Survey by Independent Research Firm Shows 64% of Participants Would Recommend Patni CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Patni Computer Systems Ltd., (Patni) a leading global IT consulting and services provider, announced today, that it has received the highest customer satisfaction rating among Indian offshore supply chain solution providers, in a recent Forrester survey. The survey, "Ranking Supply Chain Management Tools and Services," conducted by Forrester Research, Inc., in June 2006, queried 167 supply chain decision makers in North America. It examined their satisfaction with supply chain software and services, as well as their plans for additional investments. With 64% of survey respondents saying they would recommend Patni to others, Patni scored the highest customer satisfaction among Indian offshore providers covered in the survey. "We are committed to entering each customer engagement with the objective of becoming a trusted partner," said Milind Padalkar, senior VP and head, enterprise solutions, Patni Computers Systems. "Our ongoing investments in the people, tools and methodologies essential to building relationships that can transform a customer's business have been duly recognized by our customers." Patni's supply chain management implementation practice provides customers with a wide array of services to support their advanced planning, scheduling, sourcing, collaboration, logistics and transportation requirements. One of the industry's largest integrated mobility solutions providers utilizes Patni's expertise in ERP production support and application delivery center work to maximize its IT budgets and refocus resources on designing new service offerings. Patni is also supporting a leading provider of specialty chemicals with global ERP production support on a 24x7 basis, as well as managing its global IT call center operations, supporting one of the largest single instances of SAP in the world. Patni has a successful global track record of building and implementing end-to-end supply chain solutions from both leading ERP vendors and vertical application providers. Its supply chain management solutions seamlessly integrate supply chain operations with diverse shop-floor applications and provide real-time integration with back-office ERP applications. 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. 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. DATASOURCE: Patni Computer Systems Limited CONTACT: For USA: Sriya Kodial of Text 100 for Patni Computer Systems, +1-617-399-4918, ; For UK: Simone Carr of Text 100 for Patni Computer Systems, +44.7974.161.190, ; or Tony Viola of Patni Computer Systems, +1-617-354-7424, Web site: http://www.patni.com/

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