Avalon Global Solutions, Inc., (AGS) a provider of Mobile Lifecycle Management (MLM) solutions in North America, and Teleopti AB (Teleopti) of Sweden, a provider of comprehensive Telecommunications Expense Management (TEM) applications in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, announced today a strategic business partnership to address enterprise level mobility management globally.

The two companies will provide customers a comprehensive suite of fixed and mobile lifecycle management solutions for multinational enterprises seeking an answer to the technical and financial demands associated with managing enterprise network and mobility initiatives.

Under this agreement AGS and Teleopti will work closely together to provide a Global Telecom Expense Management Solution. AGS will resell Teleopti’s products and services in North America and abroad.

"This partnership joins two complementary companies with a common vision of providing fixed and mobile lifecycle management globally." said Michael Mansouri, Chairman and CEO of AGS. "Our companies will deliver a common service suite which is "localized" to the national market in terms of Multi-lingual, Multi-currency feature/functionality and meeting "local" regulatory requirements."

"Currently enterprises are driving for business enablement as well as visibility and control over fixed and mobile expenses." said Nils Bildt, President of Teleopti. "AGS and Teleopti, as leaders in their respective markets, will deliver classic Telecom Expense Management (TEM) with Mobile Device Management and expanded Help Desk capabilities with increased scalability through additional staff, and redundancy from multiple locations. Enterprises will gain visibility to better manage costs globally while improving their mobile workforces experience and capability to use smartphones and mobile applications."

Teleopti Pro is an efficient Telecom Expense Management solution that controls costs, monitors quality and manages all communication devices and services. Teleopti’s technology receives electronic invoices from more than 40 carriers in 30 countries. Additionally, Teleopti technology fully complies with all local regulations such as European Union privacy regulations.

The combination of AGS and Teleopti systems and services will increase the breadth of technology enabled Business Process Outsourcing to include:
• Global fixed line and mobile procurement
• Multi-currency fixed line and mobile Total Invoice Management, Expense management, Optimization
• Global fixed and mobile Audits (domestic & international)
• Logitics to include global procurement and replacement, spares pool management and secure disposal
• Advanced Help Desk for device, service and mobile application support available in local languages and local time zones
• Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) support from Tier 1 & Tier 2 administration for enterprise activation and password reset to comprehensive remote BES administration
• Mobile Security at a device level as well as IT/Security policy administration for non-Blackberry devices