Mumbai, India - December 15, 2005 - Rolta India Limited (Mumbai, India) has entered into a strategic agreement with NIIRS10 (Madison, AL, USA) for providing the GeoCue product family of geospatial process management solutions for LIDAR and general geospatial workflow management in India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Rolta has more than 70% market share in the GIS/Photogrammetry market in India and is the primary solutions provider to nodal agencies in Survey, Defence, Space, Environment, Hydrology, Telecom, Electric, among others. Rolta is also recognized as one of the world leaders in providing Geospatial Information Technology and Digital mapping services. The association with NIIRS10 will further strengthen Rolta's capabilities in providing cutting edge Geo-engineering solutions and services in large scale mapping using photogrammetry and LIDAR technologies.

LIDAR technology has revolutionized the method of collecting the finest details of the earth's surface from an aircraft fitted with a LIDAR sensor. LIDAR data processing brings about a phenomenal improvement in accuracy and resolution of details of the earth's surface and dramatically reduces the work involved in the production of Orthophotos. Bringing together several thousand man-years of geospatial technology experience with LIDAR technology understanding, Rolta is now fully equipped to offer geospatial process management solutions and enhanced services for orthophoto generation to its customers.

Lewis Graham, President of NIIRS10 said "We are very pleased that Rolta has elected to join us as a distribution partner. Rolta is a premiere supplier of solutions for complex geospatial implementations and we believe that GeoCue will provide them an excellent framework for enterprise integration."

A.D. Tayal, Jt. Managing Director of Rolta India Limited said "The agreement between Rolta and NIIRS10 will play a vital role in Rolta's enhanced participation in LIDAR technology and thereby delivering high value solutions to our esteemed customers."

About Rolta India Limited

Rolta is an Indian multinational organization well equipped to provide knowledge-based software and IT-enabled services to customers across the world. The company is India's #1 CAD/CAM/GIS solution provider and is considered amongst the top Geospatial information technology service vendors worldwide. Rolta offers end-to-end solutions and services for Geo-engineering, Plant Design Automation, Mechanical Design Automation and Product Lifecycle Management. Other offerings include value added solutions and services for Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) including integrated and web-enabled Engineering and Business applications, Smart Cards, eSecurity and Data-Warehousing/Mining. Rolta's quality standards are benchmarked to world-class levels, with top quality certifications such as BS 7799, ISO 9001:2000, BS15000 and CMM Level 5. Rolta has also been placed in the First 250 list of the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Asia-Pacific Technology Fast 500 program.

About NIIRS10

NIIRS10 supplies software tools and services for enterprise geospatial production process integration. Its core product, GeoCue, is a user extensible framework for multi-user enterprise production systems.

Source: NIIRS10, December 15, 2005.