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Ideacom Midwest chooses Iwatsu to round out our portfolio of voice products.  Iwatsu’s ECS brings a great compliment of both the digital telecom world and VoIP world to customers that have a need for choice in the implementation of a new telephone system.  The ECS also brings us a very tight integration with Microsoft Outlook to give our customers a great user experience. The combination of design flexibility, tight integrations and a  very affordable price point will make this choice a winner for our Ideacom Midwest customers.

Ideacom Midwest is proud to announce the addition of LifeSize® as our partner for High Definition Video Solutions. LifeSize® provides top quality, advanced video communications solutions. Each system is designed to make video communication a highly productive, simple to use, reliable and stunning video and audio experience. LifeSize® ignites a new High definition fire with LifeSize® Express, a full HD videoconferencing system with support for 30 frames @ second, 1280 x 720p resolution, H.239 and complete with HD PTZ camera and MicPod, all for an amazing and very affordable price tag.  Call today to find out how High Definition Video conferencing can change the way your company does business.

ShoreTel honors Ideacom Midwest for its 95% world-class customer satisfaction rating. In a letter to Ideacom Midwest’s President, Bill McCormick, Jr., John Combs CEO for ShoreTel states: ShoreTel is pleased to recognize your outstanding achievement in customer satisfaction. Your average score of 95% reflects a world class level of professionalism and customer care in network assessment, system design, project management , end-user training and post-sale follow-up as reflected in the ShoreTel customer satisfaction surveys conducted by an objective third party.

By measuring customer satisfaction with the same passion we use to mease product quality ShoreTel hopes to sustain the highest level of customer satisfaction in the industry. It’s partners like you (Ideacom Midwest) that insure that our customers are not only satisfied, but delighted with ShoreTel products and services.

Ideacom Midwest is proud to announce the addition of Shoretel as our partner for Pure VoIP solutions for our customers.  After a four-year search for the right product  in the pure VoIP arena, we finally found our perfect product.  In evaluating a wide variety of products, our search criteria was based on finding the system that would best deliver in four categories. The categories were (in no particular order), the system’s architecture and feature set would help our customers (1) increase the productivity of their staff, (2) be designed TO  help them provide world class customer service to their clients, (3) provide the reliability that our customers have been accustomed to with the legacy systems they currently have,  and (4) be affordable, not only the initial purchase , but also to maintain and grow. Overall, a great value.  We think this is the same criteria our customers will use when looking for their next generation system.  We searched, and were courted by the top names in the VoIP industry.  We looked at, and “test drove” all the systems marketed by the main players and some of the minor players as well.  After each test, the selection committee's evaluation determined that at least one of the four major criteria factors was seriously lacking.  In most cases the systems lacked more than one of the required criteria.

Then we met Shoretel.  A perfect match to our four deciding factors.   Thirty year veterans in the voice industry were saying WOW! at every aspect of  the product and the company. We think you will too.  Call us and schedule a demo and see how your company’s bottom line can be improved with a better communication system. 

Executone and Toshiba Customer Promo Announced
If your company is still using an Executone or Toshiba phone system, it has served you well. But, there comes a time with every system that change becomes inevitable. The Executone and Toshiba line became discontinued years ago. Up to now, we have been able to get an ample supply of service parts to keep companies like yours serviced and secure in the knowledge that the expertise to repair your system is available.

Knowing that this situation exists, Ideacom has taken steps to help you proactively deal with this issue. We have developed an incentive program in cooperation with our current manufacturers, ShoreTel, Tadiran, Iwatsu and Vodavi. Ideacom Midwest will offer you a new telephone system and reduce the price by 20%. We will include a one year parts and labor warranty and an additional *4 years of warranty covering parts only. The system will be available for a very affordable monthly lease payment or can even be contracted on our guaranteed no obsolescence rental program. On this program, you can upgrade at any time for any reason during the rental term with no penalties. This program also includes all parts and labor associated with service/support during the entire term.

Contact the sales department to see how you can affordably upgrade your Executone and Toshiba telephone system with the technology of today.

     314-961-0557 or sales@ideacommidwest.com  

*not available with all current manufacturers

Ideacom Midwest join in sponsorship of Emmaus Homes' Open Your Heart Dinner. The 18th Annual Open Your Heart Dinner to benefit Emmaus Homes was sponsored by: Emerson Climate Technologies Flow Controls; Ideacom Midwest Inc.; Ameristar Casino; Bank of Sullivan; Commercial Cuts; GFI Digital Inc.; Hellebusch Tool & Die; Limited Leasing; The Quality Coach!; Safeway Tire; St. Charles Sand; and United Access.

Friends and supporters of Emmaus Homes joined together to raise over $110,000 for men and women with developmental disabilities at the 18th Annual Open Your Heart Dinner on Friday, February 10, 2006. The gala dinner, attended by about 450 guests, was held at the Sheraton Westport Chalet in St. Louis. All proceeds from the Open Your Heart Dinner support the residential, habilitative and recreational programs offered by Emmaus Homes.

The evening’s festivities included a silent auction of nearly 100 items, including gift baskets, vacation packages, sports tickets and jewelry. A wide selection of items at all price levels allowed all guests to get in on the fun. After dinner in the Grand Ballroom, guests joined in the excitement of an oral auction of such items as a Cardinals game in a luxury suite, a diamond pendant necklace, a day with the chef at Monarch Restaurant, a private plane trip to Sikeston, Mo., for a VIP dinner at Lambert’s Café and an oil pastel landscape of the St. Louis riverfront created by Emmaus Homes clients. The evening concluded with dancing to the Chasers Fore band.

“Heroes Lunch” prepared again for Brentwood’s Police and Fire Departments
In the spirit of remembering those who have dedicated their lives to helping others Ideacom Midwest prepared our Annual “Heroes Lunch” for the Brentwood Police and Firefighters. Since the tragedy in New York City on September 11, 2001 our eyes have been opened to the heroism that police and fire departments display across this nation. In mind of that recognition, the employees of Ideacom Midwest have honored those who have chosen to locally defend our cities by preparing a “Heroes Lunch”.  On every September 11th since, we have prepared a wonderful steak lunch for the Brentwood Fire and Police departments at their locations. In keeping with that tradition, Ideacom Midwest served the Annual “Heroes Lunch” this year on September 11th.

Armed with Barbeque Pits and Charcoal at both the Police headquarters and the Fire Department, the Employees of Ideacom, grilled bacon-wrapped Filet Mignon from Chesterfield Valley Meat Co., potatoes baked to perfection, tossed vegetable salad, and baked desserts, for those who protect us on a daily basis.

We had a perfect day for the barbeque and everyone enjoyed themselves. We hope to keep the tradition going a long time, to remind us all what a great country we live in and the privileges that good protection gives us.

Ideacom Midwest’s Network Products Group partners with Tower Grove Park to deliver a new Virtual Private Network (VPN) solution. Tower Grove Park is a not-for-profit organization serving to ensure the restoration and support on-going activities within and for the Tower grove Park located in South St. Louis City. The VPN solution is part of Tower Grove Park’s data networking infrastructure provided by Ideacom. To learn more about Tower Grove Park please visit their website at: www.towergrovepark.org. To learn more about the technologies deployed by the park, please contact the Ideacom Midwest sales department at 314.961.0557 or sales@ideacommidwest.com.