More than half of ShoreTel's partners in the United States are offering cloud services just one year after cloud tiers were added to the vendor's Champion Partner Program.
"More than 40 per cent of our US partners carrying our on-premises solutions have added ShoreTel Sky to their business, and many more are joining every day.
"This uptake shows our partner community's strong desire to participate in the growing cloud segment, which we've supported with education and training initiatives," said David Petts, senior vice president of worldwide sales at ShoreTel.
Andrew Gray, Marketing Director, EMEA, added: "Cloud adoption is growing strongly in the UK and we feel the time is now right for us to launch our cloud proposition.
"Many of our partners are strong competitors in the managed service and cloud market and we've been working with them to define precisely what service they require from us.
"The platform we've built utilises all we have learnt from being innovators and market leaders in the US, and is refined to meet the UK channel's requirements around flexibility, billing, integration and most importantly, the ability to create hybrid solutions.
"We will be making announcements regarding our launch at our Partner Conference in April."