Advanced Synergic, DACG tie-up
(Times of India 17/1/2000, Business Standard 13/1/2000, Business Line 14/1/2000, Economic Times 11/1/2000)

January 7, 2000 -- DA Consulting Group Pte Ltd, the Asia-Pacific headquarters of DACG (Nasdaq: DACG), a worldwide leader in providing end-user services to Global Fortune 1000 companies, and ASM today announced their strategic partnership in which ASM shall represent the various offerings of DACG in India and the ASIAN countries.

ASM will assist DACG in developing their e-business offerings like cataloguing, Web-trading solutions and vertical portals. ASM will also represent DACG to market, sell, implement and support these solutions in the South Asia region.

"DACG is happy to partner with ASM whose management I have personally known for many years," said Mr. Dilip Keshu, President, Asia Pacific, and DACG. "ASM's skills complement our own well. ASM's experience in enterprise application configuration/implementation and onsite/offshore development when applied to DACG's product and services, will offer clients a more complete and comprehensive offering."

"The strategic relationship with DACG will strengthen ASM's offerings in India and overseas in the area of e-commerce and end user support," said Rabindra Srikantan, Managing Director, ASM.

In this context, DACG and ASM will cooperate to promote the following initiatives: