Wainhouse Research

The visual communications coverage at Wainhouse Research includes a wide variety of consulting and research services to vendors, channel partners, and end users.  WR analysts publish numerous reports, research briefs, white papers, and product / service comparison matrices covering a range of technology, product, and market issues affecting the industry and its customers.

Areas of Coverage

Enterprise videoconferencing products and services including:
- Videoconferencing endpoints (group and personal)
- Videoconferencing infrastructure products (MCUs, gateways, scheduling
  systems, etc.)
- Videoconferencing managed service offerings
- Fully integrated telepresence systems / studios

Enterprise streaming solutions including:
- Streaming product offerings
- Hosted (webcasting) service offerings
- Rich media content distribution systems / services

Audio-visual products, services, and systems
Market Intelligence

The Visual Communications Program (VCP) is a subscription service offered by the Visual Communications Practice at Wainhouse Research. Designed for manufacturers, channel partners, service providers, end-users, financial analysts, consultants, and other interested parties, the VCP subscription service provides ALL subscriber employees with exclusive, 24x7 access to ALL of WR’s content in the areas of coverage detailed below.

To order now, download the VCP subscription order form

Videoconferencing Coverage
- Research Notes
- Company Profiles
- Product and service comparison matrices
- SpotCheck quarterly market statistics
- Annual five-year industry forecast
- End user survey reports
- Channel partner survey reports
- Telepresence coverage
- Market segment reports
- White papers

Streaming / Webcasting Coverage (new in 2009)
- Research Notes
- Company Profiles
- Product and service comparison matrices
- Annual market size statistics
- Annual five-year industry forecast
- Annual survey reports

Audio Visual Coverage (new in 2010)
- Research Notes
- Company Profiles
- Product and service comparison matrices
- White papers

As of 1-Jan-2010, the VCP database contained over 200 documents available to subscribers only. We invite you to visit the VCP content delivery web site, or, to order now, download the VCP subscription order form.

Several of the research studies that are included in the VCP Program are also available for purchase as individual reports (order below).

Consulting Services for Industry Participants

Business development and channel partner strategies Product and marketing concept evaluations White paper research, writing, and publishing Competitive analysis Customer surveys Guest speaking services (presentations at sales kickoffs, customer seminars)
Consulting Services for End User Customers

Global visual communication strategies / conferencing technology roadmaps Needs assessment support services Research into products, services, and potential partners Vendor and product evaluations RFI and RFP preparation and response evaluations

Sr. Partner and Analyst: Andrew Davis
Sr. Partner and Analyst: Ira Weinstein
Senior Researcher: David Maldow
Research Assistant: Kristin Priest
Client Account Manager: Dana Benson
Client Account Manager: Sara Fargo