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AnchorPoint Receives Product of the Year Award from Communications Solutions

AnchorPoint 6.0 Honored for Outstanding Innovation

May 22, 2007 - Framingham, MA - AnchorPoint announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC) Communications Solutions (www.tmcnet.com/comsol) has named AnchorPoint 6.0 as a recipient of a 2006 Product of the Year Award.

AnchorPoint Telecom Expense Management (TEM) solutions help enterprises plan, manage and reduce costs and optimize and improve operational efficiencies. AnchorPoint 6.0 provides a fully integrated TEM suite (Invoice Management, Usage Management, Asset Management, and Business Analytics) for wireline, wireless and data services on one platform.

“We’re pleased to receive this award for the second year in a row,” said David E. Olsson, CEO and President, AnchorPoint. “AnchorPoint Version 6.0 folds in IT Asset Management configurability tools and raises the bar for delivering financial controls to our customers with our enhanced reporting capabilities through Microsoft SSRS. Incorporating IT assets and services into the expanded AnchorPoint data model provides a 360 degree end-to-end view of crucial intelligence for IT/Telecom staff.” Olsson also noted, “The award tops a great year of wins for AnchorPoint particularly in the financial services and retail sectors.”

“AnchorPoint has been recognized with a 2006 Product of the Year Award for their excellence in technological advancement and application refinement,” said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Group Editor-in-Chief of Communications Solutions, “AnchorPoint has proven they are committed to quality and excellence in solutions that benefit the customer experience as well as ROI for the companies that use them. I am pleased to honor their hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from them in the future.”

The seventh annual Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award recognizes the vision, leadership and attention to detail that are the hallmarks of the prestigious award. The most innovative products and services brought to market in 2006 have been selected as recipients of this year’s Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award for their groundbreaking achievement.

The 2006 Product of the Year Award winners can be found on the Communications Solutions Web site.

About TMC

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print publications: Customer Inter@ction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine, IMS Magazine and Unified Communications (launching summer 2007). TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 0.003 percent of sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves nearly two million unique visitors each month, according to WebTrends. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces , Communications Developer Conference, IMS Expo and Call Center 2.0 Conference. TMCnet.com publishes more than 15 topical online newsletters. (*alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.)

For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.

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