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R
Systems to Acquire WebConverse, a US based technical
support company
Joins
select group of service providers having onshore &
offshore capabilities
New
Delhi, July 26, 2006: R Systems International
Ltd. (NSE: RSystems) one of the leading providers
of outsourced product development and customer support
services today announced that it has signed a definitive
agreement to acquire WebConverse, Inc. WebConverse is
a technical support company with US operations in Salt
Lake City serving the high technology sector with a
special focus on the growing mobile applications market.
WebConverse achieved revenues of US$ 5.1 million in
calendar year 2005. The estimated value of the transaction
will be a maximum of $10.7 million inclusive of earn
out payments. The acquisition is scheduled to be completed
within the next three weeks.
"This acquisition places us in a select group of
service providers having onshore & offshore support
capabilities", said Rekhi Singh, CEO of R Systems.
He added "This coupled with the domain expertise
WebConverse has in the rapidly growing mobile applications
market, strengthens our value proposition to the high
technology sector. Also, given the growth potential
of the existing WebConverse client base, we see a near
term and long term strategic benefit for all our stakeholders.
We welcome WebConverse customers and employees to the
R Systems family."
"The
combination of R Systems' software development expertise
and WebConverse's experience in supporting sophisticated
enterprise applications will create a powerful end to
end solution for our customers", said Peter Newell,
CEO of WebConverse. "Our multi-shore delivery model
will enable us to seamlessly match our resources to
our customers needs. We look forward to joining the
R Systems team and bringing the benefits of the combined
company to both our customers and our employees."
About
R Systems International Ltd
R
Systems International Ltd. founded in 1993, is one of
the leading providers of outsourced product development
and customer support services. We help companies accelerate
the speed to market for their products and services
with a high degree of time and cost predictability by
using our proprietary pSuite execution framework. Clients
can choose services specific to their needs from R Systems
iPLM suite of services. We help companies build scalable,
configurable and secure products and applications; and
help our clients support their customers for products
and services using our global delivery model. R Systems
rapidly growing customer list includes a variety Fortune
1000, government and mid-sized organizations across
a wide range of industry verticals including Banking
and Finance, High Technology and Independent Software
Vendors, Government, HealthCare, Manufacturing and Logistic
Industries. R Systems maintains five centers for Software
Excellence, and using our global delivery model we serve
customers in the US, Europe, South America, the Far
East, the Middle East and Africa.
About
WebConverse, Inc
WebConverse
Inc., headquartered in San Mateo, CA, was founded in
the year 2000 and specializes in delivering outsourced
Technical Support for mobile applications, enterprise
software, hardware, and hosted applications. WebConverse's
turnkey solutions include inbound and outbound telephone
support, email response and real-time Web-chat. WebConverse
delivers services out of facilities in San Mateo, Salt
Lake City, and India. More information on WebConverse
is available at http://www.webconverse.com.
Safe
Harbor:
This
press release contains forward-looking statements. These
forward-looking statements are subject to 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 the success of our investments,
risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in earnings,
our ability to manage growth, intense competition in
IT and consulting 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,
industry segment concentration, our ability to manage
our international operations, reduced demand for technology
and consulting services, disruptions in telecommunication
networks or system failures, our ability to successfully
complete and integrate potential acquisitions, liability
for damages on our service contracts, withdrawal of
governmental fiscal incentives, political instability
and regional conflicts, legal restrictions on raising
capital or acquiring companies outside India, and unauthorized
use of our intellectual property and general economic
conditions affecting our industry. We may, from time
to time, make additional written and oral forward-looking
statements, and we do not undertake to update any forward-looking
statements that may be made from time to time by or
on behalf of the Company.
For
further information please contact:
Nand Sardana (Tel No. 0120 - 430
3506)
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