Patni Joins Mainframe Migration Alliance
April 18 2006 - 10:09AM
PR Newswire (US)
Alliance to focus on seamless migration of mission-critical
mainframe applications to a Microsoft Windows-based architecture
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., LONDON, MUMBAI, India, April 18
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - Patni Computer Systems
(BSE:PATNIBSE:COMPUTBSE:NSE:BSE:PATNIBSE: NYSE:BSE:PTI) today
announced that it has entered the Mainframe Migration Alliance
(MMA), an industry representation enabled by Microsoft and industry
partners to help customers seamlessly migrate workloads off the
mainframe and onto the Microsoft Windows platform. Based on Windows
Server 2003 and Microsoft .NET technologies, the MMA helps clients
migrate their applications to the Windows platform and offers
customers the information they need to achieve the scalability,
reliability, and security achieved on the mainframe, while
delivering much greater organizational agility and significantly
lowering overall IT cost. "In many applications, mainframes no
longer make business sense," said Harish Bhat, Sr. VP of Patni's
ISV Business Unit. "The Alliance gives us the opportunity of
working even closer with Microsoft in providing the solutions
required to transition these applications to more flexible and
affordable Microsoft platforms." Patni brings over 25 years of
mainframe platform, development and engineering life-cycle
experience to the Alliance. This experience is backed by a Center
of Excellence (CoE) for Microsoft technologies that ensures Patni
is up-to-date and on top of the latest Microsoft tools and
processes needed to implement a modernization initiative. This has
enabled Patni to develop proven migration methodologies and deep
expertise in key Microsoft technologies like .NET that has helped
clients in Insurance, Financial Services, Manufacturing and Telecom
seamlessly move critical business applications to Microsoft
platforms. "We are very pleased that Patni has joined the Mainframe
Migration Alliance," said Spyros Sakellariadis, director of the
Mainframe Migration Alliance at Microsoft Corp. "Patni's mainframe
and domain expertise will benefit customers looking to transition
from monolithic legacy systems to Windows-based platforms that
accelerate product development and decision making, and achieve
better interoperability." 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 12,000 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. 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. Products and service names mentioned
herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
DATASOURCE: Patni Computer Systems CONTACT: Sriya Kodial of Text
100 for Patni Computer Systems, +1-617-399-4918, ; or Colin White
of Patni Computer Systems, +1-617-914-8337, Web site:
http://www.patni.com/
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