013 | Market Research |
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Over the past five years, IP media phones have emerged as a new category of enterprise communications endpoints offered by various IP phone vendors. While there is still some confusion about what standard characteristics define these devices and whether they have a future in the business arena, Frost & Sullivan wishes to address some of...
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| 02 Jan 2013 | Blog post |
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We have just wrapped up our latest Global Office and Contact Center Headset Market study taking a detailed look at the dynamics of a changing market. Primary and secondary information in conjunction with internal information databases have been used to analyze the market and provide strategic insights and conclusions. Here follows a summary...
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| 12 Dec 2012 | Blog post |
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Identifying Growth Opportunities in a Mature Market
This strategic analysis is part of Frost & Sullivan’s continued coverage of the enterprise communications marketplace. Within this analysis, Frost & Sullivan discusses the market drivers, restraints, competitive landscape, revenue potential, market shares, and key market trends of two main on-site enterprise mobility endpoint options available in the market today: VoWLAN single-mode devices (no smartphones) and DECT handsets. Through extensive primary and secondary research, this analysis provides enterprise device vendors with a detailed look at the current and changing dynamics in this fast-evolving on-site mobility marketplace.
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| Published: Nov 08 2012 | Market Research |
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Last month I had the opportunity to attend the Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Analyst Conference in the beautiful city of Chicago. Many analysts from different world regions focusing on the enterprise communications market were brought together to meet with the ALU Enterprise executive team and hear about the company’s strategic direction, product...
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| 17 Jul 2012 | Blog post |
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This month I had the pleasure to attend the Mitel 2012 Business Partner Conference in San Diego, California. I not only had the opportunity to get to know a beautiful city, but also to learn about the company´s direction, latest advancement and upcoming goals. Overall, Mitel´s event was very upbeat, with scores of partners carrying the company’s fl...
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| 03 Jul 2012 | Blog post |
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Private and Public Clouds to Co-exist in the Near Future
The global enterprise communications platforms and endpoints market study provides an in-depth analysis for the enterprise telephony market, which includes traditional (TDM) telephony and IP enterprise telephony (including the IP PBX market, IP desktop phone market, and IP desktop communication clients). This study provides global market share by line shipments and revenue, IP desktop phone market share by units and revenue, and IP desktop communication clients by units and revenue. SIP phone market share data is also provided. Finally, global forecasts for shipments and revenue are provided for each market segment.
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| Published: May 31 2012 | Market Research |
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Polycom sold its wireless endpoint business to Sun Capital (an affiliate of Sun Capital Partners Inc.) for approximately USD 110 Million. Many see this decision as wise and logical, allowing the company to focus on its core video and UC business, as well as improve its image as a software vendor rather than a hardware company. However, I happen t...
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| 17 May 2012 | Blog post |
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Unified Communications Redefines the Value of Headsets in the Enterprise Space
This study provides an in-depth analysis of the global contact center and office headset market. The types of headsets covered in this research service are as follows: monaural, binaural, over the head, over the ear, convertible, omni-directional, noise-canceling, cordless, wireless, and PC. The study offers global forecasts by unit shipment and revenue. It includes the Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, and North America regions. This study provides headset manufacturers and resellers a detailed analysis of the trends that are driving and restraining this market. Finally, strategic recommendations will be made, which Frost & Sullivan consider to be important in order to guarantee competitiveness in this market.
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| Published: Nov 18 2011 | Market Research |
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Integrating Islands of Information into Common UC Architectures
This analysis provides an insight into voice messaging (VM) and unified messaging (UM) markets, with an emphasis on the latter. With a specific focus on customer premises equipment (CPE)–based unified messaging and voice messaging solutions, the analysis highlights key technology and market trends and provides profiles and competitive analysis of selected vendors. It also provides current and forecasted revenues for the VM/UM market, current and forecasted shipment information for the UM market, and market share analysis of the messaging vendors. The study can help vendors and channel partners develop sustainable business strategies and position their products and solutions more competitively.
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| Published: Nov 16 2011 | Market Research |
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The SIP phone market is one of the topics I am most passionate about inside the enterprise communications arena. It is a market that has been transforming considerably over the last years driven by multiple factors such as new technology innovation, competition, the economy and changing customer demands. While many still think that the years of t...
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| 05 Oct 2011 | Blog post |
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On-site Mobility Market Bounces Back From the Recession and Gains Traction
This strategic analysis is part of Frost & Sullivan’s continued coverage of the enterprise communications marketplace. Within this analysis, Frost & Sullivan has presented the industry challenges, market drivers, restraints, competitive landscape, revenue, market shares, and the key market trends of two of the main on-site enterprise mobility endpoint options available in the market today: VoWLAN single-mode devices (no smartphones) and DECT handsets. With extensive primary and secondary research, this analysis provides enterprise endpoint vendors with a detailed look at the current and changing dynamics in this fast evolving on-site mobility marketplace.
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| Published: Sep 22 2011 | Market Research |
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New Study Coming Soon: Analysis of the World Enterprise Voice and Unified Messaging Platform Markets
As we are about to wrap up our voice and unified messaging study, we would like to share with the UC&C community some of our main findings that are worth mentioning:
•In 2010, the world voice and unified messaging market generated revenues of approximately USD 897.8 Million, a decrease of 5.86 Million from 2009 aggregate revenues.
• Continu...
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| 21 Aug 2011 | Blog post |
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The PBX is Dead! Long Live the Communications System!
The World enterprise telephony platform and endpoint market study provides an in-depth analysis for the enterprise telephony market, which includes traditional telephony (TDM) and IP enterprise telephony (including the IP PBX market, IP desktop phone market and IP desktop communication clients) This study provides global market share by line shipments and revenues, IP desktop phone market share by units and revenues and IP desktop communication clients by units and revenue. Also global forecasts for shipments and revenues are provided. The study includes NA, EMEA, CALA, APAC.
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| Published: Jul 27 2011 | Market Research |
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Many industry observers believe in the imminent death of the IP desktop phone, but Frost & Sullivan maintains that IP desktop phones have not yet realized their full potential.
In 2010, most of the telephony vendors saw healthy double-digit growth in IP desktop devices, and the market is expected to grow considerably within the coming years....
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| 20 May 2011 | Blog post |
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Yesterday some Frost & Sullivan analysts and industry experts debated the potential effect of the launch of the iPad2 tablet on the enterprise market. Different thoughts and opinions were shared by Brent Iadarola, Global Research Director, Mobile & Wireless Communications, Rufus Connell, Vice President of Information and Communication Technolo...
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| 03 Mar 2011 | Blog post |
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