Nation's Largest Producer of Natural Gas Selects Asentinel® for Telecom Expense Management

MEMPHIS, Tennessee (March 1, 2008) - The nation's number one producer of natural gas has selected Asentinel's patented software, Asentinel 5.0, for Telecom Expense Management.

The customer's headquarters houses more than 3,000 employees in a highly interactive environment. Asentinel will allow the company to maintain the instant communication necessary to its success, while insuring against erroneous charges on all telecom invoices, including wireless, wireline, voice, data and equipment assets.
"In an ever growing and changing environment, telecom expenses can pile up and enterprises can be losing millions," said David C. Perdue, Asentinel CEO. "Asentinel 5.0 can guard against overages, and also retroactively find errors in billing."

In addition to the cost savings, the Asentinel 5.0 software offers its customers complete control over their entire telecom picture in a streamlined, automated process. A central repository of every invoice is updated in real-time through the online software, and customers have numerous configurability options to make the software work for their company. In addition, the reporting, asset and inventory management, provisioning, and business intelligence functionality of the software allows customers to keep complete control of their telecom environment.

"With Asentinel, enterprises maintain control of their telecom spend, without the hassle of having to manually manage thousands of telecom invoices," said Perdue. "The whole picture is accessible 24 hours a day in real-time."

In addition to it core software, Asentinel offers its customers TouchFree TEM™ and Contract ControlTEM™. TouchFree TEM allows customers to have their telecom invoices sent directly to Asentinel, where Asentinel professionals upload the invoices into the system. Asentinel's own OIRTEM™ (Optical Invoice Recognition) technology intelligently reads paper invoices down to the lowest line of detail, accurately scanning them into the Asentinel 5.0 system. The Contract Control feature gives customers the option to have Asentinel professionals upload telecom contracts into the Asentinel 5.0 system.

This saves time on the customer's end, and also insures all contract codes and specifics are uploaded correctly to achieve maximum savings.

Recognizing its leadership in the industry, Asentinel holds the only A to Z United States patent (#7340422) for telecom expense management. Its groundbreaking software, Asentinel 5.0, has saved its customers millions of dollars since its inception in 2002. Asentinel continues to grow its list of Fortune 1000 companies and government entities that realize the power of telecom expense management. For more information, please visit www.asentinel.com