October 11, 2005 - Las Vegas

MindTree extends its support to Mercury BTO Enterprise

To significantly enhance the scope of its Testing Services to global clients

Las Vegas, October 11

MindTree Consulting, an international IT Services company, today announced that it would support Mercury BTO Enterprise™, the industry’s first integrated suite of business technology optimization (BTO) offerings designed to help customers optimize the business outcomes of IT.

MindTree’s Testing Practice provides value-added testing services around Mercury BTO Enterprise components such as Mercury WinRunner®, Mercury QuickTest Professional™, Mercury LoadRunner® and Mercury TestDirector™. To help customers ensure effective deployment of these tools, MindTree will further strengthen its pool of Mercury-certified professionals.

MindTree provides testing services to IT organizations of its global clients, helping them deliver high quality products and solutions. MindTree delivers these services through a combination of consulting, implementation, and automation offerings. The clients have access to world class testing experts, methodology, frameworks and tools including those from third parties.

“We are seeing an extremely high level of interest in outsourced testing services for India. We believe building strong alliances with industry leaders like Mercury is a key part of our strategy to address this need. Mercury has taken very positive steps to provide a localized alliance enabling support in India. This will go a long way in helping us enhance the value that we offer to our clients,” said MindTree Consulting President and CEO, IT Services, Krishnakumar Natarajan.

About MindTree Consulting

MindTree Consulting is an international IT company that delivers affordable business and technology solutions through global software development. Co-headquartered in Somerset, NJ and Bangalore, India, the company approaches technology initiatives in a business context, with the industry knowledge of a seasoned management team and employees exceptionally skilled in technology, business analysis and project management.  MindTree Consulting develops and tests applications to help companies enhance their enterprise operations.  The company also delivers R&D services and designs re-usable building blocks for hi-tech companies. MindTree is the world's youngest company to be assessed at Level 5 in both CMMi and P-CMM.  MindTree has been ranked among the top five Great Places to Work in 2004 in a study conducted by Grow Talent Company and Businessworld.  MindTree has also been rated as one of the Best Employers in India for the second consecutive year in 2004 by Hewitt Associates. For more information, please visit www.mindtree.com.

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