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AnchorPoint and CANDID Business Solutions Announce Business Partnership

Leading Telecom Expense Management Provider and Premier Bill Consolidator to Offer Complementary Services

May 28, 2008 - Framingham, MA - AnchorPoint, the leading provider of integrated Telecom Expenses Management (TEM) solutions announced today that CANDID Business Solutions, Inc., an Illinois-based premium telecom reseller has selected AnchorPoint as its recommended provider of TEM software and services to its customers.

According to John Dretler, senior vice president, AnchorPoint, “CANDID’s customers are multi-location organizations interested in lowering their telecom costs and improving the efficiency of their telecom invoice processing. These are the exact benefits the AnchorPoint solution offers. We’re excited about this partnership and opportunity to offer these types of savings to CANDID’s customers.”

CANDID specializes in multi-location enterprise businesses that not only require the benefits of AnchorPoint’s TEM solution, but desire reduced costs for telecommunications services without sacrificing quality account management support. Maintaining wholesale agreements with over 40 of the most respected providers, CANDID is able to bring significant pricing leverage to a wide variety of customers including those small offices with business lines and DSL needs to others requiring full “carrier-class” service and excellent redundancy measures such as high capacity fiber networks and SONET technologies.

“Most of the customers we work with see TEM as the next strategic step to managing spend after we’ve consolidated their billing,” said Joe Dix, president, CEO and founder of CANDID Business Solutions. “As a recognized TEM market leader with a solid portfolio of TEM solutions, we’re confident that AnchorPoint will deliver full telecom lifecycle management and further savings to our clients.”

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. 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, and to achieve these results quickly.

About CANDID

CANDID Business Solutions (www.candidbusiness.com) is a privately held premium telecommunications reseller that specializes in multi-location enterprise businesses that desire reduced costs for telecommunications services. As a power reseller with a multi-carrier base and a network of some of the most knowledgeable independent agents in the business, CANDID offers tailored solutions to each client saving significant money while at the same time adding an extra layer of network security. Maintaining wholesale agreements with over 40 of the most respected providers, CANDID is able to bring significant pricing leverage to a wide variety of customers including those small offices with business lines to large enterprises with complex technology infrastructure and communications needs. The CANDID management team has been at the forefront of technology and innovative, least-cost solutions since the 1970’s.

AnchorPoint Contact:
John Venditti | +1 508-628-4549 | john.venditti@mtsint.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.