Since I began at ShoreTel, a little over a year ago, I have believed that the company needed a cloud UC offering to complement our on-premise business. Over the past year the management team and I have worked diligently with our board to identify the best entry into this attractive market.  I am excited by [...]

For the second fiscal quarter of 2012, ShoreTel generated record revenues of $58 million, an increase of 22% over the second quarter of fiscal 2011 and an eight percent increase from the previous quarter. Non-GAAP gross margins were 66.1% – down slightly from last quarter, as more of our business moved to two-tier distribution in [...]

Yesterday we reported ShoreTel’s financial results for our first quarter fiscal year 2012 and I wanted to give you an update. ShoreTel generated revenue of $53.9 million, an increase of 22% over the first quarter of fiscal 2011, and in line with our overall revenue guidance of at least 20% for the year. On a [...]

It is great to report that we ended our fiscal year on a high note and that we enter Fiscal 2012 with positive momentum. The investments we have made in our sales channel, product development and branding over the past several quarters have helped us close fiscal 2011 strongly. In the fourth quarter, we recorded [...]

It’s certainly been a busy month. We’ve just begun our Fiscal Year 2012 and last week we had a very successful 2011 Champion Partner Conference. First of all, I want to thank all of you – without our partners, customers and employees, we would not be where we are today. We have been through more [...]

Last Friday, our CEO, Peter Blackmore (intro at 03:10), participated in a panel discussion about “Leadership in the Age of Transparency.” The Churchill Club was interested in hearing the various takes on how company leadership in the Silicon Valley is changing – examining trust and credibility (23:20) in an ever online world.

As ShoreTel continues its drive to eliminate complexity from unified communications, our acquisition of Agito Networks is set to change the way everyone handles mobile communications. ShoreTel is creating a new chapter and changing the rules of the industry by enabling mobile users to communicate anywhere using any network—cellular or WiFi—and by putting the full [...]

The ShoreTel Champion Partners Conference held in San Diego last week, continues to draw kudos and excitement about the company’s plans for the future. For more insight in the latest developments at ShoreTel, download this informative podcast from Unified Communications Strategies now.

As recently as last year, customers were investing large amounts of money in buying new Nortel systems. Now with Avaya taking the reins having bought Nortel out of bankruptcy, Nortel customers are faced with the dilemma of how to salvage some of their investment in their legacy Nortel PBXs without disrupting their communication systems and [...]