Datanautics Launches Indian Development Center with Planetasia Partnership.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 15, 2004

Datanautics, a leading provider of eBusiness analytic solutions that help companies effectively use the Internet to build long-term, multi-channel customer relationships, today announced development expansion on a third continent. Datanautics Inc. and Planetasia, (a Microland Group company) have signed an agreement to form and operate the Datanautics Indian Development Center. Planetasia has established the offshore delivery and technology center for Datanautics and will partner in areas of product development, professional services and remote management of Datanautics applications.

P. K. Karnik, Datanautics CEO, commented on the partnership, "Planetasia provides the experience and expertise required to expedite the extension of our current technical team at the Indian development center. The new center is currently staffed and operational." Datanautics customers also will continue to be served by development centers in Stirling Scotland, and Santa Clara, CA.

Jawahar Bekay, Planetasia's CEO, stated, "We are delighted to be partnering with Datanautics. Our Offshore Development Centre model provides significant advantages to companies that are looking to leverage offshore capabilities while enhancing value delivery to their customers. Datanautics' choice of Planetasia as their offshore partner is an affirmation of the increasing relevance of our model and further strengthens our commitment to being the offshore development partner of choice to global independent software vendors."

About Planetasia

Planetasia.com Ltd (www.planetasia.com) is a Microland promoted company and is India's first and leading e-technology off-shore outsourcing company. It provides world-class technology consulting, application development and technology enabling services to the global enterprise. Founded in 1997, the company today is a 350-person strong organization with offices in Chicago, San Jose, Stamford, London and Hong Kong with the Corporate Headquarters and offshore delivery centre at Bangalore, India. Its unique blend of Technology Focus, Teamwork and Temperament allows it to consistently deliver tangible business results to global customers. With proven competencies in software engineering, technology consulting, innovative architecture and design and usability engineering, it delivers cost-effective, high quality solutions to clients in US, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific.

About Datanautics

Datanautics solutions transform volumes of complex online customer and enterprise data into actionable information that executives and managers use to drive key business decisions and improve their return on technology investments. Customers include industry leaders such as Citicorp (NYSE:C), Eastman Kodak (NYSE:EK), Macy's (NYSE:FD), Lycos Europe (Frankfurt:LCYE.F) and Deutsche Telecom (AMS:0DTEG.AS).

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