Patni and i2 Enter into an Alliance to Jointly Market i2 Master Data Management Solutions

Business Wire, Oct 5, 2005

DALLAS & MUMBAI -- Patni Computer Systems Ltd. (Patni), one of India's leading IT services companies, and i2 Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:ITWO) today announced an alliance to provide industry customized solutions using i2 Master Data Management (MDM) solutions. Through this alliance i2 and Patni intend to combine their data management expertise, world class application integration and architecture capabilities, as well as industry specific process knowledge.

The Patni and i2 alliance is intended to deliver Master Data Management solutions to help companies better manage enterprise data across disparate systems and business processes. i2 MDM is designed to enable enterprises to control and synchronize master data and obtain better visibility, planning, and decision making. Synchronized master data can improve supply chain management, purchasing decisions, inventory management, financial control, and after-sales service. It is also designed to enable enterprise-wide processes such as new product introduction, and build composite applications.

"As part of this partnership, we will be able to build customized solutions using the i2 portfolio and help our customers achieve more efficient business operations," said Patni Senior Vice President, Milind Padalkar. "i2 MDM combined with Patni's domain expertise in target verticals -- especially retail and manufacturing -- can help address the disparate data location issues of our clients. These solutions are designed to improve business efficiency, minimize data redundancy and enable companies to effectively face market changes and global competition."

"We believe i2 MDM solves a problem facing just about every company in every vertical market. It is attractive to a multitude of companies because it can be rapidly deployed to leverage existing technology investments while allowing for future growth," said i2 President, Solutions Operations, Pallab Chatterjee. "Patni works closely with very large organizations in the manufacturing, financial services and insurance spaces. We believe that this partnership can help i2 leverage Patni's experience in these verticals to add greater value to customers."

About Patni

Patni Computer Systems Limited (BSE:PATNI COMPUT, NSE:PATNI) 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 10,000 and multiple offshore development facilities across eight cities; Patni has 24 international offices across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Patni has registered revenues of US$ 326.6 million for the year 2004. 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 please visit http://www.patni.com/.> Patni 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 Patni and i2 Enter into an Alliance to Jointly Market i2 Master Data Management Solutions 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.

About i2

i2 helps business leaders make better supply chain decisions. i2's flexible next generation solutions are designed to synchronize demand and supply across ever-changing global business networks. i2's innovative supply chain management tools and services are pervasive in a wide cross-section of industries; 19 of the AMR Research Top 25 Global Supply Chains belong to i2 customers. Learn more at www.i2.com.