Vergil announce foray into Australian market by forming a strategic partnership with Japara Solutions, a leading J2EE and Web Services solutions provider.

Japara Solutions, a leading J2EE and Web Services based Australian IT consultancy and solution provider and Vergil Technology (P) Limited, a company focused on providing comprehensive integration solution in the emerging SOA/ Web services space, announced a strategic partnership to address customer needs in Australia and Asia Pacific market.

13 March 2003 - Chennai, India - Japara Solutions, a leading J2EE and Web Services based Australian IT consultancy and solution provider and Vergil Technology (P) Limited, a company focused on providing comprehensive integration solution in the emerging SOA/ Web services space, announced a strategic partnership to address customer needs in Australia and Asia Pacific market.

Japara Solutions will market, resell, and implement Vergils complete suite of products and also provide consultancy and customization services to deliver comprehensive, scalable, and robust integration solutions for customers. Vergil's suite of products comprise of a combination of out-of-the-box adapters to legacy/ packaged applications, business process management tools, accelerated development toolkits, and a Web Services Orchestration Suite.

We are seeing a growing interest in Web Services across all industries in Australia and we partner with global leaders in this space," said Paul Pogonoski, CTO at Japara Solutions in Australia. "Given that we specialize in enterprise integration using standards-based technology, it's important that we can offer our customers complete solutions. The next wave in the SOA/ Web Services paradigm is Orchestration of Web Services that adds value further up the Web Services stack, thus lending itself to the creation of transactional business processes. This partnership with Vergil, whose solution stack based on Web Services, is part of our abiding strategy to provide increased value to our enterprise customers, in their high-technology endeavors."

Vergil is an early and active participant in the emerging industry wide trend called the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and is proud to partner with Japara Solutions. Vergil has built a range of tools, products, components and accelerated application development toolkits to help "next generation enterprises" realize the SOA paradigm. With its expertise and focus on integration and newer technologies like Web Services, Vergil is ideally poised to enhance the Value Proposition of any enterprise integration solution. Vergils product portfolio is a prefect fit for Japaras solution offerings, as they are complementary in nature and leverage the inherent strengths of both companies." said N. Shekar, CEO of Vergil Technology (P) Limited.

Vergil is focused on providing IP led solutions through a portfolio of pre-packaged components, which are part of a web services solutions stack that Vergil develops and owns through its focus on the software integration market segment. The Web Services Orchestration Suite is the companys newest offering and is designed to help customers leverage their IT investments in an environment where most organizations have various EIS and legacy systems that hold their business logic and data. As these enterprises continue to adopt new business models, the integration of new solutions with existing assets has become increasingly arduous. With the evolving standards based approach and a service oriented architecture, Vergil has developed its suite of products to allow enterprises to be agile through rapid deployment of new business processes with very little or no development time and cost.

About Japara Solutions

Japara Solutions is an Information Technology Consulting Company with extensive experience in new age technologies, such as Web services, J2EE and the like. They offer specialist services in e-business applications, Web Services, IT Architecture, as well as a unique XML based Rules Engine. They have 20 years experience in Information Technology, with in-depth understanding of the Banking, Financial Services, and Telecommunications Industries.

In their continuing bid to provide increased value to their enterprise customers, Japara Solutions has formed several alliances and partnership with leading technology product companies such as Cape Clear, Object Connections and the like. For more information, please visit http://www.japarasolutions.com.

About Vergil Technology (P) Limited

Vergil Technology (P) Limited operations are focused on the development of standard based solutions for the Software Integration segment using the SOA paradigm. The company has deep skills around this area and works to create a solution framework using the Web Services and J2EE standards. The companys management team comprises professionals with extensive experience in the IT industry in India and internationally, with leading organizations such as Fujitsu-ICL, Sun Microsystems, Thomson Group, and Morgan Stanley. Vergil has offices in Chennai and the United States. For more information, visit the Vergil website at http://www.vergiltech.com.

For further information, please contact:

Paul Pogonoski            
Japara Solutions Pty Ltd      
Tel: +61 2 9962 5721         
Fax: +61 2 4268 3178         
Email: paulpog@japarasolutions.com    

N. Shekar
Vergil Technology (P) Limited.
Tel: +91-44-24314482/4483,
Fax: +91-44-24314481
Email: nshekar@vergiltech.com