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Healthy Telecom Expense Management Growth

Rise in Healthcare Sector Sales Contributing to AnchorPoint Expansion

Dec 18, 2007 - Framingham, MA - AnchorPoint, the leading provider of integrated Telecom Expenses Management (TEM) solutions announced today a series of new contracts from the healthcare sector. The new business comes from an increased demand for AnchorPoint’s TEM solution. Offered as a software license, hosted or outsourced solution, AnchorPoint TEM enables customers to intelligently manage, plan, optimize, and reduce their communications and network investments.

Among its top recent healthcare sales AnchorPoint added a national and global provider of dialysis and hemodialysis systems, a not-for-profit healthcare system located in the South, and one of the largest healthcare systems providers in the Midwest. In addition, one of AnchorPoint’s largest healthcare customers expanded its TEM reach into a recently acquired subsidiary that provides healthcare benefits to over 2.6 million members in the state of New York.

Independent analyst firm Aberdeen Group recently noted in its annual 2007 Telecom Expense Management Report, “Best-in-Class organizations were three-times more likely than [others] to have standardized reporting and analytics capabilities enabling them to easily identify trends and anomalies in their overall and departmental telecom spend.” Moreover, “Increasing visibility into telecom spending is the key action organizations should take to gain a measure of control over telecom expenses¹.”

“Most of our healthcare clients are seeking a solution that enables them to reduce costs and provide visibility into their telecom spend in addition to the ability to charge back cost centers for those related expenses,” said John Dretler, Senior Vice President, AnchorPoint. “Given the current financial pressures on many healthcare systems providers —hospitals and healthcare centers are interested in the significant savings to be realized from automating and centrally managing wireline, wireless and data services.”

Services and solutions for the new and expanded customer engagements provide for the full set of TEM lifecycle requirements—service order and provisioning, inventory, invoice management, payment, cost allocation and analysis — as well as traditional call accounting and chargeback functionality.

AnchorPoint customer engagements begin with Map-to-Win^SM, AnchorPoint’s strategic consulting approach. Map-to-Win^SM enables organizations to effectively align their business goals with their people, process and technology investments, to assure the success of their expense management initiatives.

¹The Real Return on Investment of Total Telecom Expense Management, The Telecom Expense Management Report, John Mazur, Aberdeen Group, November, 2007

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.