Honored by Global Services and neoIT in the 2009 rankings

Mumbai, March 09, 2009: Patni Computer Systems (BSE: PATNI COMPUT, NSE: PATNI, NYSE: PTI), a leading global IT and BPO services provider, today announced that it has been ranked No. 8 among the ‘Top 10 Best Performers in IT Services’ and ranked No. 7 among the ‘Top 10 Best Performers in IT Infrastructure Services’. The survey conducted by Global Services, an integrated media brand, and neoIT, a leading offshore advisory and management firm, included a panel of international experts assessing companies across geographies. Patni is also featured in the prestigious list of Top 100 innovative service providers of the year, which honours global companies that demonstrate leadership, innovation and outstanding performance in information technology.

Commenting on the achievement, Mr. Jeya Kumar, Chief Executive Officer, Patni said, “Patni’s inclusion in the ‘Global Services 100’ is a testimony to our delivery excellence and our customer centric culture. We are happy to be recognized in our efforts to provide our clients with innovative technology solutions and consistent results.”

“The ‘Global Services 100’ is like an index of globalization in the services industry. This year’s list comprises companies headquartered in 19 countries, with customer locations in over 30 countries, and service delivery locations in 31 countries. A company that figures in this list bears testimony to the fact that it can serve global customers from multiple locations”, says Ed Nair, Editor, Global Services.

“The ‘Global Services 100’ Study, in its 5th year, has become the industry standard for identifying leading companies from around the world who are making an impact in the field of global services. We congratulate this year’s field, especially the organizations that have demonstrated functional and geographic excellence and were selected to the category specific ‘Top 10 Lists’,” added Eugene Kublanov, CEO, neoIT.

Instituted 5 years ago, the ‘Global Services 100’ honors companies in 11 categories and evaluates them on the basis of their size, customers and skills which includes depth and breadth of offerings, delivery capability, quality initiatives and verticals covered. The top 100 list and the rankings in the various categories are based on a scientific methodology including a weighted scoring scheme which is assigned to address specific strengths and capabilities.

About Patni
Patni Computer Systems Limited (BSE: PATNI COMPUT, NSE: PATNI, NYSE: PTI) is a global provider of IT Services and business solutions, servicing Global 2000 clients. Patni services its clients through its industry-focused practices, including banking, financial services (BFS) and insurance (I); manufacturing, retail and distribution (MRD); life sciences; communications, media and utilities (CMU), and its technology-focused practices.

With an employee strength of 15,000; multiple global delivery centers spread across 11 cities worldwide; 23 international offices across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific; Patni has registered revenues of US$ 719 million for the year 2008.

Patni’s service offerings include application development and maintenance, enterprise application solutions, business and technology consulting, product engineering services, infrastructure management services, customer interaction services & business process outsourcing, quality assurance and engineering services.

Committed to quality, Patni adds value to its clients’ businesses through well-established and structured methodologies, tools and techniques. Patni is an ISO 9001: 2000 certified and SEI-CMMI Level 5 (V 1.2) 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.

Patni leverages its vast experience spanning three decades; deep domain expertise; full-spectrum services; and suites of IP-led solutions, methodologies and frameworks; in being an effective business transformation partner to its clients.

For more information on Patni, visit http://www.patni.com.

About Global Services
Global Services, a media platform by CyberMedia, facilitates the global service delivery for customers and service providers of IT and business-process outsourcing services, and provides cost-effective marketing solutions to the service providers in this industry. A multishore team spanning the U.S.A. and India drives the Global Services brand. The Global Services brand is an integrated media platform that includes the website globalservicesmedia.com and global seminars.

About CyberMedia
CyberMedia, now in its 26th year, is South Asia's first and largest specialty media house, with fifteen publications (including Dataquest, DQ Channels and DQ Week, PCQuest, Voice&Data, Global Services and DARE) in the infotech, telecom, consumer electronics, biotech and entrepreneurship areas, and is a media value chain including Internet (http://www.ciol.com), events and television. The group's media services include market research (IDC India), job board (CyberMedia Dice), content management, multimedia, and media education.

CyberMedia also publishes BioSpectrum Asia from Singapore and Global Services from the U.S.A., the first Indian magazine titles to be published from outside the country for a global audience.

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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.