Avotus Hosts Aberdeen's Christa Degnan in Webinar to Examine Recent Aberdeen Report on Telecom Spend Management; Webinar on May 25 to Highlight Telecommunications Sourcing...

TORONTO and BOSTON -- Avotus(R) Corporation (TSX Venture: AVS), the leading provider of communications expense management (TEM) solutions, recently co-sponsored Aberdeen Group research resulting in the report, "Best Practices in Telecom Spend Management: Success Strategies for Optimizing Telecom Utilization, Performance and Expense." The report authored by Aberdeen analysts, Christa Degnan, Tim Minahan and Richard Waugh, provides an insightful analysis of telecommunications cost management best practices.

In defining Aberdeen's total telecom cost management (TTCM) market/technology segment, the analysts present a TTCM framework that includes a holistic approach entailing five key process steps:

1. Monitor

2. Buying

3. Analyze

4. Plan

5. Source

Aberdeen's Christa Degnan will present these five TTCM steps at the Avotus Webinar.

Host: Avotus - Gary Zimmerman, director of product marketing

Industry Analyst: Christa Degnan, research director, Aberdeen Group

When: May 25 - 2:00-3:00 PM EDT 

Where: Webinar - Preregister at: https://avotusevents.webex.com

Avotus, as the only company that offers "Total Control from Procurement to Payment(TM)" for communications services, is in a unique position to discuss the "Source" component of the framework. Under that category, Avotus provides ARTools(R) WebAuction(TM), an automated e-Procurement solution that has been developed and customized specifically for communications sourcing and supports online negotiation of hardware, services and Service Level Agreements (SLA).

Commented Alan Gold, Avotus chief marketing officer, "Avotus is uniquely positioned to deliver the entire solution set that supports TTCM since we are the only company that starts with the procurement process and controls the telecommunications spend right through contract validation, invoice reconciliation, processing and payment - and we do it for wired, wireless and Internet phones, as well as PDAs, data lines and conferencing - any communications technology. Using our automated WebAuction technology, procurements can be completed up to 96 percent faster than traditional sourcing which means a typical five to nine month Request for Proposal (RFP) process can be conducted in as little as five weeks. Our approach can save corporate customers as much as 50 percent on their telecommunications spend."

About Avotus

Avotus is the leader for groundbreaking technology-based telecommunications and data expense management (TEM) solutions. The company has a 20-year history of empowering companies of all sizes to gain lasting control over their complete worldwide communications environment through the effective management of their voice, data and converged communications spend. Only Avotus brings together e-Procurement, expense, and usage management into a fully integrated solution. Avotus provides dramatic and verifiable cost savings of as much as 50% of an enterprise's current communications spend and a triple digit in-year ROI. Combining technology, automation, communications experts, and industry best practices, Avotus solutions make it possible to not only realize significant spend reduction but to continuously verify and permanently implement all cost and process improvements. Avotus offers the widest, deepest and most flexible solution set available including an onsite enterprise implementation, a hosted Application Service Provider (ASP) model, and a completely outsourced value-added managed solution.

For more information about Avotus communications management solutions, customers, and partners, visit www.avotus.com.

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