Press Releases

ShoreTel Inc. (NASDAQ: SHOR), the leading provider of brilliantly simple IP phone systems with fully integrated unified communications, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire M5 Networks, a recognized leader in hosted Unified Communications.

M5 Networks (www.m5.net), the market leader in cloud communications for business, today announced the creation of the M5 People Team, a group dedicated to creating a winning workplace for M5’s valued staff of over 200. Focused on employee engagement, the M5 People Team, led by Chief Learning Officer Heather Bennett, will use fun and creative ways to foster a work culture that supports its staff to help them meet their personal and professional goals.

M5 Networks, a market leader in cloud communications for business, announced today it achieved several key milestones in 2011 and is well positioned for continued growth in 2012. Achievements included; a 57% growth in bookings over 2010 and the acquisition of 543 new client companies. Milestone product releases and executive team expansion contributed to the company’s success.

Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute New York, NY (December 13, 2011) — M5 Networks, a market leader in cloud communications for business, announced today it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the “Visionaries” quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service.  Gartner, the world’s leading information [...]

Enhances Product Suite for Sales Effectiveness New York, NY (December 6, 2011) — M5 Networks, the market leader in cloud communications for business, announced today the release of M5 Connect for Salesforce version 4.0.  M5 Connect for Salesforce.com is part of M5’s family of products for sales productivity and effectiveness.  The new version introduces support [...]

M5 Networks, the market leader in cloud-based business phone systems, today announced the availability of the SiriusDecisions ‘M5 Networks Vendor Profile’ in their Sales Effectiveness category.

The profile provides an overview of M5’s value to sales and marketing organizations and focuses on the challenge of directly integrating data captured though phone systems with a customer relationship management (CRM) application.

M5 Networks, the market leader in business phone systems, minimized voice communication disruption to client National Holdings Corporation’s business resulting from a two-alarm fire the evening of Friday, October 21, 2011, at the downtown Manhattan office building housing its offices.

M5 announced today the launch of M5 Labs, a technology preview opportunity for clients. Products and features in varying stages of development will be made available from time to time. Some will be very near release and others will be ideas that may never make it to production. These technologies will be available to M5 customers at no charge during the Labs period.

M5 Networks, the market leader in business phone systems, today announced the launch of Live Answer Service Metric, part of M5’s Intelligence package, giving business clients access to actionable intelligence about call-answer rates at their businesses. With the Live Answer Service Metric, M5 clients will be able to determine the exact number of calls that reach an employee, regardless of which line the customer calls or how many auto-attendants are used to direct the call.

M5 Networks, the market leader in business phone systems, announced today the launch of the M5 Softphone, software that lets users manage their telephone calls over the M5 network from a PC, rather than a traditional handset.