{"id":2191,"date":"2012-06-19T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/?guid=9b653c68cc0baac31f5be34977ac80c8"},"modified":"2012-06-19T15:11:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T15:11:00","slug":"shoretels-cloud-division-announces-unified-communications-for-ios-android-blackberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/shoretels-cloud-division-announces-unified-communications-for-ios-android-blackberry\/","title":{"rendered":"ShoreTels Cloud Division Announces Unified Communications for iOS, Android, Blackberry"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/product\/iphone\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured alignleft\" title=\"Image representing iPhone as depicted in Crunc...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/assets\/images\/resized\/0001\/9797\/19797v1-max-250x250.jpg\" alt=\"Image representing iPhone as depicted in Crunc...\" width=\"250\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>ShoreTel today announced the release of ShoreTel Mobility for customers of ShoreTel\u2019s M5 cloud division. The solution extends the voice and unified communications (UC) applications businesses love to the smartphone. The initial launch will support iPhones and subsequent releases over the summer will add support for other smartphone and tablet devices including Android and Blackberry. Users are able to leverage a single converged device for both business and personal communications, and access deskphone and UC capabilities on their iPhone without having to learn a new interface. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>In addition to offering users a dual persona, ensuring easy separation of personal and business identities on a single mobile device, ShoreTel Mobility automatically and securely selects the best available network \u2013 Wi-Fi or cellular \u2013 without any action by the user. The solution is available to ShoreTel\u2019s Cloud Division clients for a monthly fee per user.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m really looking forward to getting my hands on the ShoreTel Mobility application. I&#8217;ve been wanting this for 4 years now and I&#8217;m glad that M5, as part of ShoreTel, will be one of the first in the market. I have no doubt that true corporate mobility will improve productivity for our remote and traveling employees,\u201d said Derek Stewart, Finance and Operations manager at Foursquare.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-10705\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way people work has changed. Instead of fighting the trends of mobility and bring-your- own-device, we are empowering our clients to embrace them by extending our cloud phone system capabilities to the device that users love the most \u2013 their own,\u201d said Dan Hoffman, ShoreTel Cloud Division President. \u201cThe solution represents a win-win, giving our customers the ease of using the device that is already in their pocket and giving the enterprise a way to reduce costs, while maintaining a consistent corporate identity and caller experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Users enjoy the following benefits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\"><strong>Identity<\/strong> \u2013 Business calls to and from any ShoreTel Mobility<br \/>\nuser are made using their business phone number, not their personal<br \/>\nmobile number. This means corporate identity is maintained and the<br \/>\ncompany, not the employee, owns the contact relationship. Employees no<br \/>\nlonger need to reveal personal mobile phone numbers and can instantly<br \/>\ntell if an incoming call to the mobile device is personal or work<br \/>\nrelated.<\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\"><strong>Convenience<\/strong> \u2013 Users can leverage all of the benefits of the M5<br \/>\ncloud business-phone system that they enjoy when using a deskphone<br \/>\nincluding: transferring calls to other employees and utilizing<br \/>\nfour-digit dialing. Coaching tools such as barge and whisper are<br \/>\navailable to management.<\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\"><strong>Metrics<\/strong> \u2013 Mobile calls are no longer omitted from the phone<br \/>\nsystem\u2019s business intelligence. Records for business calls made to and<br \/>\nfrom the mobile device are included along with deskphone calls, giving<br \/>\nmanagement true visibility into employee performance and the health of<br \/>\nthe business.<\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\"><strong>Network Flexibility<\/strong> &#8211; ShoreTel Mobility can significantly<br \/>\nreduce direct dial and international roaming charges on the smartphone<br \/>\nby utilizing software that switches networks automatically,<br \/>\nintelligently and securely between wireless and cellular for the best<br \/>\navailable coverage at any given moment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information about <a href=\"http:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http:\/\/www.m5.net\/products\/unified-communications\/m5-mobility\/&amp;esheet=50315349&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=ShoreTel+Mobility+in+the+cloud&amp;index=5&amp;md5=46638b4bed737a3539666e9dd840b203\">ShoreTel Mobility in the cloud<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http:\/\/www.m5.net\/products\/unified-communication\/&amp;esheet=50315349&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=M5+Unified+Communications+Suite&amp;index=6&amp;md5=1c028c43f99b64d564967d0c91cf2f37\">M5 Unified Communications Suite<\/a>, or other products, please visit www.m5.net.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=080372eb-4665-45ef-8a05-9da8d3ca1a0e\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/mN0R5DZvR_iGTpC1-pbRAorFqtU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/mN0R5DZvR_iGTpC1-pbRAorFqtU\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/mN0R5DZvR_iGTpC1-pbRAorFqtU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/mN0R5DZvR_iGTpC1-pbRAorFqtU\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CloudNewsDaily\/~4\/c6BJCJa3Azw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Integration with ShoreTel Mobility extends business voice and unified        communications applications to smartphones     SUNNYVALE, Calif.&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;ShoreTel&#xae;        (NASDAQ:SHOR), the leading provider of brilliantly simple pre&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,261,140,281,531,283,194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blackberry","category-iphone","category-mobile","category-shoretel","category-telecommunications","category-unified-communications","category-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}