INFOTECH and ALTEN forge Strategic Engineering Partnership to provide advanced technology solutions and global engineering delivery to EADS, parent company of Airbus.

Hyderabad, July 25th, 2008 - ALTEN Group S.A., a leading European Engineering Consulting Group headquartered at Paris and a preferred supplier of EADS, and INFOTECH Enterprises Limited (IEL), a leading India-based Technology Solutions provider headquartered at Hyderabad , have formed a strategic partnership to provide global engineering solutions to EADS.

The organizations signed a formal agreement to create an exclusive partnership specifically for EADS. By combining the domain expertise, advanced project management capability and customer know-how of ALTEN in Europe with an efficient, scalable and cost efficient offshore delivery expertise of INFOTECH in India , the collaboration will allow addressing and achieving some of the key objectives of EADS in Europe and from India . The tie-up enables high degree of scalability; world-class quality and quick response time to enable EADS to significantly improve time to market and decrease cost.

Announcing the partnership, Mr. Simon Azoulay, Chairman and CEO, Alten Group said, “We are very enthusiastic about the collaboration with INFOTECH. ALTEN and INFOTECH share a long history in the engineering aerospace community, and we believe that this new strategic partnership will strengthen the goodwill between the organizations and our combined talents will foster activities that will provide EADS with a cost effective global delivery solution".

Announcing the partnership, Mr. B.V.R. Mohan Reddy, Chairman and Managing Director, Infotech Enterprises said, “The tie-up with Alten will be of strategic advantage to both companies in offering one stop solution in aerospace Engineering Design and Avionics. This tie-up will enable us to enhance our domain expertise in the Aerospace Industry and provide EADS a unique solution”.

About INFOTECH ENTERPRISES Limited
Infotech Enterprises Limited, (listed as INFOTECENT in BSE - Bombay Stock Exchange and in NSE - National Stock Exchange), a Global Technology Solutions provider, offers Engineering Services and Geographic Information Services to manufacturing, aerospace, transportation, telecom, utilities and government customers worldwide. Infotech currently employs over 7000 professionals across 25 global locations and the organizational unit comprising of software groups in SBI, UTG and MFG are apprised for SEI CMMi Level 5 version 1.2, ISO 9001:2000, AS 9100 and ISO-27001 standards.
Visit: www.infotech-enterprises.com to know more.

About ALTEN Group
ALTEN Group, (listed as ALTEN in Paris Stock Exchange), a Leader in Europe in Engineering Consulting in high Technology since 1988, offers services globally relating to the fields of technology, computing or electronics, particularly in the areas of consulting, research and engineering, for Aerospace, Defence, Automotive, Telecom and Energy areas. ALTEN currently employs over 12000 employees (10500 high level engineers) with strong focus of business in Europe.
Visit: www.alten.fr to know more.

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Kerstin Neumann
Infotech Enterprises GmbH
Phone: +49-7152-9452-55
eMail: kerstin.neumann@infotechsw.de