Hires Industry Veteran to Lead Sales Growth in Emerging IT Services Market CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Patni Computer Systems, a global IT services provider, announced today the addition of Dr. Sanjay Savla, a former vice president and global service delivery executive at Computer Science Corporation (CSC), to Patni's Infrastructure Management Services (IMS) Business Unit as senior vice president and business unit head. Dr. Savla brings more than 18 years of IT industry experience and executive, global leadership capabilities managing global infrastructure, database and applications. As senior vice president and business unit head, Dr. Savla is responsible for building and growing the Infrastructure Management Services business worldwide and implementing strategic service offerings for a portfolio of FORTUNE 1000 companies. Infrastructure Management Services is a relatively untapped market opportunity. Industry analyst firm Gartner estimates that the size of the global Infrastructure Management Services market is estimated to lie between $86 billion to $150 billion. Patni has developed an established IMS practice over the last several years that leverages a global delivery model and deep domain experience to serve a growing need from a worldwide client base. "Infrastructure Management Services represents one of the most promising but underdeveloped market opportunities in IT Services, which Patni intends to seize upon by adding to our wealth of domain experts," said Satish Joshi, Chief Technology Officer, Patni Computer Systems. "Dr. Savla has overseen multi-million dollar IT transformations for worldwide enterprises, making his global services experience an ideal fit to help Patni reach its ambitious goals in this sector." "I am excited to join Patni's Infrastructure Management Services team at a time when the possibilities in this market are just beginning to be uncovered," said Dr. Savla. "Patni already has a strong foothold in this marketplace, and I look forward to leveraging my own experiences to expand on their best-in-class services and solutions." Patni provides comprehensive services to enable enterprises to scale their IT infrastructure to support business growth. As companies grow, managing global networks, databases and applications becomes a formidable task. Patni's Infrastructure Management Services offers a complete portfolio of solutions and services for managing enterprise IT infrastructures. Patni's services enable clients to reduce the total cost of IT operations, focus IT resources on core business activities and improve uptime and system availability. About Patni Computer Systems: 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. DATASOURCE: Patni Computer Systems CONTACT: Tony Viola of Patni Computer Systems, +1-617-354-7424 x 8255, or ; or Barbara DeConto of Text 100 Public Relations, +1-617-399-4923, or , for Patni (USA) Web site: http://www.patni.com/

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