Skelta Software Honored with Microsoft Regional Winning Customer Award for Inspiring Customer Loyalty With Winning Technology Solutions

Bangalore, Karnataka, India—July 14 2006 — Today at the 2006 Microsoft Partner Program Awards, Skelta Software announced it has won the regional Winning Customer Award for outstanding competitive efforts in Asia Pacific (APAC) The company was chosen  from a field of top regional Microsoft Partners in Asia Pacific (APAC) for delivering market-leading solutions that highlight the benefits of working on the Microsoft platform. The award winners will be recognized at a ceremony July 12 in Boston at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference.

Sanjay Shah, CEO said “Skelta has all along maintained that aligning our efforts with Microsoft has been one of the key drivers for our growth.  We are gratified by this award as it is recognition of the strategic value that our customers derive from our solutions.  We have been working with Microsoft for the past few years, and this award further strengthens our commitment to technologies on the Microsoft framework."

Awards were presented in a number of categories, with winners chosen from a pool of more than 2,300 entrants worldwide. Skelta Software was recognized for its successful implementation of a Microsoft-based solution, versus utilizing the technology of other vendors, that resulted in significant benefits to customers. Award winners were required to have implemented solutions involving successful migrations, custom software development or completing customer upgrades that leverage Microsoft technology.  Skelta Software won this year’s award by expertly developing a customer solution that exemplifies the benefits of working on the Microsoft platform rather than those of other technology vendors.

Skelta Workflow.NET 2004 is a completely embeddable, 100% web-based workflow engine built on the Microsoft .NET framework. A BPM workflow software that is built on today's cutting-edge Microsoft .NET, XML, and Web services technologies, Skelta Workflow.NET enables business users and developers to design and deploy BPM workflow applications using software tools with which they are already familiar. Skelta Workflow.NET 2004 has been designed for use by both software developers and business users.

“It is a privilege to recognize Skelta software as a regional winner of this year’s Winning Customer Award for Asia Pacific (APAC region,” said Allison Watson, Vice President of the Worldwide Partner Sales and Marketing Group at Microsoft). “It is this level of commitment in reaching out to customers and underscoring the value of the Microsoft Windows integrated software platform that enables continued success for us and for our partners. We applaud Skelta software for its efforts to implement solutions that successfully met its customer’s IT needs by migrating its systems to take advantage of the Microsoft platform.”

The Microsoft Partner Program Awards recognize Microsoft Partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the past year. Multiple awards are distributed in four categories: Partner of the Year for Technology Innovation, Partner of the Year for Sales and Marketing, the Specialization Excellence Awards and the Microsoft Initiative Awards, which include the Winning Customer Award and the Customer Experience Award.

About Skelta
Skelta Software is an innovative software product company specializing in enterprise-wide Business Process Management (BPM) and Workflow solutions for small to large-sized businesses worldwide. Its flagship product, Skelta Workflow.NET 2004 is a BPM workflow software that is built on cutting-edge Microsoft .NET, XML, and Web services technologies. It is also the world's first embeddable workflow engine. Skelta enables business users and developers to design and deploy workflow applications using software tools with which they are already familiar. In addition, Skelta enables businesses to leverage on their existing investments in Microsoft technologies such as InfoPath, BizTalk Server, and SharePoint.
Skelta Workflow.NET has won several awards at industry forums such as Best of TechEd in the Software Components category at Microsoft Tech-Ed, MSD2D's People's Choice Award and NASSCOM IT Innovation 2005 Award. Skelta has also been named one of Asia 's top 100 companies by Red Herring magazine.

For more information on Skelta and its products, visit www.skelta.com. Skelta may also be contacted on phone at +1 (703) 652-8359 and on email at sales@skelta.com.

For Media enquiries, contact:
Kalpa Shah, VP - Marketing
Tel: 91 (80) 2552-2996
email: publicrelations@skelta.com