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CUPERTINO, Calif--Chordiant Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:CHRD - News), the leading provider of Customer Experience (Cx™) software and services, and HCL Technologies announced they are collaborating to provide world class “Customer Experience” solutions to the global financial services industry. For HCL, a leading integration company, the partnership will leverage the strengths of both organizations in the financial services market and will provide Consulting and System Integration services to global customers. The new partnership focuses on:

Augmenting the reach of Chordiant solutions among HCL customers, globally; Developing deeper vertical solutions in financial services, enabling both organizations to grow their service offerings and add more value for joint customers; Building a robust Professional Services practice around Chordiant solutions responsible for customer product delivery, implementation and support.

With HCL’s recent transformation journey, the focus has been on creating customer value in select industry verticals that combine domain depth, innovative multi-service offerings and business models that focus on output and outcome. This philosophy is also reflected in its partnership with Chordiant, which will increase HCL’s services portfolio.

For Chordiant, the partnership will help HCL offer more domain-specific solutions in the market, where the Chordiant ‘Customer Experience’ platform and solution set resonates with the transformational value that HCL is adding to its customers. The partnership will accelerate the pace of adoption and implementation of Chordiant solutions through the development of solution accelerators, and a clearly defined implementation methodology, thereby significantly increasing customer return on IT investment.

As financial services organizations continue to move away from a siloed product focus and progress towards becoming customer-centric organizations, the need for robust, intelligent, context-sensitive applications and solutions is more apparent than ever before. This calls for analytics capabilities to reside within an application on a real-time offered basis within the front-office, as opposed to the back-office. The Chordiant platform, Cx Enterprise Foundation, fulfills this implicit need by combining customer analytics with front-office solutions. The HCL-Chordiant partnership, in addition, will address the existing challenges that the financial companies face in servicing their customers throughout the customer life-cycle.

Premkumar S, Corporate Officer & Global Head – Financial Services of HCL Technologies stated, “The HCL-Chordiant partnership is in line with our strategy of leveraging partnerships, assets, tools, products and deep domain expertise to provide more ‘value’ to our customers. Moreover, Chordiant’s focus on financial services as an industry segment will add to HCL’s current strength in financial services and fuel HCL’s vision of non-linear growth by delivering value through product partnerships.”

Steven R. Springsteel, Chairman, CEO and President, Chordiant said, “This partnership will enable us to expand our global customer base with significant focus on the Asia-Pacific region. With HCL as a partner, Chordiant will get access to the best professional services practices, talent and tools to provide superior business analysis, process management, technical and systems integration skills, all which can be called upon to deliver the best value to our customers.”

About Chordiant Software, Inc.

Chordiant helps leading global brands with high-volume customer service needs deliver the best possible customer experience. Unlike traditional business applications, Chordiant Customer Experience (Cx) front-office solutions blend multi-channel interaction management with predictive desktop decisioning, enabling companies to capture and effectively anticipate and respond to customer behavior in all channels, in real-time. For global leaders in insurance/healthcare, telecommunications and financial services, this deeper understanding cultivates a lasting, one-to-one relationship that aligns the most appropriate value proposition to each consumer. With Chordiant Cx solutions, customer loyalty, operational productivity and profitability reach new levels of return. For more information, visit Chordiant at www.chordiant.com.

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Chordiant's products are detailed under "Risk Factors" in Chordiant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2007

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About HCL Technologies

HCL Technologies is one of India's leading global IT Services companies, providing software-led IT solutions, remote infrastructure management services and BPO. Having made a foray into the global IT landscape in 1999 after its IPO, HCL Technologies focuses on Transformational Outsourcing, working with clients in areas that impact and re-define the core of their business. The company leverages an extensive global offshore infrastructure and its global network of offices in 18 countries to deliver solutions across select verticals including Financial Services, Retail & Consumer, Life Sciences & Healthcare, Hi-Tech, Telecom and Media & Entertainment (M&E). For the quarter ended 31st December 2007, HCL Technologies, along with its subsidiaries had last twelve months (LTM) revenue of US $ 1.6 billion (Rs. 6715 crores) and employed 47,954 professionals. For more information, please visit www.hcltech.com

About HCL Enterprise
HCL Enterprise is a $4.7 billion (Rs. 19,215 crores) leading Global Technology and IT enterprise that comprises two companies listed in India - HCL Technologies & HCL Infosystems. The 3-decade-old enterprise, founded in 1976, is one of India's original IT garage start-ups. Its range of offerings span Product Engineering, Custom & Package Applications, BPO, IT Infrastructure Services, IT Hardware, Systems Integration, and distribution of ICT products. The HCL team comprises approximately 53,000 professionals of diverse nationalities, who operate from 18 countries including 360 points of presence in India. HCL has global partnerships with several leading Fortune 1000 firms, including leading IT and Technology firms. For more information, please visit www.hcl.in.

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