ShoreTel Names Ingram Micro Value Added Distribution Partner
October 18 2011 - 8:00AM
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Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) and ShoreTel Inc. (NASDAQ: SHOR) today
announced a new U.S. distribution relationship that includes the
full portfolio of ShoreTel unified communications (UC) products and
tools, including the latest version of ShoreTel Mobility, a
smartphone integration solution that simply and intelligently
integrates smartphones and tablets with most major IP PBX systems
and UC systems.
"UC solutions represent a high-growth, high-margin sales and
service opportunity for our channel partners and a growing IT
solutions category for Ingram Micro," says Paul Bay, executive vice
president, Ingram Micro North America. "The expertise and
enablement within Ingram Micro's Advanced Technology Division will
bring tremendous business and technical value to our mutual
partners and assist ShoreTel in reaching its growth goals."
ShoreTel's UC solutions are based on their brilliantly simple IP
phone system, which allows businesses to trade the expected
complexity of UC solutions for plug-and-play simplicity that
delivers integrated voice, video, data, and mobile communication
solutions for businesses of all sizes.
"ShoreTel is committed to providing comprehensive communications
solutions that eliminate complexity and help reduce costs. Demand
is high for an affordable, scalable business solution that is easy
to deploy and will support an increasingly mobile workforce," said
Don Girskis, senior vice president of worldwide sales, ShoreTel.
"By teaming with Ingram Micro and leveraging its Advanced
Technology Division, we are empowering our partners to easily
implement the brilliantly simple ShoreTel solution, which gives
customers more time to focus on their business at hand."
Making Mutual Investments in Partner
Enablement As part of the new value-added distribution
relationship, Ingram Micro and ShoreTel are co-investing in
dedicated technical support staff, market development managers, and
cross-trained sales engineers.
In addition, Ingram Micro's Advanced Technology Division will
offer targeted sales, technical and business development training
and education. These collaborative, business-building resources are
designed to help channel partners establish and grow a successful
ShoreTel business and generate greater sales and service
opportunities around UC solutions.
"We're pleased with the new relationship between ShoreTel and
Ingram Micro, as it enhances our route to market for customers,"
said Bob Plessett, Principal at Teleswitch. "ShoreTel and Ingram
Micro share a philosophy to bring innovative solutions to market
that provide an easier and more profitable way for channel partners
to deploy and manage."
Solution providers interested in becoming a ShoreTel reseller,
please contact your local Ingram Micro sales representative.
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About ShoreTel ShoreTel, Inc. (NASDAQ:
SHOR) is the provider of brilliantly simple Unified Communication
(UC) solutions based on its award-winning IP business phone system.
We offer organizations of all sizes integrated, voice, video, data,
and mobile communications on an open, distributed IP architecture
that helps significantly reduce the complexity and costs typically
associated with other solutions. The feature-rich ShoreTel UC
system offers the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) and the
highest customer satisfaction in the industry, in part because it
is easy to deploy, manage, scale and use. Increasingly, companies
around the world are finding a competitive edge by replacing
business-as-usual with new thinking, and choosing ShoreTel to
handle their integrated business communication. ShoreTel is based
in Sunnyvale, California, and has regional offices in Austin,
Texas; United Kingdom; Sydney, Australia; and Singapore. For more
information, visit www.shoretel.com.
About Ingram Micro Inc. As a vital link in
the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and
profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through
unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics, technical and
financial support, managed and cloud-based services, and product
aggregation and distribution. The company is the only global
broad-based IT distributor, serving more than 150 countries on six
continents with the world's most comprehensive portfolio of IT
products and services. Visit www.ingrammicro.com.
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Press Contacts: Marie Rourke WhiteFox Marketing (for
Ingram Micro) (714) 292-2199 Email Contact Jessica Ravenna Edelman
(for ShoreTel) (650) 762-2920 Email Contact
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