Augmentum(TM) Wins Award for Risk Management at China Outsourcing Summit

SHANGHAI, China and FOSTER CITY, Ca., Dec. 22 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ --

Augmentum, a value-added software development outsourcing services provider,

today announced that they had won the Buyer’s Choice Risk Management award

at the 2006 China Outsourcing Summit. This award is particularly significant

because it is decided by a vote of the over 120 invited CIOs and IT

department managers who attended the December 13-15 event in Shenzhen, China.

“The Risk Management award recognizes operational excellence, and the

ability to mitigate the key types of risk in IT outsourcing; operational

disruption risk, data risk, quality risk, and reputation risk,” said Frank

Yu, Augmentum President and COO. “Augmentum, from our founding, has always

put the protection of our customers’ operations and their IP security as a

top priority in our culture. We believe this award recognizes our efforts,

and the culture that has led Augmentum customers such as Microsoft, Intel,

and Motorola to entrust us with high level, critical, full life cycle

software development work.”

The China Outsourcing Summit is produced by Vision Events(R), a Gartner,

Inc. (NYSE: IT) company.

About Augmentum

Augmentum offers value-added offshore software development services to

its customers worldwide. Augmentum engineers augment their clients’ teams

as an extension, utilizing leading edge development tools and technologies,

as well as proven processes, to create commercial-quality software. The

management team has decades of collective experience outsourcing commercial

software and solutions. Augmentum, Inc. is headquartered in Shanghai and

Beijing in China and in Foster City, California. The company has grown to

800 people in China out of 850 worldwide in three years since its founding

and won the inaugural Red Herring Asia Top 100 award in 2005. For more

information, please visit http://www.augmentum.com or call +1-650-578-9221.

About Vision Events

Vision Events, a Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) company, is a leading producer

of highly focused business events that bring Resellers and End Users together

with leading and emerging Vendors in Private Boardroom Appointments to form

strategic partnerships and secure new business in the technology sector.

Additional information about Vision Events can be found at

http://www.visionevents.com .

About Gartner

Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) is the leading provider of research and analysis

on the global information technology industry. Gartner serves more than

9,000 clients, including CIOs and other senior IT executives in corporations

and government agencies, as well as technology companies and the investment

community. The Company focuses on delivering objective, in-depth analysis

and actionable advice to enable clients to make more informed business and

technology decisions. The Company’s businesses consist of Gartner Research

and Events for IT professionals; Gartner Executive Programs, membership

programs and peer networking services; and Gartner Consulting, customized

engagements with a specific emphasis on outsourcing and IT management.

Founded in 1979, Gartner is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, and has

over 3,900 associates, including more than 1,200 research analysts and

consultants in more than 75 countries worldwide. For more information, visit

http://www.gartner.com .

For more information, please contact:

Lisa Carnochan (USA)

Augmentum

Tel: +1-650-578-9221 x104

Email: lisa.carnochan@augmentum.com

Belinda Qin (China)

Tel: +86-21-5131-4277 x431

Email: belinda.qin@augmentum.com