This IDC study presents IDC's 2005 sizing and five-year forecast of the standalone and embedded team collaborative applications (TCA) market in terms of worldwide license and maintenance revenue. Readers of this study will have a better understanding of the market directions within the TCA market including the trend to acquire and deploy TCA products and functionality in conjunction with content management platforms, product information management products, and operating environments such as Microsoft Windows. Specific vendor revenue and market shares are not included in this study and will be published later.

This document updates the forecasts found in Worldwide Team Collaborative Applications 2005-2009 Forecast: Just Scratch the Surface to Find Team Tools (IDC #33105, March 2005).

"Team collaboration is finding various paths to the growing number of users who are looking for contextual and structured collaboration, something that email cannot provide. Content management vendors with standalone and embedded TCA solutions will continue to generate most of the revenue in the TCA market. However, other software led by operating environments will help bring virtual team collaboration to the masses." - Mark Levitt, VP, Collaborative Computing, IDC.