Sydney, Australia, April 18, 2006 - Billback Systems, a subsidiary of Espreon Limited (ASX: EON), and a leading provider of cost management and cost recovery solutions, announced today that it has reached an agreement with AIRTIME-Manager to provide a real time chargeback service for BlackBerry® or Palm® Treo® based cell phone calls and other mobile expenses. The service, called Billback AIRTIME, integrates seamlessly with the Billback cost recovery suite, and will be offered exclusively to Billback clients.
"With the demand for mobile deployments ratcheting up day by day, Billback clients require the ability to manage and recover cell phone expenses in the most effective way possible," said Jim Whitmore, Vice-President of Sales North America for Billback. "We partnered with Airtime Manager because they offer a level of products and service excellence that is unmatched within the evolving field of mobile expense recovery and management. The traditional method of managing and recovering mobile calls once a month when the carrier's bills are received is inefficient and leads to minimal recoveries. Billback and AIRTIME-Manager are now able to provide clients the ability to track and recover mobile calls on a real time basis and eliminate time consuming month-end processing."
"Billback Systems has identified a clear need for mobile cost recovery and we are pleased to help them solve what is a growing problem at today's law firms", said Jerry Fenzel, JD, President and CEO of AIRTIME-Manager. "As converged devices are increasingly the norm, mobility costs continue to spiral upward. Billback AIRTIME solves that problem by putting a simple and noninvasive chargeback tool directly into the user's hands."
Billback AIRTIME is a derivate service based on the AIRTIME-A4P product suite. Billback clients electing to deploy the full A4P service can accurately capture billable time and client information using their BlackBerry® or Palm® Treo® wireless devices. Calls, emails and other billable time recorded are automatically captured using A4P prompts. A4P also permits attorneys to enter time manually as well as optionally capturing time via a stopwatch.
About Billback SystemsBillback Systems, a division of Espreon Limited (ASX: EON) is a leading provider of cost management and cost recovery solutions to professional services firms worldwide. Founded in 1983, Billback has over 1100 clients globally including 8 of the top 10 Australian law firms, 4 of the top 15 UK law firms and a growing group of clients in North America. Billback's reputation has been built on high quality support and the development of innovative technologies including the first browser-based cost recovery solution for law firms (known as iBillback) and the Advantage touchscreen application for the control of MFPs. It has highly effective software solutions for the capture of network printing, telephone and mobile phone use, network faxes, corporate credit card and a variety of miscellaneous expenses including on-line search fees, courier, taxi usage and more. With a global network of Billback support centers strategically located in the US, the UK and Australia and high-availability on-site support coverage, Billback is able to provide industry leading support around the globe. For more information, visit www.billback.com.
