Maidenhead: Comms company teams up with Williams F1
ShoreTel, the leading provider of unified communications platforms including business phone systems, applications and mobile unified communications solutions, has announced a technical partnership with the Williams F1 Team, based at Grove, near Wantage, to provide a unified communications and collaboration platform across its enterprise.
The partnership saw ShoreTel become an official technical supplier for the UK-based team from the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, at which Williams commemorated its 600th Formula One race participation.
Through the partnership, ShoreTel will provide its industry-leading unified communications 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 Qatar, ensuring a truly international collaboration.
“This exciting new partnership with the Williams F1 Team positions ShoreTel at the cutting edge of technology in an increasingly relevant international market,” 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 award-winning 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.”
“I am pleased to welcome ShoreTel as Official Technical Supplier of the team in what promises to be a rewarding relationship for both parties,” said Claire Williams, deputy team principal and commercial director at Williams. “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.”
