Patni Computer Systems Ltd. (Patni) (BSE: 532517, NSE: PATNI, NYSE: PTI), a leading global IT and BPO services provider, today announced that the company has achieved Silver Partner status in the OneShield Dragon Development Partner Certification Program. OneShield announced the program in September of this year.

OneShield, Inc. is the developer of OneShield Dragon®, an innovatively modern, rules- and tools-based, metadata-driven policy management solution. The partner certification program aims to ensure development partners, including systems integrators and individual contributors, maintain consistent standards for successfully implementing, extending and maintaining the Dragon application and toolset.

Patni has worked with OneShield for several years, providing IT services for the company and its customers. Patni is partnering with OneShield to provide more strategic services on OneShield initiatives.

“We are proud to welcome Patni as a Silver Partner in our new certification program,” said OneShield’s director of insurance strategy and alliances, Steve Forte. “Patni has proven itself as a skilled, high-quality partner, providing exemplary service. Solid partnerships like ours with Patni allow OneShield to concentrate on our core mission of providing quality enterprise software to our customers.”

“This is a great honor,” said Ganesh Iyer, senior vice president and global head, Banking Financial Services and Insurance at Patni. “OneShield has opened many doors for Patni in the Policy and Compliance (P&C) insurance sector, and we look forward to working closely with OneShield and its customers for many years.”

OneShield’s Dragon Development Partner Certification Program has four certification levels: Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond.

About Patni

Patni Computer Systems Limited (Patni) (BSE: 532517, NSE: PATNI, NYSE: PTI) is a global provider of IT services and business solutions, servicing global 2000 clients. Patni services its clients through its micro-vertical focus in banking, financial services (BFS) and insurance (I); manufacturing, retail and distribution (MRD); life sciences; communications, media and utilities (CMU).

With an employee strength of over 16,000; multiple global delivery centers spread across 16 cities worldwide; 30 international offices across the Americas, Europe- Middle East-Africa (EMEA), and Asia-Pacific; Patni has registered revenues of US$ 656 million for the year 2009.

Patni’s service offerings include application development and maintenance, enterprise software & systems integration services, business and technology consulting, product engineering services, infrastructure management services, customer interaction services & business process outsourcing, quality assurance and engineering services.

Committed to quality, Patni adds value to its clients’ businesses through well-established and structured methodologies, tools and techniques. Patni is an ISO 9001: 2008 certified and SEI-CMMI-Dev Level 5 (V 1.2) organization. In keeping with its focus on continuous process improvements, Patni adopts Six Sigma practices as an integral part of its quality and process frameworks.

Patni leverages its vast experience spanning three decades; deep domain expertise; full-spectrum services; and suites of IP-led solutions, methodologies and frameworks; in being an effective business transformation partner to its clients.

For more information on Patni, visit www.patni.com.

About OneShield

OneShield provides browser-based solutions to automate the sales and service of insurance and bond products for insurance carriers, major brokers, and managing general agents. Its flagship product, OneShield Dragon®, is a tools-based, data-driven insurance underwriting, policy administration, rating and workflow engine. Dragon provides configurable and modifiable options to meet today’s goals and to adapt to future demands. OneShield has offices in Westborough, MA, Glastonbury, CT and Gurgaon, India.

For additional information, visit www.oneshield.com

Safe Harbor:

Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in earnings, our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services including those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies in which Patni has made strategic investments, withdrawal of governmental fiscal incentives, political instability, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, and unauthorized use of our intellectual property and general economic conditions affecting our industry. The company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the Company.