SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - March 24, 2009) - ShoreTel® (
NASDAQ:
SHOR), a leading
provider of Pure IP Unified Communications (UC) solutions, today announced
it will host a partner pavilion in Booth 917 at VoiceCon Orlando 2009 to
showcase its growing number of ShoreTel-certified UC solutions providers,
who are taking advantage of ShoreTel's open platform. ShoreTel technology
partners design innovative applications that integrate fully with the
ShoreTel UC system, offering customers a wide range of productivity and
efficiency enhancing benefits from proven UC technology.
ShoreTel's open platform and growing customer base have resulted in a
dramatic rise in the popularity of the technology partner program, and
increasing demand from customers for integrated UC applications. ShoreTel
recently introduced two new program levels, in addition to the original
ShoreTel Certified level -- Partner Proven and Customer Proven. These
levels are designed to help organizations identify the best solution to
meet their needs. Recent additions at both the Partner Proven and Customer
Proven levels include ADTRAN, Brocade, EtherSpeak, Incendonet, Liquid Labs
and Telrex.
As organizations increasingly turn to integrated solutions to boost
productivity and reduce costs, the ShoreTel Technology Partner Program has
attracted dozens of new solution developers in the past six months, with
seven solutions recertified for ShoreTel's open and flexible platform.
ShoreTel's extensive network of certified technology partners means
customers have access to a wide range of UC applications that support
ShoreTel's open APIs, including innovative solutions, such as emergency
notification, voicemail to text, employee mobility and cost savings through
SIP trunking.
"We believe it's important to go above and beyond interoperability testing
in a lab environment, and show organizations that our VoIP networking
solutions have successfully complemented the ShoreTel UC system in actual
customer deployments," said ADTRAN Senior Product Manager, Todd Lattanzi.
"ADTRAN and ShoreTel invest significantly with our partners around the
world to ensure high customer satisfaction and work jointly to ensure our
solutions meet the requirements of our customers, regardless of location or
vertical."
The following companies are demonstrating products in the ShoreTel partner
pavilion at VoiceCon: ADTRAN, presenting VoIP connectivity and networking
solutions; Comdasys, showing fixed mobile convergence solutions for VoIP;
EtherSpeak, demonstrating native SIP trunking for ShoreTel; Extricom, with
enterprise-grade wireless LAN solutions; Ingate, showing secure network
gateways for VoIP solutions; Liquid Labs, with customer-proven call
recording solutions; Polycom, presenting SIP conferencing and mobility
solutions; and Syntellect, showing contact center solutions.
ShoreTel has received world-class customer satisfaction ratings from
customers for 14 quarters in a row, and is constantly seeking to align
itself with partners that share the same commitment to product excellence
and outstanding customer satisfaction.
"The flexibility of ShoreTel's unique distributed architecture allows us to
create an ecosystem with our technology partners where the combined whole
product solution enhances and extends the ease of use, productivity and
customer satisfaction of the ShoreTel system," said Kevin Gavin, vice
president of marketing at ShoreTel. "ShoreTel's open platform continues to
attract technology partners who recognize the market potential for
easy-to-use solutions that integrate communications with business
processes."
At VoiceCon Orlando 2009, ShoreTel will preview several exciting new
features in its award-winning UC system in Booth 909. These demonstrations
include innovative solutions for improving employee mobility, managing
presence, increasing call center performance, ensuring security, reducing
costs, and integrating communications with business processes. In addition,
ShoreTel experts will present on a number of compelling UC topics affecting
businesses today:
Monday March 30, 9:00a.m. - 12:00 p.m. in Osceloa B
IP Telephony System RFP: Who Delivers the Goods
with Jeff Ridley, Director of Product Management
Monday, March 30, 2009, 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. in Sun A
UC Tutorial with Jeff Ridley, Director of Product Management
Wednesday, April 1, 2:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. in Room 1
Leading Edge-ucation: Migration Strategies from Legacy PBXs to
Unified Communications Solutions with Rob Blanton, Sr. Sales Engineer
Wednesday, April 1, 2:30 - 3:45 p.m. in Sun A
Leveraging VOIP for UC with Kevin Gavin - VP of Marketing
Wednesday, April 1, 2:30 - 3:45 p.m. in Sun D
Hardphones, Softphones and Next-Gen Systems with Bernard Gutnick -
Sr. Director Product Marketing
Thurs, Apr 2, 11:30 am - 12:30 p.m. in Osceola C
User Forum with ShoreTel Customer Speaker: Robert Butler from The Hay Group
About ShoreTel
ShoreTel, Inc., (
NASDAQ:
SHOR) is a leading provider of Pure IP unified
communications systems. ShoreTel enables companies of any size to
seamlessly integrate all communications-voice, data, messaging-with their
business processes. Independent of device or location, ShoreTel's
distributed software architecture eliminates the traditional costs,
complexity and reliability issues typically associated with other
solutions. ShoreTel continues to deliver the highest levels of customer
satisfaction, ease of use and manageability while driving down the overall
total cost of ownership. ShoreTel is headquartered in Sunnyvale,
California, and has regional offices in the United Kingdom, Sydney,
Australia and Munich, Germany. For more information, visit
www.shoretel.com
or call 1-877-80SHORE.
Contact Information: Press Contact:
Rachel Shelton
Eastwick Communications
Tel: +650-480-4069
rshelton@eastwick.com