Research and Markets: Computer Fax Markets, 2009-2014 - Production Fax Will Grow By A 13.8% CAGR to $220 Million By 2014

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/372e90/computer_fax_marke) has announced the addition of the "Computer Fax Markets, 2009-2014" report to their offering.

The latest market research report on computer-based fax. The report predicts that the market will grow from $345 million in 2009 to $700 million in 2014, a 15.2 CAGR (compound annual growth rate). This fast growth will be driven by the rise of fax over Internet protocol (FoIP) servers, the emergence of production fax as a key market segment, businesses connecting multifunction peripherals (MFPs) to fax servers, and the rise of unified communications as a key component of the desktop fax phenomenon.

Software-based revenues will lead hardware and maintenance revenues with a 19.1% CAGR. The FoIP market will grow very fast, at a 34.5 CAGR while conventional fax servers will decline at a -7.4% CAGR through 2014. Production fax will grow at only a 13.8% CAGR, but FoIPbased production fax will grow at a 32% CAGR.

For the fax server software itself, the factors that vendors need to watch are led by:

• fax over IP servers, which will be driven by the virtualization of servers, by the fax-enabling of Sharepoint applications, and because FoIP saves businesses money during installation and operation.
• production fax, which grew by at an astounding rate of 57.5% rate during the forecast period from an adjusted $69 million in 2008 to $110 million in 2009, and will grow by a 13.8% CAGR to $220 million by 2014.
• multifunction peripherals (MFPs), where support by fax servers will drive the third most growth in the market, and which will account for 32% of fax server revenues by the end of the forecast period.
• unified messaging, where the rate at which fax is sold with UM systems will nearly double during the forecast period, from 24.2% in 2009 to 42.5% in 2014. By the end of the decade, 70% of the total fax server market will be accounted for by desktop faxing (of which 42.5% will be for unified messaging), whereas 30% will be from production fax. Still, in terms of pages sent, production fax will send more than desktop fax throughout the forecast period.

The 86-page report also profiles 45 fax server vendors and 6 fax board vendors and provides market shares for fax servers, IP fax servers, production fax, regional fax servers, fax boards, fax boards in the US and Europe, and regional fax servers. The report also provides forecasts for 12 different aspects of the computer-based fax industry.

Companies Mentioned:

• ActFax
• Alt-N Technologies
• Axacore
• Cascom
• Cisco
• Cleo
• Copia International
• Data Techniques
• E-copy (Nuance)
• Emfast
• Fenestrae
• Ferrari electronic AG
• GFI
• Hewlett-Packard
• iFax Solutions
• Imecom
• JoyFax Software
• Kofax
• Lane Telecommunications
• Microsoft
• Multi-Tech Systems
• Omtool
• Open Text
• Quadrant
• Ringdale
• RTE
• STR Software
• Tobit
• 2Point Communications
• Visendo

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