ShoreTel

ShoreTel, Inc., (NASDAQ: SHOR) is the provider of brilliantly simple Unified Communication (UC) solutions based on its award-winning IP business phone system. They offer TICUA member institutions 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 in college and university campus environments.

ShoreTel recently surpassed its ten-thousandth enterprise customer. ShoreTel manufacturers Enterprise IP Telephony Systems and markets them exclusively through highly qualified partners. IDeACOM Networks is the Certified Champion ShoreTel Partner sponsoring the TICUA agreement. As a Certified Champion Partner, IDeACOM has met the rigorous training and certification requirements to provide qualified design, implementation, on-site support and management of ShoreTel solutions. IDeACOM has also maintained a world-class customer satisfaction rating, as measured by a third party, of 98.47 for ShoreTel’s fiscal year ending June 2009. ShoreTel’s Major Accounts Team has joined with IDeACOM to offer maximum support to all TICUA member institutions.

In addition to the discount your institution will enjoy, TICUA will receive a 3% rebate on all ShoreTelTM equipment purchases which will be used to off-set expenses associated with our various member services.

For more information about this agreement, please contact Tim Meehan, CEO of IDeACOM Networks at 615-248-5717.

TICUA consolidates the purchasing power of our 34 private, not-for-profit campuses in Tennessee to provide TICUA members the option of purchasing select products at a discount. To defray administrative costs, TICUA in some cases, may receive a modest amount under agreements made with the companies in the TICUA procurement program.