Alpheon Corporation Receives ShoreTel’s Certified Champion Partner Program Status

Alpheon Corporation announced today that they have been awarded ShoreTel’s Certified Champion Partner status, recognizing Alpheon Corporation as a value-added solution provider of enterprise communication solutions. ShoreTel, Inc. (NASDAQ: SHOR), a leading provider of Pure IP Unified Communications (UC) solutions, has designed the Champion Partner Program to strengthen the relationship between ShoreTel and its partners, advancing and growing both companies’ market share in the unified communications industry, while ensuring every customer continues to be delighted with their ShoreTel experience.

“We’re pleased to welcome value-added partners into the Champion Partner Program – especially those that have made the commitment to sales and technical training, infrastructure development and focus on customer service in delivering our innovative products and leading business solutions,” said Tom Hamilton, senior director of worldwide channel marketing at ShoreTel. “In this case, the achievement of Certified Champion Partner status is based on Alpheon Corporation’s value-add solution sales and delivery, of ShoreTel Unified Communications systems.

“As a ShoreTel partner for over five years, we have watched the evolution of a solid product company become a telecommunications industry leader.  The ShoreTel platform continues to add value for our customers that seek reliable telephony solutions based on new technology, not obsolete systems,” said Greg Donovan, President and CEO of Alpheon Corporation. “Since 2004, we standardized on ShoreTel as our preferred VoIP telephone solution because of the ease of use, administration and low cost of support.  Customers have rapidly adopted and realize the benefits of using a world-class IP Unified Communications platform.”

Since ShoreTel’s first product shipment in 1998, customer satisfaction has been at the core of ShoreTel’s top business priorities, and is a requirement for the primary business values for all ShoreTel partners. Customers who purchase ShoreTel solutions rank their product above other manufacturers for technology, ease of use, management, customer service, solution experience, product features and performance. Alpheon Corporation satisfied customers like Raleigh Medical Group and S&ME have contributed to ShoreTel’s ranking as Best Overall VoIP telephony vendor among end-users for the past five years in a row, according to industry analyst firm Nemertes Research.

ShoreTel, Inc., (NASDAQ: SHOR) is a leading provider of Pure IP Unified Communications solutions. ShoreTel enables companies of any size to seamlessly integrate all communications – voice, video, messaging and data – 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.