Statement of Additional Information - SAI

Type: Private
On the web: http://www.sierragold.com
Employees: 35

SAI helps companies find hidden nuggets of savings within the streams of their telecommunications expenditures. The company's flagship Sierra Gold software product is a Web-based call accounting system that enables businesses to control telecommunications costs by monitoring network usage, managing communication with vendors, and routing incoming calls, among other things. It offers functionality for such corporate departments as accounting and IT services. The company sells the Sierra Gold software either as a licensed product installed on-site or as a hosted application. SAI also offers services such as implementation, maintenance, operator directories, toll-fraud monitoring, and third-party billing.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $2.5M

Officers:
Chairman and President: David L. Schmidt
Technical Support Manager: John Evans
VP Partnering Technologies: Jim Hawkins

Competitors:
Avaya
CTI Group
MER Telemanagement Solutions

A supplementary document to a mutual fund's prospectus that contains additional information about the fund and includes further disclosure regarding its operations. Also, known as "Part B" of the fund's registration statement.

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