CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Patni Computer Systems (BSE:PATNIBSE:COMPUTBSE:NSE:BSE:PATNIBSE:NYSE:BSE:PTI), a leading global IT consulting and services provider, received the 'Frost & Sullivan Customer Service Leadership Award in the IT Services Market for 2006.' Patni received this award for demonstrating exceptional responsiveness to customer needs, continually focusing on both long- and short-term customer profitability goals, and displaying flexibility in tailoring offerings to suit customer businesses. Speaking at the award ceremony in Mumbai, Alok Shende, Vice President - ICT Practice, Frost & Sullivan said, "With an industry-focused, go-to-market strategy, Patni has the unique ability to integrate technology knowledge and domain expertise with business insight, helping their customers achieve tangible efficiencies. Patni constantly innovates to bring greater value to its clients through deep technology skills and strong focus on business solutions with robust process frameworks. Patni has emerged as the clear winner, amongst significant competition from other tier 1 players, demonstrating excellence in customer service leadership." Accepting the award Vijay Khare, Chief Delivery Officer & EVP, Patni said, "Our commitment to transform our customer's business has been recognized. Patni's relentless focus on long-term relationships and value addition to client business has resulted in this success. We provide a powerful combination of domain, process and technology expertise supported by a global delivery infrastructure that customers leverage for meeting their business objectives." Frost and Sullivan used interviews with all market participants and conducted extensive secondary research of proprietary data. Frost & Sullivan analysts also tracked competitor revenue and market share within the industry. The competitors were then compared and ranked. Specific criteria were used to ascertain the final competitor ranking in each industry. For technology awards, the technologies and research projects were compared using customer base demands. In addition, factors such as feasibility of product launch, likelihood of customer acceptance and acceptance rates, and estimated time to market were also taken into consideration. About Frost and Sullivan: Frost & Sullivan, a global growth consulting company, has been partnering with clients to support the development of innovative strategies for more than 45 years. The company's industry expertise integrates growth consulting, growth partnership services, and corporate management training to identify and develop opportunities. Frost & Sullivan serves an extensive clientele that includes Global 1000 companies, emerging companies, and the investment community by providing comprehensive industry coverage that reflects a unique global perspective and combines ongoing analysis of markets, technologies, econometrics, and demographics. For more information, visit http://www.frost.com/ 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. Patni has consistently received global recognition in delivering value through innovation in IT to its clients. In a global survey by Forrester Research earlier this year, Patni received the highest customer satisfaction rating among Indian offshore supply chain solution providers and was ranked among the top 10 globally. The Brown-Wilson's BLACK BOOK OF OUTSOURCING too ranked Patni at #6 in the list of Best Managed Global Outsourcing Vendors for 2006. 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. DATASOURCE: Patni Computer Systems Limited CONTACT: Tony Viola of Patni Computer Systems, +1-617-354-7424 ext. 8255, ; or Barbara DeConto of Text 100 Public Relations for Patni, +1-617-399-4923, Web site: http://www.patni.com/

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