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AnchorPoint Announces the Map-to-Win^SM Approach to TEM Deployment

Groundbreaking, Business Alignment Program Delivers Implementation Results

Dec 18, 2006 - Framingham, MA - AnchorPoint, a leader in integrated Telecom Expense Management (TEM) solutions, today announced Map-to-Win^SM, a strategic consulting approach that enables organizations to effectively align their business goals with people, process and technology investments to assure the success of their expense management initiatives.

AnchorPoint’s announcement highlights their proven process that has enabled customers to rapidly implement and adopt TEM technology and achieve groundbreaking results.

Map-to-Win^SM is AnchorPoint’s customer-oriented discovery process that delivers a strategic road-map and assures the organization’s vital program goals are fully achieved including:

•Business Alignment: Aligning business priorities with your TEM technology solution, processes and people resources.

•Workflow Design: Defining the current and future order-to-pay workflow and lifecycle maximizes organizational efficiency and effectiveness.

•Clear Results Definition: Validating the tangible business benefits for implementing TEM, including potential cost savings and operational efficiencies.

•Memorializing the Plan: Documenting current processes, while recommending future process improvements by way of thorough practice documentation.

•Roadmap Assuring Success: Providing a time-phased roadmap that brings an effective and rapid implementation to life.

“A major benefit the Map-to-Win^SM approach provides us with is process survivability,” said Tom Hamilton, AVP, Manager of Branch Communications, AG Edwards. “Before this work was done, I had to rely on the undocumented intellectual capital of my staff to drive our TEM processes. Now every process is clearly documented, and my staff will be able to effectively cover for one another if someone is out for any extended period of time.”

“When I entered this space with an Ernst and Young background, I immediately saw an opportunity to pragmatically apply a more comprehensive, customer-centric approach that enabled organizations to achieve value at each and every phase of the order-to-pay lifecycle,” said Brad Standley, Vice President, Consulting with AnchorPoint. With roughly one-third of a telecom staff’s time spent on the processing or administrative workload, Map-to-Win^SM has enabled our customers to focus on more analytical and problem-solving work helping them get to a realistic, tangible ROI more quickly and more efficiently. It truly is industry-leading.”

The Map-to-Win^SM approach imbeds predictability into AnchorPoint’sTEM programs producing quantifiable results which include:

•35% annual telecom savings for a customer overachieving projections by over $100,000

•Consolidated voice, data, wireless and IT assets from several organizations in a highly distributed environment into a single, common process and database

•Eliminated spread-sheet driven and manual processes linking of hundreds of spreadsheets

•Reduced legal compliance processes from a half-day to just minutes

•A 73% reduction of a 138-step telecom order-to-pay process to just 37 steps

Within the rapidly growing TEM sector, AnchorPoint has not only developed Map-to-Win^SM, an innovative, client-centric approach – they have also reported impressive growth with an increased backlog of over 2000% across various industry sectors, including retail and financial services. The company has also recently released a new version of their award-winning software, Version 6.0 expanding its expense management capabilities to include IT Assets.

Learn more about Map-to-Win^SM at www.anchorpoint.com.

Corporate Contact:
Michael Grillo | Marketing Manager | +1 508-628-4524 | mgrillo@anchorpoint.com

Media Contact:
Tom Bain| Racepoint Group | +1 781-487-4616 | tbain@racepointgroup.com

About Anchorpoint

AnchorPoint (www.AnchorPoint.com) is a leading provider of Telecom Expense Management Solutions that enable enterprises to gain visibility and control of strategic assets that drive key business processes and crucial competitive advantage. The company’s award-winning software, consulting and managed services solutions -- including integrated Invoice, Asset, and Usage Management and Business Analytics tools -- provide professionals at every level of the organization with rapid access to concise, actionable data. Armed with this knowledge, they can make smart operational and financial decisions that maximize the performance of core assets and services. From reducing costs and optimizing resources for superior ROI; from allocating budgets to ensuring regulatory compliance; from purchasing to payment; and everything in between, global leaders like BB&T, Pitney Bowes and AGFA rely on AnchorPoint for absolute control over bottom line results.