Maintenance Services Made Simple

Marketing Contact:
Kelly Senecal
Marketing Manager
kelly@maintenancenet.com
Telephone: 760.496.7575

San Antonio, TX - August 16, 2005 – MaintenanceNet™, the leading provider of maintenance contract management solutions, is demonstrating the power of MaintenanceNetT at the Avnet Partner Solutions, a division of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT) Ignition 2005 event in San Antonio, Texas from August 21-23. During the 2 ½-day conference, MaintenanceNet will demonstrate how their contract management solution not only provides visibility and data integrity into contract data, but also empowers solution providers to manage and capture maintenance contract renewals and technology refresh opportunities, increases new services revenue, and drives customer satisfaction and retention.

"MaintenanceNet provides valuable tools and services to enable our customers to manage and grow their annuity businesses," said Scott Herron, CEO for MaintenanceNet. "We are excited to be working with Avnet Partner Solutions and their IBM solution providers to help generate additional revenue for their organizations and add value to their clients."

IT maintenance contracts are highly profitable and more predictable than product sales. Organizations often overlook this revenue potential and don't aggressively pursue this business due to the effort it takes to manage and support the sale of maintenance. MaintenanceNet has designed a solution that provides IT manufacturers, VARs, system integrators and end-clients a detailed level of visibility to all maintenance contract data through a collaborative web-enabled application.

Through a data aggregation engine and web-enabled application, MaintenanceNet unites disparate multi-party data sources and initiates processes to normalize maintenance contract information, creating a communication conduit between the equipment manufacturer, distributor, VARs and end-clients. While collaborating with suppliers to pull critical data, MaintenanceNet cleanses the data and builds a more reliable single system of record from which all party's can interact. This visibility and data integrity, as well as notification capabilities, empower organizations to increase sales of new contracts as well as renewals of existing contracts while improving customer satisfaction and retention with a value-add application.

MaintenanceNet will be giving product demonstrations in the Solution Center, Exhibit #13a. About MaintenanceNet
MaintenanceNet™ provides web-based products, back-end data remediation services, and practical business solutions for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and their Channel Partners. MaintenanceNet products and services help leading Technology Vendors organize complex maintenance-specific information (maintenance coverages, licenses, and warranties) and use it to drive new business opportunities, increase customer satisfaction and lower the cost of sale. For more information, contact us at (866) 699-7212 or visit www.maintenancenet.com.

MaintenanceNet is a ® registered trademark of MaintenanceNet Incorporated. Avnet and Avnet Partner Solutions is a registered trademark of Avnet, Inc.