The State of Business Email 2025: Infrastructure, risk and IT’s next opportunity

Explore insights from 4,000+ IT leaders on why email remains essential in 2025. Discover where risks lie, what’s draining IT capacity, and how to modernize email infrastructure with AI and automation.

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In 2025, email remains the system of record for critical business communication—trusted for everything from legal notices and client conversations to internal alerts and executive updates. While real-time messaging and collaboration platforms are expanding the stack, businesses still send it by email when the message matters.

This year’s State of Business Email report, based on insights from 4,009 IT leaders across the UK, US, Germany, and Australia, reveals a clear pattern: IT is being asked to secure, automate, and modernize the most targeted and visible part of the digital infrastructure—often without the tools, support, or ownership to do it effectively.

The report dives into five key areas

  • Why email still dominates high-trust communication 

  • Where security and compliance protections are falling short 

  • How manual processes—from spam filtering to signature updates—are consuming IT’s time 

  • Why integration is lagging, and what it’s costing teams 

  • What AI, automation, and evolving expectations mean for the future of email 

Download the report now to see where email stands today, how it’s evolving, and what IT needs to do next to reduce risk, improve control, and reclaim capacity.

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Key insights

Email still dominates communication


  • 89% of IT leaders rank one-to-one email as "important", slightly ahead of collaboration tools (86%), and on par with instant messaging (IM) and video conferencing platforms.

  • Email remains the go-to for client communication, internal updates, and IT and security alerts, where reliability and auditability matter most. 

“Security and compliance pressures don’t stop at the inbox—but email remains one of the most targeted, exposed, and under-managed parts of the stack. The insight here should inform how IT leaders prioritize the next wave of controls.”

— Karl Bagci, Head of Information Security, Exclaimer 

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