Ness Technologies Signs $19 Million Land Registry Deal for Czech Geodetic and Cadastral Office

Ness Technologies Signs $19 Million Land Registry Deal for Czech Geodetic and Cadastral Office

PRAGUE, February 1/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ness Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSTC and TASE: NSTC), a
global provider of information technology solutions and services, announced
today that it has been awarded, as part of a public tender, a contract for
the development and testing of a large information system - a Registry of
Territories, Addresses and Properties (RUIAN) - for the Czech Geodetic and
Cadastral Office (CUZK). The system, which is valued at CZK 346.5 million,
or about $19 million, is scheduled to go live in July 2011, at which time it
will become one of the four primary registries in the Czech Republic:
territorial identification, addresses and properties, persons, rights and
obligations.

The primary goal of the registry is to ensure that all public
administration authorities use - in their mutual communication - the same
data about chosen territorial elements, which will come from a single
reference source. In addition, the registry will manage data about all
addresses of building sites assigned by municipalities, as well as some
important technical attributes of the buildings. At present, there is no
unique source of the most frequently used data in public administration. It
is a goal of the Czech public administration's eGovernment policy to use
existing government information in the most effective manner. The reference
source will be also open to the public through the internet.

The project delivers a number of key benefits:

- Substitution of duplicate and fragmented information systems of various
public authorities;

- Improvement of the quality of data used in public administration;

- Mitigating the risk of using erroneous data through central data
updates, and also through checking of reference data;

- Better protection against unauthorized data manipulation - technical
and operational measures;

- Reducing the administrative and other costs associated with public
administration;

- Improvement of service quality; expansion of the service portfolio;

- Shortening administrative processes;

- Precise definition of public official's rights and their limitations;

- Logging of all data manipulation by public officials;

- Improved awareness of persons, consumers, entrepreneurs and public
authorities;

- Reducing administrative costs for businesses; and

- Simplification of administrative procedures for the public.

"The system of registries - after its completion - will streamline our
processes significantly, because public authorities will no longer need to
tediously collate reference data from various sources," said Karel Stencel,
Vice Chairman, CUZK. "This new approach will ensure that data is used for
efficient public administration, and that citizens needing to interact with
the public administration system will no longer need to provide the same data
repeatedly. The data will be provided only once, captured in the primary
registry and - through it - transferred to all the other information systems
in public administration."

"Ness continues to build on and leverage its extensive know-how in land
and property registration - and it has been a partner to the relevant Czech
authorities for 13 years," said Mirko Kalous, Managing Director of Ness
Czech. "Our success in this tender follows a similar recent success in
Slovakia, demonstrating Ness' leading position in this segment in Central and
Eastern Europe. Our portfolio of solutions and services for government has
long been one of Ness' strengths, and the testimonials of our customers show
that Ness generates significant added value for them. We are pleased to
participate in yet another project to satisfy the needs of public
administration authorities, enterprises and the public."

About Ness Technologies

Ness Technologies (NASDAQ: NSTC and TASE: NSTC) is a global provider of
IT and business services and solutions with specialized expertise in software
product engineering; system integration, application development and
consulting; and software distribution. Ness delivers its portfolio of
solutions and services using a global delivery model combining offshore,
near-shore and local teams. With about 7,800 employees, Ness maintains
operations in 18 countries, and partners with numerous software and hardware
vendors worldwide. For more information about Ness Technologies, visit
http://www.ness.com.

Media Contact - International:
David Kanaan
Intl: +972-54-425-5307
Email: media.int@ness.com

Media Contact - Czech Republic:
Stance Communications, s.r.o.
Petr Pluhacek
Tel: +420-224-810-809
GSM: +420-725-837-673
E-mail: petr.pluhacek@stance.cz

Ness Technologies investor contact:
Drew Wright
USA: +1-201-488-3262
Email: investor@ness.com

Source: Ness Technologies Inc

Media Contact - International: David Kanaan, Intl: +972-54-425-5307, Email: media.int@ness.com ; Media Contact - Czech Republic: Stance Communications, s.r.o., Petr Pluhacek, Tel: +420-224-810-809, GSM: +420-725-837-673, E-mail: petr.pluhacek@stance.cz ; Ness Technologies investor contact: Drew Wright, USA: +1-201-488-3262, Email: investor@ness.com

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