Maximizes Consulting and Administration Profits Through Patni Expertise CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Patni Computer Systems (BSE:PATNIBSE:COMPUTBSE:NSE:BSE:PATNIBSE:NYSE:BSE:PTI) today announced that Kitcoff-APSI, a full-service employer sponsored retirement plan consulting and administration firm, has opted for Patni's Defined Contribution BPO Services. Patni's Defined Contribution BPO provides the flexibility and speed necessary to support Kitcoff-APSI's aggressive growth plans in the retirement plan administration space. Kitcoff-APSI chose Patni for its broad spectrum of insurance and technology expertise. Patni will assist Kitcoff-APSI's existing business in the annuity and life space, with domain knowledge that will extend into the brokerage space as Kitcoff-APSI increases its market share within this segment. Additionally, Patni's technology expertise has helped Kitcoff-APSI smoothly transition to the InvestLink platform, following the recent merger of Kitcoff and APSI. "At Kitcoff-APSI we have consistently worked to improve the efficiency of our processes so we can focus on providing improved and broader services to our customers," said Dr. Michael Campo, CEO and Owner Proprietor of Kitcoff- APSI. "Like Kitcoff-APSI, Patni's Defined Contribution BPO suite stands out because of its scalability and ability to support future growth and change, while continuing to improve performance." Bill Budde, senior vice president and head of the Insurance Business Unit, Patni said, "The small and medium business segment is among the fastest growing and needs technology and industry expertise support to be successful. Today, Patni's established success within the SMB sector, combined with our ability to commit dedicated financial technology will help players like Kitcoff-APSI to continue on their path to success." Launched in June 2005, Patni's Defined Contribution BPO Service is specifically designed for companies expanding their offerings into lucrative defined contributions segments such as 401(k) plan administration. The service employs a "reverse ASP" model that leverages the customer's existing IT infrastructure, eliminating the burden of migrating to an unknown administrative platform. About Patni Patni Computer Systems Limited (BSE:PATNIBSE:COMPUTBSE:NSE:BSE:PATNIBSE:NYSE:BSE:PTI) is a global IT Services provider servicing Global 2000 clients. Patni caters to its clients through its industry-focused practices, including insurance, manufacturing, financial services, telecommunications, and its technology- focused practices. With an employee strength of over 11,000 and multiple offshore development facilities across eight cities; Patni has 23 international offices across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Patni has registered revenues of US$ 450 million for the year 2005. Patni's service offerings include application development, application maintenance and support, packaged software implementation, infrastructure management services, product engineering services, business process outsourcing and quality assurance services. Committed to quality, Patni adds value to its client's businesses through well-established and structured methodologies, tools and techniques. Patni is an ISO 9001: 2000 certified and SEI-CMMi Level 5 organization, assessed enterprise wide at P-CMM Level 3. In keeping with its focus on continuous process improvements, Patni adopts Six Sigma practices as an integral part of its quality and process frameworks. For more information on Patni, visit http://www.patni.com/. Safe Harbor Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in earnings, our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services including those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies in which Patni has made strategic investments, withdrawal of governmental fiscal incentives, political instability, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, and unauthorized use of our intellectual property and general economic conditions affecting our industry. Additional risks that could affect our future operating results are more fully described in our Red herring filing. The company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the Company. First Call Analyst: FCMN Contact: DATASOURCE: Patni Computer Systems CONTACT: Brenda Chroniak of Text 100 for Patni Computer Systems, +1-617-399-4984, ; or Colin White of Patni Computer Systems, +1-617-914-8337, Web site: http://www.patni.com/

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