Owner and Operator of Nationwide Office Properties Selects Asentinel® for Telecom Expense Management

MEMPHIS, Tennessee (April 1, 2008) - The owner of more than 50 million square feet of premier real estate in metropolitan markets across the country has selected Asentinel's patented software, Asentinel 5.0, for Telecom Expense Management.

The company makes frequent additions and deletions to its portfolio and this constant change results in telecom invoices that can be hard to track for consistency. In addition, maintaining a central repository of telecom assets with appropriate reporting is a challenge in this environment. Contributing to the problem of managing these far flung assets is employee turnover.

"As employees leave or change positions, phones and wireless devices are shut off or moved," said David C. Perdue, Asentinel CEO. "Often, Asentinel finds that companies are still being charged for phone lines of ex-employees or for applications not in use by a current employee, or for locations where the circuits were turned off but the billing for these circuits continues. The Asentinel 5.0 software retroactively finds instances where this is happening, and guards against it in the future."

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 Control™. TouchFree TEM allows customers to have their telecom invoices sent directly to Asentinel, where Asentinel professionals upload the invoices into the system. Asentinel's proprietary OIR™ (Optical Invoice Recognition) technology intelligently reads paper invoices down to the lowest level 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