Sonata is Mercury's 'Asia Pacific partner of the year'

BANGALORE "� October 16, 2006 "� Sonata Information Technology Ltd. (Sonata) today announced that the company has been nominated as the "Asia Pacific Partner of the Year" by Mercury Interactive. Sonata was recently honored with this award at 'Mercury World', held during October 8-11 at Las Vegas. The US-based Mercury Interactive Corporation (OTC: MERQ) is the global leader in Business Technology Optimization (BTO).

Sonata and Mercury forged a partnership in 2004, to resell and distribute Mercury's BTO products in the Indian market. Over the past two and a half years, Sonata has made substantial investments in delivering Mercury's Quality Management solutions through a two-tier distribution model across six regions in India. Sonata has been instrumental in helping grow Mercury's business in India, with their extensive distribution network and technical strengths.

"We're delighted at being recognized as the Partner of the Year for Mercury in the Asia-Pacific region. Sonata's relationship with Mercury is based on strong fundamentals of partnership, and this recognition bears testimony to the mutual commitment from both teams. With this award, we look forward to providing value-added offerings to Mercury clients and taking the success even further," said Sujit Mohanty, Director, Sonata Information Technology Ltd.

"Success of Business Technology Optimization in India has been driven by our commitment to help customers optimize the business outcomes of IT. Sonata, our partner in India, has been instrumental in reaching out to a wider customer base, understanding their needs and delivering on this commitment using Mercury solutions," said T. Srinivasan, Managing Director, Mercury India. "Sonata's focus and contribution to the Mercury business has led to this recognition, and we look forward to continued success and greater achievements", he added.

ABOUT SONATA

Sonata Information Technology Ltd. is the business solution, product marketing and IT consulting company based in Bangalore, India. Sonata has positioned itself as a prominent value-added distributor of software products in the Indian market, and is the front-runner in most of the business lines it operates in. Sonata is also a dominant ERP and CRM implementation partner, and has broad-based ERP offerings in the SMB and Enterprise segments. In the consulting and services space, Sonata has long-standing relations with its key clients. For further information, please visit www.sonata-infotech.co.in

ABOUT MERCURY

Mercury Interactive Corporation (OTC: MERQ), the global leader in business technology optimization (BTO) software, is committed to helping customers optimize the business value of information technology. Founded in 1989, Mercury conducts business worldwide and is one of the largest enterprise software companies today. Mercury provides software and services for IT Governance, Application Delivery, and Application Management. Customers worldwide rely on Mercury offerings to govern the priorities, processes and people of IT and test and manage the quality and performance of business-critical applications. Mercury BTO offerings are complemented by technologies and services from global business partners. For more information, please visit www.mercury.com

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