Huddle ~ Work Better Together

A Kind of Magic – quadrant magic

Big news. Huddle.net was named in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Social Software this month. The Gartner Magic Quadrant, for those who don’t know, is a tool designed to provide an unbiased qualitative analysis of markets’ direction, maturity and participants. It’s a serious benchmark for any enterprise buyers.

Huddle operates in the team collaboration and web conference market, as well as the social software sub-segment. The worldwide web conference and team collaboration software market revenue is on pace to reach $2 billion in 2008, that’s $500.3 million in EMEA alone.

But no technology is ‘recession proof’, IDC says. They expect many organisations to freeze IT-related projects. The good news is that these organisations will recognise that much more could be achieved with Web/Enterprise 2.0 technologies. IDC calls it a ‘bail out’ for enterprise collaboration, we call it common sense. Repeat after me: Yes, we can!

Because we cannot show you the real one…