Market Research

Davidson Consulting has already published scores of
fax-related reports.  These are the most recent:

Fax Messaging Markets, 2006-2010:   This report covers
internet faxing, broadcast faxing, and production faxing as
outsource services. The report covers market growth in
revenues and also shows Internet fax subscribers.  Internet fax
is covered in terms of both enterprise and individual market
segments. This report finds that the fax services industry will
experience strong growth, for the most part, throughout the
forecast period.  The overall fax service industry will increase
from $770 million in 2005 to $1.64 billion in 2010, a 16.8%
compound annual growth rate (CAGR).  Published in July, 2007.

Computer-Based Fax Markets, 2005-2010:  Davidson Consulting has published its latest market research report on computer-based fax. The report predicts that the fax server industry will grow from $280 million in 2006 to $510 million
in 2011, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.7%. This whopping growth will be primarily a result of the replacement market for fax boards that will emerge in the forecast
period.

Fax boards will be replaced due to a reality in the server market. That is, many fax boards previously installed were PCI boards but new servers that businesses are installing don’t have PCI slots, but only PCIe slots. Nearly the entire installed base of PC servers is expected to turn over during the forecast period, so all those businesses will have to replace their fax boards.

The market will also grow because IP fax servers will grow throughout the forecast period, gaining primacy in the market in 2009. Davidson Consulting found that the FoIP market grew from $31.5 million in 2005 to $65 million in 2006, a growth rate of 111.1%.

Another major trend will be the linking of multifunction peripherals (MFPs) to fax servers, a trend that will account for between 30% and 40% of all fax server software revenues during the forecast period. Hooking MFPs to fax servers will become a crucial aspect of the fax server
industry.

Unified messaging will become a factor that increasingly puts pressure on fax server vendors. Microsoft, having entered the space, will cause unified messaging sales to increase, and they will take an increasingly higher percentage of seats from desktop fax servers. The biggest threat from Microsoft’s entry in unified messaging is that the company could acquire fax technology from a fax server company, then place it in its unified messaging operating system, thereby cutting all other fax server vendors off from the market for desktop servers.

The 95-page report also profiles 38 fax server vendors and 8 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.

The report is available from Davidson Consulting for $3,500 and is payable by check with a purchase order or by Visa, MasterCard or Amex. Davidson Consulting can be reached at 269-651-3157 or by emailing to peter@davidsonconsulting.biz.

Fax Machines -- 2001-2006: This report covers the worldwide
market for fax machines and fax-based multifunctionals.  
Machines are forecast for every major country and all continents
by laser, ink-jet, thermal transfer and thermal units, and market
shares for each country and distribution by country.  There are
also worldwide forecasts for 33.6 Kbs. machines, for
multifunctional versus standalone products and for Internet fax
machines.  Published in June, 2002.