Ariston Global Overview

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• Ariston Global Overview
• Fall 2008

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Business Overview

• Ariston Global is a software services provider
  founded in April, 2006. Ariston Global was
  founded by Kevin Dickens, Steve Dubnik and Spire
  Capital Partners, L.P. Spire Capital invests in
  middle market buyouts, recapitalizations,
  industry consolidations and growth equity
  investments in the media, communications,
  information services and business services
  industries
• The company operates two largely independent
  divisions that focus on complementary, yet
  distinct markets (i) Revenue and Profitability
  Management (RPM) as well as (ii) Service
  Activation and Customer Self-Care (SACC)
• Presently, the RPM group is marketed under the
  company name(s) Telesciences/ACECOMM and the
  SACC solutions as The Strata Group
• Ariston Global has customers worldwide with
  principal concentrations of domain knowledge and
  customer support expertise in Canada, Dublin,
  Edinburgh, London, Australia, Singapore, Maryland
  and New Jersey

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Business Focus

• Ariston Globals vision is to create an
  innovative organization through combinations of
  acquisition, merger and organic growth that will
  provide enabling software tools, services and
  solutions to the communications industry and
  select large enterprise customers worldwide
• Through thoughtful integration, collaboration and
  partnering, the Ariston Global divisions realize
  the benefits of an association with a larger,
  diverse and expanding organization - without
  compromising each entity's heritage of individual
  focus and passionate customer orientation
• We create value through organic growth, MA and
  integration efficiencies

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Business Overview The Opportunity

• Communication providers and large enterprises are
  confronting new challenges
• emerging technologies and applications
• enhanced competitive, margin and efficiency
  pressures
• Emerging technologies such as IP, WiMax and
  content oriented applications are enabling the
  creation of new companies and/or competitors with
  service capabilities that demand innovation from
  existing providers
• Companies facing these industry dynamics require
  new methods of gathering business intelligence,
  rating and billing, system/network integration,
  monitoring networks/performance as well as
  servicing clients with both current and enhanced
  applications
• We are targeting communications firms in the
  wireline, wireless, cable and satellite broadband
  sectors as well as selected large enterprises
  such as the DOD, Federal and large municipal
  governments worldwide

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Customer Facing Organizations

• Revenue and Profitability Management Division
• ACECOMMACECOMM Corporation is a global
  provider of advanced operations support systems
  and value added services solutions.  ACECOMM
  provides an inter operable suite of
  telecommunications network business integration
  products and services that help
  telecommunications carriers and large enterprises
  exercise greater and more immediate control over
  the business of their networks.
• TelesciencesTelesciences is a leader in
  delivering innovative software and solutions for
  service providers to gather, mediate and analyze
  event usage-related data, allowing the carriers
  to assure customer and product performance and
  profitability.  Our 10e Analytics product suite
  is best know for delivering reliable revenue,
  cost and customer experience tools.

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Customer Facing Organizations, cont.

• Service Activation and Customer-Care Division
• The Strata GroupThe Strata Group provides
  software applications for subscriber, web-based
  self-care to both service providers and their
  customers.  Strata's customer self-care solutions
  are deployed in traditional and next generation
  networks serving both commercial and consumer
  market applications.Through its Conexon
  solution set, we enable broadband operators to
  activate and manage the delivery of multi-play
  traditional and IP services including data,
  voice, video and wireless applications.

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Why AG solutions? - Differentiators

• Intellectual property and domain expertise
• Business acumen, beyond individuals, to leverage
  years of experience
• Products designed for specific purpose
• Focus On our customers (pre-sale, delivery
  post-sale) and our products
• Pre-sale expertise is maintained throughout the
  execution process generally only
  available to the largest of service providers and
  often isnt required as they themselves have
  domain expertise
• Products are built and maintained for a specific
  purpose
• Innovation
• Willingness to take new approaches without need
  to preserve past practices if not necessary.
  This is more effectively executed in an
  environment where team sizes are smaller,
  generally more experienced

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Why AG solutions? - Differentiators

• Ability to deliver against critical time period
  constraints
• Speed, agility derived from many of the
  elements noted above
• Economical price, cost/performance ratios,
  flexibility in deal structure and terms
• Efficiency in design, ability to leverage partner
  relationships, fewer entanglements with other
  deal terms/relationships, lower overheads
• Heritage, reputation of service, execution and
  reliability
• Telescience, Strata, and Acecomm each have a
  long history of positive relationships within
  their respective customer/product domains
• Confidence that we can be an effective partner,
  respond quickly to changes in focus, and provide
  executive support/dialog if required while the
  technological viability of the solution is a
  given

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In summary

• Unprecedented marketplace changes are creating
  the opportunity for industry transforming events
• The largest and most established communications
  service providers are being forced to offer new
  services across an evolving and more efficient
  infrastructure, while emerging providers are
  changing the competitive framework
• A significant opportunity exists for Ariston
  Global to offer global communication providers
  and select large enterprises new tools, services
  and solutions to address changing marketplace
• Logical acquisition and related partnership
  opportunities will continue to be
• actively explored in Revenue Profitability
  Management, Service Activation and Customer Care
  as well as other complementary application
  sectors