Roopam Jain - Analyst Profile
Industry Director-ICT
Frost & Sullivan
Information & Communication Technologies
Summary
Roopam Jain is Industry Director of the Conferencing and Collaboration practice at Frost & Sullivan. She is a leading expert in conferencing, unified communications, and collaboration technologies. Ms. Jain has 14 years of research and strategic consulting expertise in market and competitive intelligence, analyzing emerging trends and technologies, and working closely with clients to implement sustainable growth strategies.
Ms. Jain’s research and consulting work leverages strong relationships with senior executives at leading vendors and channel partners; and interactions with end users and IT executives across a broad range of sectors in the fast-moving conferencing and collaboration market.
Ms. Jain’s research studies and market insights cover key market trends, user behaviors, adoption factors and challenges surrounding conferencing and collaboration technologies and solutions. Ms. Jain regularly expresses her opinions and insights through social media including LinkedIn, Twitter, and blogs. She has received acclaim for her industry knowledge through articles and quotes in leading publications such as Business Week, New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal.
Ms. Jain graduated with MBA in Marketing Management from Baruch College, City University of New York.
Recent items from Roopam Jain
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2012 saw another solid year of growth for web and video conferencing among businesses. User demand is growing at a strong pace indicating that web and video meetings are going mainstream.
In a recent Frost & Sullivan survey of C-level executives in North America, web and video conferencing ranked high among key enterprise communication application...
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| 14 Jan 2013 | Blog post |
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Web Meetings Morph into Collaborative Workspaces Extending Market Reach
The demand for web conferencing has increased significantly as companies seek greater savings on travel costs and look to implement efficient collaboration across geographically dispersed teams. Improved user experiences and expanded use cases are further driving adoption. Mobility, social media, and video are reshaping how web conferencing will be used in the future. This analysis provides web conferencing providers and their partners with a detailed analysis of the current and changing dynamics in the fast-evolving marketplace.
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| Published: Nov 08 2012 | Market Research |
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A Chilly Outlook for the European Economies Confronts the Industry
Despite increasing awareness of the benefits of videoconferencing, new uncertainties caused by the debt crisis in the Euro Zone and elsewhere, coupled with projected GDP growth of less than 1.5 percent, full recovery of sales to pre-recession (prior to 2008-2009) levels is likely to be delayed. This study provides an in-depth analysis of the trends and factors impacting growth in the European videoconferencing and telepresence endpoints market. The study offers revenue and unit forecasts with projections for the European sub-regions based on a broad set of macro-economic indicators. It also provides a detailed market share and competitive analysis.
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| Published: Oct 15 2012 | Market Research |
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At Polycom’s strategy day yesterday at the NASDAQ Marketsite, the Polycom executive team came out in full force to talk about the company’s new direction. After a lull of almost two years when it seemed like Polycom’s R&D engine had slowed down, the company has announced a set of bold new products and enhancements that hit on all key themes – cloud...
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| 09 Oct 2012 | Blog post |
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Ease of Use and Self-service Capabilities Lead to Mainstream Adoption
Web event services represent a high-growth market within the broader web collaboration market space. This market is now ready to take off driven by high-quality and low-cost solutions combined with a growing ease of use that is making self-service solutions a reality. Improved user experiences and expanded use cases are driving adoption. Mobility, social media, and video are reshaping how web events take place, significantly enhancing participant access and engagement levels. This analysis provides web conferencing and webcasting service providers and their partners with a detailed analysis of the current and changing dynamics in the fast-evolving marketplace.
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| Published: Sep 17 2012 | Market Research |
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Vidyo is grabbing the headlines this week with the announcement of VideoWay - a free cloud based connectivity service for anyone using H.323 and SIP-based video conferencing endpoints, Lync clients, and mobile devices to connect with each other and/or with Vidyo endpoints. Scheduled to launch this fall, the free service is targeted at users in the...
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| 24 Jul 2012 | Blog post |
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Disappointing Q1 results from market leaders Cisco and Polycom, coupled with a mellowed guidance for Q2, do not bode well for the videoconferencing markets. Revenues nose-dived in Q1 raising the big question - can videoconferencing continue the phenomenal climb it has seen over the last several quarters?
Our recent research indicates that 2011 was...
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| 18 May 2012 | Blog post |
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Emerging Opportunities in Mobile and Desktop Video Change the Market Landscape
The videoconferencing market is fast approaching an inflection point driven by high quality and low-cost solutions combined with an escalating need for rich collaboration. Improved user experiences and expanded use cases are driving adoption. Growing adoption of mobile and desktop video will transform the market landscape and expand the total addressable market. Integration of video into UC clients and social media are providing additional touch points and feeding into the growth of video everywhere. With extensive primary and secondary research, this analysis provides videoconferencing providers and their partners with a detailed analysis of the current and changing dynamics in the fast evolving videoconferencing marketplace.
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| Published: Apr 27 2012 | Market Research |
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Avaya-Radvision acquisition rumors have been flying for months so it was barely a surprise when Avaya finally pulled the trigger and announced this morning that it is buying Radvision for $230 million. Avaya is paying about three times Radvision’s annual sales of $78 million in 2011. We see this as a technology acquisition that was a long time in t...
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| 15 Mar 2012 | Blog post |
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We recently published our 2011 web conferencing research which points at the strong demand and growth potential for web conferencing solutions. Global revenues in the web conferencing market reached $1.5 billion last year, growing at 10.8%. User demand is growing rapidly though revenue growth is starting to slow down due to increasing market maturi...
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| 27 Oct 2011 | Blog post |
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Strong Demand for Collaboration and Declining Prices Lead to Broader Adoption
As users adopt the next generation of communications, collaboration is fast becoming the backbone of enterprise communications. The value proposition of web conferencing solutions today is improving at a fast pace, driven by better user experience, mobility enhancements, and more robust videoconferencing. Furthermore, declining prices are prompting customers to expand deployments and usage of web conferencing. With extensive primary and secondary research, this analysis provides web conferencing services and software providers and their partners with a detailed look at the current and changing dynamics in the fast evolving web conferencing marketplace.
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| Published: Sep 30 2011 | Market Research |
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Early this week I attended Cisco Live and the adjunct CScape analyst event in high energy Vegas. Despite the press surrounding Cisco’s ongoing troubles (http://tinyurl.com/69hcuo7), the tone of the event was positive and the attendance was a record 15,000+ attendees in-person and 40,000+ attending virtually. Cisco’s executive team remains focused a...
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| 16 Jul 2011 | Blog post |
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Yet another major acquisition news came out this morning. Polycom announced that it will acquire HP’s Visual Collaboration Unit including the Halo products and managed services, ending HP’s not so successful venture into the videoconferencing market. The acquisition, which is valued at $89 million, is expected to close on August 1, 2011. According...
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| 01 Jun 2011 | Blog post |
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For the last several days, the rumor mill was abuzz with possibilities of a Skype acquisition. Microsoft’s announcement this morning that it is acquiring Skype for $8.5B in cash seems aggressive and risky from a financial point of view but could be a game changer for communications. This acquisition could make Microsoft a serious contender in the...
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| 10 May 2011 | Blog post |
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This week we published our 2011 videoconferencing endpoints research which points at the huge growth potential for videoconferencing. Global revenues for the videoconferencing and telepresence endpoints market reached $1.7 billion in 2010, growing at a robust 17.8%. The strong market growth in 2010 can largely be attributed to a surge in interest f...
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| 03 May 2011 | Blog post |
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Polycom announced today the addition of six new executives to its management team. These appointments include Joe Burton as SVP and CTO and Sudhakar Ramakrishna as SVP and General Manager Products. Joe Burton comes from Cisco where he served as CTO for Unified Communications. Sudhakar will join Polycom from Motorola where he is Corporate VP and GM...
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| 20 Sep 2010 | Blog post |
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Last week we published the 2010 web conferencing study which points at exciting opportunities in the fast evolving web conferencing space. A veritable explosion of web 2.0 tools and growing need for real time collaboration continues to draw users to web conferencing. As companies look to accelerate team productivity and support better and faster de...
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| 18 Aug 2010 | Blog post |
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Citrix Online announced this week that it is entering the IT Management market with the launch of GoToManage, a SaaS based offering for remotely monitoring, controlling and supporting IT infrastructure. This offering is a direct result of Citrix Online’s acquisition of Menlo Park, California-based Paglo Labs. GoToManage will target Citrix Online’s...
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| 25 Feb 2010 | Blog post |
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To counter the stronger competition it has from the Cisco-Tandberg merger, Polycom has come out with two key announcements in the last one week. The first one is a partnership with Siemens Enterprise Communications which will integrate Polycom's telepresence and high-definition videoconferencing products with OpenScape UC platform as part of a glob...
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| 27 Jan 2010 | Blog post |
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2010 will mark the end of an extraordinary decade that will be remembered for significant leaps in collaboration technologies and extreme challenges that emerged from a globally crippling recession. When it comes to adoption of enterprise video, there are great strides being made – all the way from desktop to telepresence. And we all know mainstrea...
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| 20 Jan 2010 | Blog post |
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