Candid Selects Optelcon As Its Telecom Expense Mangement Partner

Glenview, IL — Sept 17, 2007 — Candid and Optelcon announced an agreement today through which Candid will add Optelcon’s latest generation of telecom expense management services, “TEM”, to enhance its already extensive Telecom service offerings. Through this partnership, Candid will be expanding its current offering with services such as VOIP/Call Accounting, Invoice Processing, Mobile Expense Optimization and Management, and a host of other services. These services are all designed to reduce their client telecom expenditures and automate key business processes.

Gathering and consolidating all of the of a company’s telecom information into one central system is one of the biggest problems faced by organizations trying to manage their telecom more effectively. Multiple invoices, vendors, contracts, rates, departments and locations make it extremely difficult to create a complete cohesive set of telecom information. By using Optelcon’s solutions, Candid will be able to create a multi-country, central repository of all of their client’s telecom information. By centralizing this information Candid and its clients can share information and make solid business decisions based on a more complete picture of the client’s telecom environment. One of the advantages of Optelcon’s technology is that it was designed with partners like Candid in mind. The combination our technology combined with Candid’s extensive industry knowledge will make a very effective solution.

“Candid, has been offering our clients a higher level of service, support and pricing to its enterprise clients. By being able to offer and manage virtually every major telecom supplier, our clients are able to benefit from the best solution, while also benefiting from Candid’s centralized pricing, ordering and support capabilities. After evaluating a number of major TEM company’s solutions, we chose to work with Optelcon. One of the key factors in our decision was that Optelcon has the most complete set of TEM products under one platform. Due to the large number of acquisitions in the TEM space, many of the other bigger companies were essentially a loose group of individual companies using the same name. Optelcon allows us one point of contact, one company and one suite of services. In addition, Optelcon is a completely vendor neutral information system first and foremost. By using their systems, we can maintain total neutrality with our recommendations for savings and consulting analysis, albeit with more complete centralized information”. Said Joseph Dix; the President, CEO and founder of Candid Business Solutions.

“Optelcon is very excited about working with Candid Business Solutions. Our strategy of creating this type of relationship enables both Candid and Optelcon to create a more expanded and embedded relationship with its enterprise clients. Through this relationship, Optelcon is able to provide Candid with business opportunities which will enhance our client services. In addition, Optelcon will benefit from the client relation which Candid has built over the years. This is a very synergistic relationship. Candid can focus on providing their knowledge, expertise and services to their clients while we can focus on continually improving our technology to support their growth. Because the success of Candid directly impacts our success, our goals are firmly aligned”, said Robert Pommer, CEO and Founder of Optelcon.

CANDID Business Solutions, LLC. is an unbiased communications company that works for you—instead of the telephone company. Getting to know our clients configurations and understanding their needs in relation to telecommunications is our specialty... It is this preliminary step of getting to know your needs that sets the foundation for the CANDID/CLIENT relationship. Your needs become our needs! We offer a broad range of services at extremely competitive prices along with our famous phone bill analysis at no charge whether you become a client or not. Our footprint covers 100% of the United States along with a broad range of international products and services to meet the needs of those who are strategically located throughout the world. CANDID is a privately held telephone service aggregator with over 56 contracts ranging from Local and Long Distance, POTS Consolidation and Wireless Optimization, VoIP, MPLS, Network Design and Implementation, end-to-end wiring solutions, custom billing and Conferencing to name a few.

Everyone is looking for a more cost effective way of communicating with other businesses around the globe…CANDID Business Solutions is the piece your company has needed in order to run more smoothly while improving your efficiencies to make your company more profitable. CANDID Business Solutions provides each customer with “white glove” service from design through implementation and ongoing proactive management. This higher level of service is the key to better customer relationships and is not a cost add-in as with most telecom providers. You now have a telecommunications partner that you can rely on 100% of the time. We communicate with the carriers so you don’t have to. CANDID is truly the only communication solutions provider you will ever need. To learn more about CANDID, please visit us on the web at www.candidbusiness.com

Optelcon is a global expense avoidance and resource management software and services firm. Our next generation “On-Demand” web based solutions are used by professional expense management firms, mid-size enterprises and fortune 100 firms alike. With our team of telecom and software veterans, Optelcon provides the tools and experience to effectively manage all facets of our clients telecommunications. Our solutions integrate with key management systems such as PeopleSoft and SAP; and enable automation of AP/GL, employee level expense tracking, audits, asset and supplier management, MACD and policy management. Optelcon goes way beyond traditional auditing and invoice processing solutions. Optelcon helps companies who want to create both short term cost benefits, as well as implement permanent long term, best practices, telecom management solutions. To learn more about Optelcon, please visit us on the web at www.optelcon.com.

Press Contact:

Robert Pommer
847-501-5026

bobpommer@optelcon.com

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