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RingCentral," said Alan Burdine, President and COO of CRI, a Chattanooga, Tenn.-based solution provider and longtime ShoreTel partner. "I think Mitel will get that into a top three position in a much faster time than ShoreTel would have been able to." No Product Disruption Both Mitel and ShoreTel customers can continue to count on the same cloud and on-site solutions they have, with Mitel saying it will provide ongoing service and support for all ShoreTel products throughout their life cycles. Customers and partners will be notified and updated in advance of all product announcements. "Giving those reassurances back to the customer base is a smart play not to disrupt the base and keep everybody in line," said CTP's Rittenhouse. "That's an important factor for us for sure, and our customers are happy to hear that." ShoreTel's International Boost Although it might take some time, ShoreTel partners were bullish about new international opportunities with Mitel. "If you combine their previous acquisition of Aastra – Mitel got a lot of international presence – and one thing that 8x8 has a stronghold in is an international presence. With the ShoreTel acquisition, being able to blend the best of both worlds there, they now have a large international presence where ShoreTel was struggling to get that large foothold before," said CTP's Rittenhouse. "It will take time to develop, but now 8x8 has some serious competition from an international presence point of view." On-Premises Focus Several ShoreTel partners recently met with Mitel top executives to discuss the future. Solution providers said they were relieved to hear Mitel's vision of keeping on-premises a crucial focus of the new company. "This is going help complete some things that ShoreTel was struggling to complete just because of the size of Mitel. [ShoreTel] Connect had been struggling , that is the seamless platform that was consumable in the cloud or purchasable as a premise solution. Unfortunately, ShoreTel focused so much on cloud, cloud, cloud – they sort of forgot about premise. Mitel seems to have a really good balance on what premise opportunity still exist and what cloud opportunity

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Exists," said CRI's Burdine. "So if you ever want to bring it to premise -- you can -- and you can have the same experience. That's something that RingCentral and 8x8 can't do because they don’t offer that. In today's enterprise, we still see that as a viable opportunity and were happy to hear that from Mitel." $1.3 Billion Company The acquisition will give Mitel annual sales of more than $1.31 billion, according to Ottawa, Canada-based Mitel, and will double Mitel's UCass revenue to $263 million. The company is also targeting $60 million in cost synergies by 2019. Channel Synergies Some of the ShoreTel partners who recently met with Mitel said they were impressed by the dedication and focus the executives had on ShoreTel's channel. "We didn't know what was on the Mitel side, but we went and met with Mitel channel leadership in Dallas, we were very impressed with the team, with their vision for the future, with their strategy and the way they're planning on embracing the ShoreTel partner community," said CRI's Burdine. "We're really excited about it. They see the personality of the ShoreTel partner community as very desirable." 3,200 Partners, 4,200 Employees The combined company will have approximately 3,200 channel partners and a broader communications and collaboration product portfolio. Mitel, which will continue to be based in Ottawa, now has a global workforce of approximately 4,200 employees. Strong ShoreTel Product Partners are bullish that the technology synergies between the two vendors will help boost sales. Mitel expects to share the vision for its integrated cloud and applications technologies early in 2018. " Mitel has some advantages on ShoreTel in some of their technology, especially in the contact center space," said CTI's Kaiser. "So I think ShoreTel is going to be able to leverage some of the Mitel technology onto some of the ShoreTel systems -- like endpoints, phones, handsets – so they've got a superior product there being able to bolt-on that contact center to ShoreTel. Those things will make the ShoreTel product stronger." McBee Leading The Way Mitel current CEO McBee will lead the combined