ShoreTel has entered into a technical partnership with the Williams F1 Team to provide a unified communications and collaboration platform across its enterprise.
The partnership will see ShoreTel become an Official Technical Supplier for the UK-based team from the forthcoming British Grand Prix at Silverstone, at which Williams will be commemorating its 600th Formula One race participation.
Through the partnership, ShoreTel will provide its UC solutions across the full breadth of the Williams organisation, including the Formula One team and Williams Advanced Engineering, as well as integrating communications within the team's on-track activities at races around the world.
ShoreTel's business communications solution will also extend to Williams' Technology Centre in Qatarn.
The technology ShoreTel will provide as part of the contract includes ShoreTel IP-PBX, ShoreTel Mobility client licenses to extend UC applications to mobile devices, Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) handsets, conferencing services, and ShoreTel Enterprise Contact Centre (ECC) with multi-media, providing a complete end-to-end solution whether onsite or remotely.
"This exciting new partnership with the Williams F1 Team," said Adrian Hipkiss, ShoreTel's EMEA vice president and managing director.
"We are joining forces with a company that shares our forward-thinking vision and one that also thrives on delivering state-of-the-art technology. This new partnership allows us to demonstrate our telephony solutions with one of the world's leading engineering companies, whose day-to-day operations, both at the factory and at 19 Formula One races around the world, rely on brilliantly simple unified communications."
Claire Williams, deputy team principal and commercial director at Williams, added: "Williams is a diverse and multi-disciplined engineering business which relies on high quality, mission critical communications, so this new partnership with ShoreTel is one which will benefit not only the Formula One team but every area of our business as we continue to diversify and expand into new areas."