Asentinel Announces General Services Administration Compliancy

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, April 4, 2005 - Asentinel, a leading telecommunications expense management company, has been awarded a federal government contract stating that its patent-pending telecom expense management software package is General Services Administration (GSA) compliant, David C. Perdue, Asentinel CEO, announced today.

The GSA is the business manager and purchasing agent for the U.S. government. Each year, it purchases billions of dollars worth of goods and services for federal agencies from GSA approved vendors. GSA establishes long-term government-wide contracts with commercial firms to provide access to supplies and services.

"This GSA contract award proves Asentinel's ability to realize significant ROIs for government agencies," said Perdue. "Asentinel's ability to provide a central repository for all telecom expenses, while saving government agencies time and money, is attractive at all levels of government."

Asentinel's telecom expense management software is currently being used in Fulton County, Georgia. After adopting the software, the county realized significant saving in time and money and was even made aware of billing discrepancies that resulted in payments back to the county.

As explained by Robert Taylor, CIO and director of information technology for Fulton County, "Before Asentinel, paying telecom bills was like that episode of I Love Lucy where she and Ethel were working at the candy factory. We did our best to keep up with the billing, but it was coming in faster than we could manage," he said.

Taylor was recently named "one of the government's Top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers by Government Technology magazine.

Written in Java, Asentinel's comprehensive telecom expense management software automates the process of telecom invoice management in real time, analyzing every invoice against vendor contracts, hidden costs, active inventory, and flagging every exception. As a result, clients' telecom expenses decline while internal processing time is greatly reduced, simplified and streamlined.

After nearly tripling its sales in 2004, Asentinel expects equal or better increases in 2005 as it grows its list of Fortune 1000 companies and government entities that realize the power of automated telecom expense management. For more information, visit Asentinel at www.asentinel.com.