PITTSBURGH, Dec. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Mastech, a leading North American information technology consulting firm, today announced it has joined the Business Objects Solutions Provider Partner Program for software and service providers. As a new channel partner, Mastech will further enhance its value proposition to customers by offering Business Intelligence (BI) software solutions from Business Objects.

As part of Mastech's ongoing focus on emerging technologies within the business intelligence/data warehousing (BI/DW) space, Mastech has chosen to partner with the recognized leader, Business Objects, as part of their approach to 'Achieving the Enterprise Information View' within a BI/DW environment. Together, Business Objects and Mastech combine years of product and consulting knowledge to provide strategic BI/DW solutions for clients across varied technology and business model landscapes.

Mastech Emerging Technologies practice focuses on helping clients achieve the following goals:

* Increase Data Accuracy and Consistency * Provide the Right Data to the Right People at the Right Time * Increase Productivity and Flexibility * Access data through central solutions * Reduce Complexity by reducing redundancy

By partnering with Business Objects, Mastech aligns with an organization whose technology enables its customers to incorporate BI into their operations, analyze key business trends, and make business decisions based on trustworthy, accurate data.

"The Business Objects suite of solutions maps well to our focus on BI/DW; Mastech's BI/DW consulting services focus on addressing organizational challenges, process changes, architectural requirements, and various technology choices, and ever more frequently we are finding great applicability with Business Objects' products to our clients' most complex BI/DW needs," remarked Scott Moyer, Vice President of Emerging Technology for Mastech. "While we are technology-neutral by the nature of our business, we view our new partnership with Business Objects as one with a clear best-of- breed choice for clients looking to make better business decisions."

"Mastech has a solid history of providing valuable business intelligence consulting," said Tamra Muir, Vice President of Solution Provider and distribution partners at Business Objects. "They are a great addition to the Solution Provider Partner Program. Mastech's approach, global recruiting arm, and resource management track record will help Business Objects meet the growing demand for implementation of our BI solutions."

About Mastech:

Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, iGate Mastech (Mastech) is a $130M subsidiary of the $270M global provider iGATE Corporation focused on providing comprehensive consulting services in the areas of Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing, Service Oriented Architecture/Web Services and Enterprise Resource Planning. Mastech leverages a refined global recruiting and technical resource management process to deliver upper echelon consultants who leverage deep project experience and keen understanding of the real-world, complex business challenges that drive today's technology projects. Mastech has a solid track- record in delivering on time and on budget business and technology solutions for our clients. Other areas of service include application management, project management, and eBusiness consulting. Mastech has operations throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit http://www.mastech.com/

About Business Objects:

Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company, with more than 39,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500. Business Objects helps organizations of all sizes create a trusted foundation for decision making, gain better insight into their business, and optimize performance. The company's innovative business intelligence suite, BusinessObjects(TM) XI, offers the BI industry's most advanced and complete solution for performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis, and enterprise information management. BusinessObjects XI includes the award-winning Crystal line of reporting and data visualization software. Business Objects has also built the industry's strongest and most diverse partner community, and offers consulting and education services to help customers effectively deploy their business intelligence projects.

Business Objects has dual headquarters in San Jose, Calif., and Paris, France. The company's stock is traded on both the Nasdaq (BOBJ) and Euronext Paris (ISIN: FR0004026250 - BOB) stock exchanges. More information about Business Objects can be found at http://www.businessobjects.com/.

The Business Objects logo, BusinessObjects, Crystal Reports, Intelligent Question, and Xcelsius are trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Objects in the United States and/or other countries. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

CONTACT: Christopher R. Evans, Manager of Global Marketing, Mastech,
+1-412-787-2100, or fax, +1-412-494-9272, or info@mastech.com

Web site: http://www.mastech.com/
http://www.businessobjects.com/