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AnchorPoint Announces ‘AnchorPoint Retail’

Leading TEM Vendor Announces New Retail Industry Service Offering

Jan 09, 2007 - FRAMINGHAM, MA, and NEW YORK, NY, Booth #1766, NRF - AnchorPoint, a leader in integrated Telecom Expense Management (TEM) solutions, today announced ‘AnchorPoint Retail’, the company’s new offering designed to meet the unique needs of the retail market. AnchorPoint Retail will be unveiled at the National Retail Federation (NRF) 96th Annual Convention & Expo at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, from January 14-17, 2007 at Booth #1766.

Driven by strong demand for forward-thinking approaches to cutting costs, improving operational efficiency and advancing competitive positioning within the retail industry, AnchorPoint has developed a robust, modular end-to-end TEM solution offering that includes:

• Retail TEM Technology Platform: Invoice & Financial Management, Asset & Inventory Management and Usage & Business Management capabilities for all store locations and users.

• Customer Centric Deployment Options: Customers select internally deployed software licenses or menu driven “order-to-pay” managed services.

• Map-To-Win™ Consulting Program: Our strategic consulting program delivers a process-oriented roadmap with industry and organizational benchmarking.

• Enhanced Business Visibility: Strategic to operational decision-making tools to improve efficiencies leveraging flexible, customizable dashboards, graphics, trending and drill-down analysis. Includes retail industry best-practice templates that enable managers to tie store data such as revenue to IT costs and initiatives.

‘AnchorPoint Retail’ combines the recently announced AnchorPoint 6.0 functionality of IT asset management, enhanced analytics with invoice auditing capabilities for retail companies. AnchorPoint’s new offering allows store managers to view customized visibility into cost-per-store performance analysis, enabling quick, strategic business decisions. ‘AnchorPoint Retail’ also facilitates centralized move, add, change, and delete (MACD) activities for more efficient store operations.

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.