The market for collaborative applications is expected to grow to 63.8 billion dollars by 2026. This is stated by International Data Corporation (IDC), which in its report “Worldwide Collaborative Applications Forecast, 2022–2026: Adoption Creates the Collaboration Stack” provides a five‑year projection of revenues for collaborative tools. collaboration tools worldwide, including analyses by geographic area and type of implementation.

Global revenues from collaborative applications rose by 28.4%, reaching 29.1 billion dollars: this marks the fifth consecutive year of double‑digit growth. According to IDC, turnover is set to rise further, driven by the development of new corporate performance metrics.

AGMultivision is focused on designing solutions that can address specific business needs, also leveraging the products offered by its partners, in order to make enterprise workflows agile and smart.

What this article is about:

1. Digital collaboration: rapidly evolving technologies
2. AGMultivision‑branded solutions

1. Digital Collaboration: rapidly evolving technologies

According to the analysis “Worldwide Collaborative Applications Forecast, 2022–2026: Adoption Creates the Collaboration Stack,” global revenues from collaboration applications grew by 28.4% year‑on‑year in 2021, reaching 29.1 billion dollars: this marks the fifth consecutive year of double‑digit growth, according to IDC. The trend was driven by several factors, including companies extending collaboration to more users and purchasing and integrating multiple solutions to better meet business needs. Growth has spread across all collaboration markets and submarkets identified by IDC, including team collaboration tools, conferencing, virtual events, enterprise communities and email applications.

The tailwinds behind the market are clear: collaborative applications enable people to work from anywhere, create a more productive and inclusive workplace community and are essential to a company’s digital transformation. In addition, the growth of more connected frontline workers—as well as all other types of workers—will continue throughout the forecast period.

Expectation and adoption of these applications, both inside and outside the workplace, are now a given. In the coming years, collaboration platforms will become more engaging, visual, functional and community‑driven. These features, boosted by intelligence, will evolve rapidly and support working from anywhere. A new set of metrics will also emerge, linking activities directly to the customer.

Precisely on the basis of these new metrics and companies’ needs, AGMultivision studies and designs the solutions that best adapt to information sharing, for example.

Adequate meeting rooms and professional conference‑call systems are just some of the most‑requested operational tools from companies, even in the post‑pandemic era.

The number of partners and customers who today want to collaborate on individual activities is significant and continues to grow. For AGMultivision it is important to consider that digital events will increasingly represent an opportunity to engage an audience that may not be able to travel, for example, to key in‑person events.

Moreover, a fully connected company, enhanced with collaboration and intelligence, is set to become increasingly smart.

2. AGMultivision‑branded solutions

Any organization—whether corporate, public administration or university—can therefore no longer ignore the need to equip its workspaces and employees with enabling technologies for digital information sharing and digital collaboration with stakeholders, both in person and remotely, according to hybrid‑work practices.

What are the main challenges that companies face when they need to make an investment?

- Compatibility with existing hardware and software systems

- Infrastructure adaptation of collaborative work environments (meeting rooms, shared workspaces, etc.).

- Integration of purchased components and ease of use for end users

- Flexibility in the use of technologies so they can be moved easily and quickly from one space to another, i.e. turning a traditional meeting room (table and chairs) into a digital‑work environment in a short amount of time.

- Cost calculation of the investment by type of space

AGMultivision develops an interesting proposal to respond to these needs, offering a range of bundles composed of products designed to meet digital collaboration requirements, depending on the size and number of participants in a professional environment used for meetings or training.

With the Bundle solution, a multinational with several meeting rooms can immediately calculate the cost per participant for each type of room, and a small company will avoid wasting time and effort choosing proposals with different components, without the assurance that they will integrate seamlessly and functionally.

AGMultivision offers a range of different Bundles, each targeting a typical room size with a corresponding typical capacity in terms of number of participants.

As AGMultivision, we have already had the opportunity to explore our partners’ proposals and fully understand the development opportunities for 2023 during ISE, where the theme of work was central: the introduction of post‑pandemic smart working and video collaboration are phenomena growing exponentially in the number of users engaged daily in meetings, and have contributed to the rising demand for increasingly efficient unified communication devices.

And our industry, both in the design and in the actual implementation of solutions, is at the forefront of this change.

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