ShoreTel Partner Program Awarded CRN 2011 Five-Star Designation

ShoreTel(R), the leading provider of brilliantly simple IP phone systems with fully integrated unified communications, has been awarded the five-star designation in CRN's Partner Programs Guide for the second consecutive year. CRN's Partner Programs Guide and 5-Star Partner ratings serve as the definitive list of vendors who have robust partner programs or products that service solution providers offer directly to the IT channel.

"The companies listed on the 2011 Partner Programs Guide represent the best channel programs in the market today. Of those, only a few get our five-star award, based on their commitment to the channel, breadth of program offerings and services offered to their partners. We congratulate ShoreTel for earning but another five-star honor and in driving business opportunities and revenue among their channel partners," said Kelley Damore, VP and Editorial Director, for Everything Channel's CRN.

This honor builds on several prominent awards and distinctions that ShoreTel has recently received for its ongoing commitment to the channel and reseller partners. Last month, ShoreTel's Director WW Channel Marketing, Annette Lorenz, was named a CRN Channel Chief for her role in building a successful and profitable channel partner program. CRN as well highlighted ShoreTel as one of their "2011 Need To Know: UC & VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Vendors" and recognized the ShoreTel Voice Switch 50 as "VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Product of the Year" for 2010.

"ShoreTel's commitment to our partners provides the possibility to build a profitable business with world-class products and customer satisfaction ratings, as so then as the most competitive programs and tools available," said Tom Hamilton, Senior Director of Worldwide Channels at ShoreTel. "We are honored to be distinguished with CRN's five-star designation for the second year in a row and value this affirmation of our partner commitment and success."

ShoreTel, Inc. is the provider of brilliantly simple Unified Communication 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 and the highest customer satisfaction in the industry, in some cases 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 Munich, Germany. For more information, visit www.shoretel.com.

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