The cloud model is entering the telecommunications. As the current study "Communication and Collaboration in the Cloud" by Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) shows, are almost 40 percent of German companies a use of cloud services for communications and collaboration towards positive. Many typical SMEs encounter the cloud model even with skepticism, small businesses and large enterprises, however, are quite receptive.
However, many companies show regardless of size reluctant to refer purely based applications such as e-mail and telephony as a cloud service. In these segments continues to dominate the house operation.
Cloud offerings are yet actively used by only two to five percent of users. Less than a tenth keeps switching to the cloud model within the next two years is likely. The benefits of the cloud are well seen. Thus, many users expect from a cloud-based telephony solution expands the ways the connection of new sites - a nuclear problem of conventional plants.
