Market Research

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

Fax Messaging Markets, 2007-2012:   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. The report also delves into key issues including patent law, for which the situation has changed radically and is in flux. j2 continues to lead the industry and dominates the North American portion of the individual Internet fax market, holding an approximately two-thirds share. Protus is nonetheless the fastest growing player in the marketplace. The report finds that the fax services industry will experience growth rates that have diminished, due primarily to the economic downturn. The industry is expected to return to higher growth rates at the end of the forecast period, although not as high as the 25% growth rates it had earlier in the 2000s. The overall fax service industry will increase from $925 million in 2007 to $1.665 billion in 2012, a 12.5% compound annual growth rate (CAGR). Published in July, 2008. The price is $3,500.
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Computer-Based Fax Markets, 2008-2013:  Davidson Consulting has published a new report, Computer-Based Fax Markets, 2008-2013, which predicts that overall fax server revenues will show an increase of 10.5% CAGR to $470 million in 2013. This growth will be primarily the result of the FoIP market, which will gain primacy in 2009 as the market sells $145 million in FoIP servers and just $130 million in conventional fax servers. The quick rise by FoIP servers will be the result of the economic malaise, which will cause many enterprises and (VoIP) service providers to change to FoIP in order to cut costs.

Another major trend will be the linking of multifunction peripherals (MFPs) to fax servers, a trend that will account for nearly half of all fax server software revenues by 2013. Hooking MFPs to fax servers will become a crucial aspect of the fax server industry. Also, VoIP service providers will turn to FoIP to T.38-enable the long-haul portions of their networks (SIP trunks) so they can solve the problem of many of their VoIP customers whose fax machines are “broken” by installing VoIP lines.

The 93-page report also profiles 38 fax server vendors and 8 fax board vendors and provides market shares for fax servers, IP fax servers, roduction 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 email at peter@davidsonconsulting.biz.

FoIP Server Markets, 2007-2013: Davidson Consulting has a new report on the market for FoIP servers that predicts the market will grow rather rapidly during the five-year forecast period, despite an economy mired in recession. FoIP servers will grow at an 19.6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR). The FoIP server software category will also grow at an 19.6% CAGR from $51 million in 2007 to $125 million in 2012 and the FoIP hardware category will grow at a 19.1% CAGR from $9.2 million in 2007 to $22 million in 2012.

Boardless FoIP servers will grow as fast as boarded FoIP servers as they will both have a CAGR of 19.8%. The only reason that boarded FoIP servers will grow as fast as boardless solutions is that the production fax market will grow and will take advantage of boarded solutions more than boardless. Otherwise, boardless solutions would grow faster than boarded.

The FoIP server market will be driven to a great extent by sales relating to MFPs, as businesses move to add fax server capabilities to their systems to automate processes, comply with regulations, and to conserve paper and energy for environmental reasons. This trend will impact the FoIP server business far more than the conventional fax server business, largely because vendors mostly have MFP solutions that are tied to using FoIP. Open Text, Sagem Communications, Biscom, MESSAGEmanager and FaxCore will all be selling FoIP solutions for users with MFPs. The market for FoIP servers with MFPs will grow from $38 million in 2007 to $69 million in 2012, a CAGR of 12.7.

All in all, the FoIP markets will grow impressively despite the global macroeconomic challenges.

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 email at 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.