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Prague, Czech Republic – March 1, 2010 – Ness Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSTC and TASE: NSTC), a global provider of information technology solutions and services, announced today the completion of a major milestone in a strategic, two-year core technology engagement at Telefónica O2 Czech Republic, the Czech Republic’s largest telecommunications provider. The multi-million dollar engagement has significantly improved the efficiency of landline service delivery, while providing Telefónica O2 a lower short- and long-term cost structure.

The engagement involves improvements to Telefónica O2 Czech Republic’s system for setting up customers’ fixed lines, including analysis of and enhancements to Telefónica O2’s customer provisioning system, technical assessment and upgrades of its user change request system, and improvements to its configuration management system, along with associated testing, documentation and other system integration services. As part of the project, Ness Technologies successfully deployed Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management to provide both a technical customer service catalogue and inventory as part of the end-to-end architecture.

In addition to greater efficiency and cost savings, the engagement is also providing a range of operational benefits to Telefónica O2 Czech Republic, including improved, guaranteed service operation; a new platform and work methodology that enable and enforce cooperation between different parts of the overall work team; and much more. Through the completion of the milestone in the two-year engagement, Ness has successfully fulfilled all the expectations of Telefónica O2 Czech Republic, completed the transfer of the know-how, and provided high quality and timely services according to the defined Service Level Agreement (SLA).

“We have partnered with Ness for over 5 years on various engagements and over that time Ness has consistently demonstrated that they are a professional, reliable and flexible supplier; and this is one of the reasons why Ness won this strategic outsourcing contract,” said Jiri Genzer, Provisioning System Manager at Telefónica O2 Czech Republic. “This engagement has allowed us to significantly improve efficiency, thanks to deep domain expertise at Ness.”

“We brought to Telefónica O2 Czech Republic, as with all of our customers, the three strategic factors which we believe characterize all Ness’ successful customer relationships: long-term strategic thinking directly related to underlying business issues, deep domain expertise sourced from around the world, and high value-added outsourcing of customer IT operations,” said Mirko Kalous (photo), general manager of Ness Czech. “As an international IT service provider with a strong regional presence, we are able to leverage thousands of experts worldwide for the benefit of our customers. We are happy that Telefónica O2 trusts the knowledge and experience we have provided during our five year partnership.”

World’s largest technology company and No. 1 software provider plan to
advance cloud computing with industry’s most integrated technology stack
PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 13, 2010

HP and Microsoft Corp. today announced a three-year agreement to invest $250
million to significantly simplify technology environments for businesses of
all sizes.

The companies plan to deliver new solutions that will:

- be built on a next-generation infrastructure-to-application model;

- advance cloud computing by speeding application implementation; and

- eliminate complexities of IT management and automate existing manual
processes to lower the overall costs.

This agreement represents the industry’s most comprehensive technology stack
integration to date – from infrastructure to application – and is intended
to substantially improve the customer experience for developing, deploying
and managing IT environments.

With this strategic partnership, HP and Microsoft will collaborate on an
engineering roadmap for data management machines; converged, prepackaged
application solutions; comprehensive virtualization offerings; and
integrated management tools. Delivered through the industry’s most extensive
sales and partner network, these dynamic IT solutions will provide:

- Increased business efficiency through solutions that respond to
changing business requirements by seamlessly converging server, storage,
network and application resources in a highly automated, self-managed
environment.

- Improved application performance, reliability and availability for
some of the industry’s top business applications, including Microsoft
Exchange Server and Microsoft SQL Server, by creating a deeply optimized
“machine” environment. This is achieved through turnkey, pre-integrated
server, storage, networking and application packages. These data management
and email machines provide “push button” simplicity in deployment and
management.

- Enhanced operations through integrated, interoperable virtualization
and management tools that allow technology environments to be automatically
provisioned, managed and continuously self-tuned. Through the integration of
HP Insight Software, HP Business Technology Optimization software and
Microsoft System Center, enterprise customers use a unified management
solution to automate application deployment along with
infrastructure-to-application monitoring. This integration also delivers
power and performance optimization, while ensuring interoperability in a
heterogeneous data center environment.

- Investment protection and low total cost of ownership, enabling
customers to deploy systems with confidence. The joint solutions are built
on industry standards and designed to utilize existing data center
investments, all managed through a common framework. This approach is
designed to enable customers to integrate private or public cloud computing
models as their business requires. HP and Microsoft will collaborate on the
Windows Azure platform, with HP and Microsoft offering services, and
Microsoft continuing to invest in HP hardware for Windows Azure
infrastructure.

“Driving innovation helps businesses establish a competitive advantage,”
said Mark Hurd (photo), HP chairman and chief executive officer. “This collaboration
will allow HP and Microsoft to offer our customers transformative technology
that will reduce costs, generate business growth and accelerate innovation.”

The new infrastructure-to-application model from HP and Microsoft will be
delivered as integrated offerings for large, heterogeneous data center
environments as well as through solutions designed for small and midsize
businesses. Solutions are available immediately, with new offerings being
introduced throughout the next three years.

“This agreement, which spans hardware, software and services, will enable
business customers to optimize performance with push-button simplicity at
the lowest-possible total cost of ownership,” said Steve Ballmer (photo), chief
executive officer, Microsoft Corp. “Our extended partnership will transform
the way large enterprises deliver services to their customers, and help
smaller organizations adopt IT to grow their businesses. Microsoft and HP
are betting on each other so our customers don’t have to gamble on IT.”

Driving opportunity for HP and Microsoft Frontline channel partners
worldwide

Under the terms of the expanded partnership, the two companies will increase
their global investment by 10 times to drive new opportunities for the
32,000 HP and Microsoft Frontline channel partners. Partners will support
customers in modernizing their environments through a combination of
software and hardware infrastructure-to-application packages and services.
Partner benefits include:

- Quicker time to revenue with simplified and shortened sales cycles
resulting from Smart Bundles and all-inclusive packages as well as new
offerings that provide add-on application and service sales opportunities.

- Flexible financing options through HP Financial Services, which will
enable resellers to drive customer adoption by making technology solutions
more accessible and easy to acquire.

- Increased support with dedicated field resources focused on presales
initiatives and extensive partner training.

- Jointly funded worldwide marketing campaigns, lead-generation programs
and sales tools, available at www.hpmspartners.com.

Driving customer success with HP professional services and Microsoft
Services

To speed return on investment (ROI) and increase business value, the
integrated portfolio is complemented by new design, implementation and
support services for the joint solutions. Through more than 11,000
Microsoft-certified HP professionals worldwide, HP Services, in partnership
with Microsoft Services, will support the entire integrated hardware and
software solution from simple implementations to the most critical
enterprise infrastructure. Service offerings include:

- Strategy workshops, ROI and business value services. Other available
services include architecture, design, pilot, global implementation, support
for server virtualization and management solutions, client virtualization,
data management and cloud computing as well as per-seat fixed-price
Microsoft Exchange Server upgrade/migration services.

- Application modernization services for large-scale online transaction
processing (OLTP) implementations.

- Planned customized Business Intelligence Solutions that provide faster
time to application value.

- Assistance for customers who seek to run their technology on-premises,
outsourced or via the cloud.

Industry Luminary and Leading Enterprise Software Analyst Joins Infor Team

ATLANTA – January 7, 2010 – Infor, the leading provider of business software for mid-market customers, today announced that software industry veteran Bruce Richardson (photo), who is currently chief research officer at AMR Research, will join Infor as chief strategy officer.  Richardson will report to Jim Schaper, Infor chairman and chief executive officer (CEO).  In addition to his role with Infor, he will serve as a strategic advisor to Golden Gate Capital, Infor’s largest shareholder.

“As a student of the market for the last 30 years, I understand the dynamics of the business software marketplace – the forces that are driving the industry and shifting the balance of power in favor of customers,” said Richardson.  “Infor gets it.  Their leadership is changing how business software providers engage with customers.  It’s amazing what Infor has been able to accomplish in seven years – a large and loyal customer base, a global footprint, an exciting lineup of products, a great management team and a bright future with enormous growth opportunities.”

As chief research officer at AMR Research, Richardson oversaw all aspects of analysis at the company, including opinions and reporting of key trends and strategies in areas such as ERP, supply chain management, cloud computing, service-oriented architectures, software-as-a-service, software appliances, virtualization and visualization.  Richardson has covered and analyzed the enterprise software market for decades and made many early market predictions that have since proven accurate, such as the rise of the advanced planning market and the evolution of manufacturing resource planning (MRP) to enterprise resource planning (ERP).

Richardson’s insights and perspectives on the enterprise software market, and particularly his knowledge of customer needs and requirements, will continue to differentiate Infor as a software provider that consistently listens to its customers.  Richardson will continue to share his insights and opinions at www.infor.com in his “An Insider’s View” weekly blog.

“Throughout the last two decades, there is no individual who has more closely followed every significant business software company in the world than Bruce Richardson. His joining our world-class team is a significant endorsement,” said Schaper.  “Bruce is also one of the best trend-spotters in the business and will play a key role as we continue building our business through organic and acquisitive growth.”

Infor Chairman and CEO Jim Schaper Calls Hiring of Robert Humphrey: “A signal to the marketplace … We’re taking a stand.”

ATLANTA – November 9, 2008 – Infor, the leading provider of enterprise software for mid-market customers, today announced that Robert Humphrey has joined Infor as its chief marketing officer, reporting to Chairman and CEO Jim Schaper.

“Infor is redefining how enterprise software companies engage with customers and the market, and it’s time we build a recognized brand that reflects our innovative nature and competitive spirit,” said Jim Schaper, Infor’s CEO.  “Robert’s experience in building global brands and developing strong customer relationships, in addition to his creative energy and unique marketing skills, will serve Infor and our customers well as we turn this market on its ear.  There is a better way for customers who feel powerless in dealing with inflexible enterprise software companies and for those who understand that rigid technologies are not advancing their business interests.”

With more than 30 years of business experience, Humphrey has held various leadership positions, most recently as senior vice president of worldwide field marketing at McAfee, executive vice president – corporate strategy and chief marketing officer at Citadel Security Solutions (acquired by McAfee) and senior vice president of marketing for i2 Technologies. Humphrey also co-founded a strategic consulting and investment banking firm, and served as CEO for start-up software company OpenDesign, Inc.

Prague, November 4, 2009 – HP announced today the launch of the new products, solutions and services that offer companies greater flexibility during irregular market fluctuations. The introductions allow faster innovation and change of company size, depending on the current business needs and market situation.

In recent years, economic cycles were more predictable and companies could adapt their business plans and investments in technologies more easily. Simply put, companies planned either growth or reduction. Today these simple rules do not apply anymore.

The new research conducted by HP shows that more than 90% of managers in competence of business decisions at the highest level think that business cycles are going to be unpredictable also in the next few years. As a result of these assumptions, 80% of them believe that companies must be much more flexible in approach to commercial activities and technologies.

Due to rapid market changes and contradictory measures that are now the market standard, companies success depends especially on effective use of technology. Eighty-four percent of senior managers are convinced that the key criterion for success of companies is innovation, and 71% would adopt more investments in technologies, if they could see that these investments meet their requirements in terms of time needed for the market introduction and the use of the business opportunities.

“Strategic investments in technological facilities are crucial for the emergence of the innovations needed for the further development of companies,” said Jan Kamenicek (photo), CEO of HP Czech Republic. “Relying on the portfolio of products, services and solutions from HP companies can build a modern technological environment, which not only meets all of their current requirements, but it will also provide added value to the future.”

News from HP enable enterprises to thrive even in volatile market conditions, thanks to strategic development of the technological environment that provides improvements in:
• View angle – improving competitiveness and reducing the risk of market decline through the control of business data, information control, and business analysis.
• Innovation – speeding up the time needed to obtain the proceeds from the sale of new goods and services while reducing the cost of time spent inefficiently, opportunities and effort. This can be achieved through the use of appropriate technologies that can solve very specific problems of customers.
• Flexibility – Return to the “top of market shape” after the reduction or expansion of the company, which is quickly achieved by using the converged infrastructure.

Angle
HP Neoview Advantage, a newest version of the data warehouse platform HP Neoview enterprise, provides customers with reliable control of their business activities in real time and enables them to quickly respond to specific contracts and processes. The new version of HP Neoview Advantage offers a dramatic improvement in the performance of the data warehouse, its capacity, optimizing claims for warehouse space and enhanced manageability. HP Neoview Advantage also reduces cost of ownership of the components meeting the industry standards and is delivered in the pre-debugged configuration optimized for the specific storage conditions.

Innovation
HP helps it’s customers with innovation and creating the new business opportunities. These are objectives for instance of Nissan North America, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications and Telstra, which recently entered into several contracts with HP Enterprise Services division. HP shall establish a flexible and scalable environment that will bring more innovation, business opportunities and facilitate the implementation of the business plan.

Flexibility
HP also introduced architecture HP Converged Infrastructure architecture – technology environment that is much faster than before adapting to dynamically changing business processes and needs.

“HP’s Converged Infrastructure solves a fundamental problem of the current IT, where companies spend the largest part of IT expenditure in the maintenance of the existing systems instead of investment leading to the innovation,” said Pavel Klimuskin (photo), director of HP Enterprise Storage, Server and Networking division (HP ESSN). “The new model of converged infrastructure from HP effectively combines various data storage, servers and network elements into customized functional unit with a single administration, which saves time, energy, space and other costs.”

HP Converged Infrastructure enables:
• Deploy a new application environment during normal operation by the organized management of shared services.
• Reduce the costs of network elements and the complexity of the system through a flexible network infrastructure.
• Optimize the use of the system using shared virtual resources.
• Significantly more effective use of electrical energy in the data centers with the intelligent data centers network technology (data center smart grid technology).

Consultancy services for the converged infrastructure (HP Converged Infrastructure Consulting Services) in addition help customers quickly and smoothly move from an “isolated” technologies tied to a specific product to a highly flexible converged infrastructure. The new range of services, built on the extensive experience of HP’s shared services, use of the cloud computing and data center transformation projects, allows customers to assemble, test and implement their own highly scalable infrastructures.

HP Enterprise Services division also provides a number of external IT services for those customers who would like to use the HP’s converged infrastructure, but do not want to build it themselves. Companies can outsource the entire infrastructure or a part depending on their current business needs. HP collaborates with an extensive network of partners, which has currently expanded by a number of independent software vendors, thus the customers can find providers of business applications based on the converged infrastructure in each region, which HP officially operates.

If customers choose to deploy a converged infrastructure, HP can also take advantage of flexible financing solutions through HP Financial Services Division, a subsidiary of HP, dealing with leasing and asset management. HP Financial Services makes it easy to deploy technologies to customers, leading to meet their rapidly changing business requirements.