L&T Infotech and IBM announce strategic

partnership in BPM space

Mumbai (India), December 06, 2010: L&T Infotech, one of India’s leading global IT services
providers, has announced a strategic partnership with IBM in the Business Process
Management (BPM) space, using its WebSphere Lombardi Suite of products. Through this
partnership, L&T Infotech and IBM aim to offer BPM solutions including business process
modeling, implementation, integration solutions and services to its clientele. Leveraging
Lombardi, L&T Infotech is launching customizable BPM solutions in the areas of Banking &
Financial Services like corporate loans, know your customer, credit card issuance, accounts
payable and insurance ( claims processing, underwriter workflow).

Mr. Abhay Chitnis, Vice President & Head of Technology, L&T Infotech, says, “With rapid
evolution of IT in recent years, enterprise IT landscape has become increasingly complex. All
organizations are striving to improve agility and scalability of the intra and inter-enterprise
eco-systems. Our IBM partnership is in line with our constant endeavor to provide added
value to our clients. The leadership position enjoyed by IBM Lombardi in the BPM space
coupled with L&T Infotech’s domain knowledge and modeling accelerators, provides a
unique value proposition to our clients, especially in Banking & Financial Services sector.”

Mr. Pradeep Nair, Director - Software Group - IBM India/South Asia, adds, "Business Process
Management (BPM) software and services from IBM help organizations optimize business
performance by discovering, documenting, automating, and continuously improving business
processes to increase efficiency and reduce costs. We know that the combination of IBM
Lombardi’s class-leading BPM technology and L&T Infotech’s depth of industry expertise will
deliver superior value and most importantly, near-term return on investment, to our
clients.”

Leading analysts have predicted the BPM market size figure of $2.6 billion globally by 2011.
With agility and scalability at the core of its approach, L&T Infotech has a dedicated
practice that focuses on Business Process Management, Enterprise Application Integration
and Business-to-Business technologies to cover the entire gamut of integration services. L&T
Infotech's Lombardi Practice has a large pool of trained professionals working on IBM
Lombardi BPM technology. L&T Infotech provides services for process design & consulting,
architecture planning, development, implementation and rollout. The Practice has also
developed a set of tools/accelerators which helps reduce the development time. In addition,
the Practice also has developed a set of artifacts/process handbooks for consulting,
implementation, migration and maintenance on Lombardi products.
L&T Infotech offers BPM services in several vertical domains such as Banking & Financial
Services (BFS), Energy & Petrochemicals, Product Engineering Services (Telecom), Insurance
and Manufacturing. L&T Infotech’s BFS Business Unit focuses on providing business solutions
to leading banks & financial institutions across the globe. Its Domain Competency Cell
comprises Subject Matter Experts who are former bankers, chartered accountants, dealers
with specialization in areas such as capital markets, wealth management, payments,
corporate banking and retail banking. L&T Infotech leverages its Business-to-IT Connect in
financial services to build effective business solutions that can be deployed to resolve real-
time business challenges. Leveraging IBM Lombardi, L&T Infotech BFS has developed
JukeBox+, a domain-centric solution to allow clients to jumpstart their business processes
integration & automation activity. With JukeBox+, organizations are able to gain better
visibility into their operations, improve straight-through processing rates and become more
cost-efficient.
About L&T Infotech
Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd (L&T Infotech), one of the fastest growing IT Services
companies, is ranked by NASSCOM as 8th largest Indian software & services exporter from
India and is amongst NASSCOM’s Top 20 IT-BPO Employers in India (FY2009-10). It is also
ranked 7th in DATAQUEST-IDC top 20 IT Best Employers Survey 2010. A wholly-owned
subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro, a US$ 9.8 billion engineering, manufacturing & financial
services organization with global operations, L&T Infotech is differentiated by its unique
Business-to-IT Connect, which is a result of its rich corporate heritage.

We offer comprehensive, end-to-end software solutions and services in the following industry
verticals: Banking & Financial Services; Insurance; Energy & Petrochemicals; Manufacturing
(Consumer Packaged Goods/Retail, High-tech, Industrial Products, Automotive), and
Product Engineering Services (Telecom). Our new emerging verticals include Media &
Entertainment and Life sciences & Healthcare. We also deliver business solutions to our
clients in the following horizontals/Service Lines: SAP, Oracle, Infrastructure Management
Services, Testing, Consulting and Business Process Services. Our other service offerings are:
Business Analytics, Legacy Modernization, Applications Outsourcing, Architecture Consulting,
Enterprise Integration, Service Oriented Architecture, Systems Integration and PLM.
(www.Lntinfotech.com)

About IBM
For more information on all of the new products and services or for details on how IBM is
helping clients and Business Partners to make smarter, faster decisions by using BPM and
SOA, visit: www.ibm.com/smartwork/businessagility.

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L&T Infotech media contact: IBM media contact:

Anand Aashay Vaidyanathan Venkataraman

+91 982059 9393 +91 98450 33306
anand.aashay@Lntinfotech.com vaivenka@in.ibm.com