Leading India Information Technology Firm Becomes Apriso Implementation Partner

LONG BEACH, Calif. & NEW DELHI, India--March 10, 2005--Apriso(R) Corporation and HCL Technologies (NSE:HCLT.NS) have formed an alliance appointing HCL as an implementation and services partner for Apriso FlexNet(TM) application software. HCL Technologies will be engaged in FlexNet implementation projects both in the Asia-Pacific region and throughout the world on behalf of Apriso as well as HCL customers. Apriso and HCL will jointly focus on the automotive, life sciences and electronics manufacturing & supply services (EMS) industries. The HCL Manufacturing IT Group provides complete lifecycle services, from concept to deployment, in the areas of factory applications such as manufacturing execution and automation systems; enterprise application services such as product data management (PDM), product lifecycle management (PLM) supply variability and enterprise integration; and performance applications such as performance dashboards, business analytics, plant maintenance and asset utilization.

"Increased outsourcing of manufacturing to Asia will see the need for manufacturing IT applications across the supply chain from sourcing, manufacturing to distribution," said Mr. A. Vasudevan, General Manager for HCL's Manufacturing IT solutions. "The partnership between HCL and Apriso brings together varied strengths in serving the market needs in both Asia-Pacific and the world. In HCL, Apriso has a partner that can deliver complete life cycle services fulfilling needs across the supply chain. In Apriso, HCL has a partner who brings a state of the art Web-services based product -- FlexNet -- with the ability to deliver complete life cycle services through a single integrated platform."

"India is a rising powerhouse for manufacturing exports," said Nelson Nones, Apriso's Asia-Pacific Vice President and General Manager. "Our alliance with HCL, one of India's premier information technology houses, allows Apriso to tap this growing market while benefiting from worldwide demand for business process outsourcing services where India excels."

The strategic alliance with HCL Technologies extends Apriso's international network of FlexNet reseller and implementation partnerships. Other preeminent consulting firms that have partnered with Apriso include Neoris, in Mexico and the Latin American markets, and Toyo Business Engineering in Japan.

About HCL

HCL is one of the leading, Global, Technology and IT enterprises with annual revenues of around $2.0 billion, with IT Products and Services contributing to revenues of over $1 billion. The 29-year-old group, founded in 1976, is one of India's original technology garage start up companies. Its range of offerings span Product Engineering, Technology and Application Services, BPO, Infrastructure Services, IT Hardware, Systems Integration as well as distribution of technology and telecom products. The HCL team comprises 24,000 professionals of diverse nationalities, who operate from over 26 offices across 15 countries. HCL has global partnerships with several leading Fortune 1000 firms, including several IT and Technology majors.

About HCL Technologies

HCL Technologies is one of India's leading global Technology & IT services companies, providing software- led IT solutions, BPO and infrastructure management services. Making a foray into the services domain in 1997-98, HCL Technologies focuses on technology and R&D outsourcing, working with clients in areas at the core of their business. The company leverages an extensive offshore infrastructure and its global network of 26 offices in 15 countries to deliver solutions across select verticals including Banking, Insurance, Retail & Consumer, Aerospace, Automotive, Semiconductors, Telecom and Life Sciences. For the twelve-month period ended 31st December 2004, HCL Technologies along with its subsidiaries had revenues of $664 million and 20,249 employees. For more information, please visit www.hcltech.com.

About Apriso

Apriso is the pioneer of a new class of enterprise software that for the first time enables global corporations to define, operate, and monitor supply, production and distribution processes in real time, without limits. Apriso's software, known as FlexNet(R), provides such fine-grained visibility and control of both execution processes and key performance indicators that it is an ideal platform for accomplishing the most pressing business initiatives of today: compliance, product genealogy, in-line production sequencing, real-time, RFID-based asset management, lean supply, successive refinement (kaizen), six-sigma quality levels, demand-driven supply (the "Dell" model), and the adaptive enterprise. Apriso operates in 9 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific, and its rapidly-growing customer base consists of more than 140 customers and over 400 installations worldwide. For more information, visit the Apriso Web site at www.apriso.com.

Additional background information is available at www.apriso.com.