Cognizant Technology Solutions Awarded QAI's 'Best of Best Practices Award' at SEPG Conference.

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TEANECK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 2000

Senior member of Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie

Mellon chooses Cognizant for its successful deployment of

organization-wide quality processes and process improvement measures

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation, an e-business and application management specialist, has been awarded the "Best of Best Practices Award" by Quality Assurance of India (QAI) and the Carnegie Mellon Center for Information Systems Engineering. The Award was presented at the SEPG 2000 Conference held at Bangalore.

Mr. Pankaj Jalote, head of Computer Science at IIT Kanpur, screened the 60 nominations in four categories and shortlisted four from each. Jalote then forwarded them to Mark C. Paulk, senior member of Software Engineering Process Management at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Penn., and one of the authors of the software Capability Maturity Model (CMM).

"My choice for the 'Best of the Best' Award in the category of Best Practices is 'Audit Plan to Process Improvement--An Automated Journey,' by the quality professionals from Cognizant Technology Solutions," said Paulk. "This paper has four attributes to be commended: use of quantitative data to demonstrate the impact of process improvement actions; emphasis on timely feedback; effective use of software tools to reduce errors, decrease cycle time and automate processes, and the substantive way in which the Software Quality Assurance (SQA) evolves as an organization matures."

"This project utilized all our skills," said Emani Sarathy, head of Cognizant's Process and Quality Management Board. "We always thought it would be possible to integrate software internal audit planning, audit processes, audit follow-up, analysis of findings and process improvement suggestions, and quantitatively monitor the activities and effectiveness of Quality Reviewers' activities. We therefore developed an integrated system and effectively implemented it. This has resulted in recognition from delegates at the SEPG conference and from around the world."

About Quality Assurance India Limited

Quality Assurance India Limited, a joint venture between QAI, USA and INTECOS, India, facilitates enhanced competitiveness amongst software organizations through multi-faceted interventions. QAI India focuses on the triad of People, Process and Technology for achieving break-through performance in customer companies. QAI India's services include consulting, conducting quality-specific conferences, training, benchmarking, and conducting CMM assessments. For more information, visit QAI on the Web at http://www.qaiindia.com.

About Cognizant Technology Solutions

Cognizant delivers high-quality, cost-effective, full life-cycle solutions to complex software development and management problems. Cognizant employs more than 2,000 computer science and engineering professionals globally, including at its eight development centers in India. The company specializes in e-business and application management. Cognizant has been assessed at SEI/CMM Level 4 and is ISO 9001 certified across all of its development centers. Based on sustained revenue and earnings growth, Forbes magazine named Cognizant the best small company in its Nov. 1, 1999 listing of the 200 Best Small Companies. For more information, visit Cognizant on the Web at http://www.cognizant.com.

This press release includes statements that may constitute forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Although Cognizant believes the expectations contained in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove correct. These statements may involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the expected results. Such risks include, but are not limited to, the risk factors described in Cognizant's Registration Statement on Form S-1 and in other reports and periodic filings made from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.