UST Global Alliances and Partnerships:

At UST Global, we realize that alliances are important for delivering value to our customers and are very essential to our success. Our alliance strategy is targeted at partnering with leading technology providers, which allows us to take advantage of emerging technologies in a mutually beneficial and cost-competitive manner. All of our alliances and partnerships are based on—and are an extension of—our core values. Our passion is to become trend-setters in creating innovative ways to meet difficult or challenging issues. We do this through an extended network of professional companies and organizations on behalf of our clients. We pursue long-term partnerships that bring maximum benefit to the maximum number of people.

We intend to continue to develop alliances that complement our core competencies.

Partner Nature of Partnership

Business Objects SI Partner Business Objects is a global business intelligence (BI) software company, with more than 43,000 customers - including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500 - and a network of more than 3,000 partners and resellers. Business Objects’ software helps organizations gain better insight into their business, improving decision-making and enterprise performance. As a SI Partner to Business Objects, UST Global has full access to the Business Objects product suite which includes: data integration, reporting, analysis, performance management and applications. This allows UST to expand the breadth of our service offerings and enables our customers to derive ultimate value from their business information.

Cisco Registered Partner UST Global is a Cisco Registered Partner. Our partnership with Cisco enhances our already mature service offerings in the IT Infrastructure service solution. Cisco is a leader in networking solutions and technology innovation. Our partnership provides a common platform and allows us to combine our unique strengths to meet and address a broader range of our customer needs on a global basis.

IBM Advanced Partner IBM is a globally integrated enterprise that targets the intersection of technology and effective business. To help clients achieve growth, effectiveness, efficiency and the realization of greater value through innovation, IBM draws upon the world's leading systems, software and services capabilities. UST Global is an IBM Advanced Partner. As an IBM Advanced partner, UST and IBM combine technical and business innovation to create unique business solutions to our clients. Our alliance has been the core enabler of our mainframe and AS/400 technologies software solutions. Our clients are able to tap into our expertise in providing integrated e-Business solutions across different industry domains that are built on the IBM WebSphere software platform. UST Global is also a premium services partner for IBM’s Tivoli product suite in the Asia Pacific region. Recently, UST received "The Best Performing Tivoli Partner" award from IBM® in recognition of our efforts in Asia Pacific for promoting the Tivoli software brand.

Informatica Solution Partner Informatica data integration software and services empower organizations to access, integrate, and trust all their information assets, giving organizations a competitive advantage in today’s global information economy. Informatica’s recent releases also delivers new products and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings. UST Global is an Informatica partner since 2006. We work with Informatica to jointly identify and pursue specific business objectives. The program focuses on teamwork, profitability, and success for both Informatica and UST Global.

Metastorm Premier Business Partner With a focus on enterprise visibility, optimization, and agility, Metastorm offers market-leading software for Enterprise Architecture (EA), Business Process Analysis (BPA) and Business Process Management (BPM). As an integrated product portfolio, Metastorm Enterprise™ allows organizations to improve business results by unifying strategy, analysis and execution. Metastorm is bringing together these critical disciplines to enable an understanding of enterprise architecture and strategy, accurate impact and opportunity assessment, effective process execution, and accelerated value realization for organizations worldwide. For more information on powering strategic advantage with Metastorm Enterprise, visit www.metastorm.com. UST Global is a premier services partner for Metastorm. UST partners with Metastorm to deliver robust solutions via their suite of enterprise products. The partnership focuses on adding value in client relationships and extending knowledge in the domain. UST’s Business Process Management (BPM) framework provides strategy through execution and BAM (Business Activity Monitoring).

Microsoft Gold Business Partner As a Gold Business Partner of Microsoft Corporation, UST extensively leverages Microsoft technologies to develop cost-effective business solutions that combine our proven process oriented on-site/offsite business model with Microsoft's development tools, Internet technologies and scalable platforms.

Netezza Systems Integrator Partner Netezza is the market-leading provider of enterprise-class data warehouse appliances that deliver breakthrough performance and ease-of-use at a fraction of the cost of traditional data warehouses. The Netezza Performance Server® (NPS) family of products enable Fortune 1000 customers with terabytes of dynamic, detailed data to dramatically simplify even the most complex Business Intelligence (BI) initiatives. Netezza’s patented streaming architecture has placed processing power at the disk level, so data analysis occurs at the source at streaming speeds — analyses that took hours now take just seconds. This means a dramatic increase in productivity across the enterprise and faster time to value for business initiatives. Netezza appliances are changing the way organizations leverage information,creating a powerful analytic foundation for a new generation of business analytics that improve strategic decision-making and drive results. UST Global has entered into a strategic partnership with Netezza to jointly help our clients unleash the power of the Data Warehouse Appliance.

Oracle OPN Partner Oracle is the world’s leading enterprise software company that offers customers scalable, reliable, secure and integrated software solutions that improve transactional efficiencies, adapting to an organization’s unique needs and allows better ways to access and manage information at a lower total cost of ownership. As an Oracle OPN partner, UST has access to Oracle's premier products, education & training, technical support services that enables us to provide our clients with unique service offerings and an enhanced value-proposition.

Relativity Technology Partner Relativity Technologies is a leader in Enterprise Application Modernization and Application Portfolio Management solutions. Its Modernization Workbench software platform aligns clients' existing software assets with their core business requirements. The platform abstracts business and technical insights from application portfolios, across a diverse array of environments. Once uncovered, this information permits organizations to identify and act on modernization activities that align applications with business processes and needs. This may include redevelopment, packaged application replacement, SOA redesign, or ongoing application sustaining. Our partnership with Relativity provides industry-leading legacy modernization solutions to our clients. This includes application enhancement, migration and porting, application re-engineering, and Web-enabling services. These services utilize the latest tool suites from Relativity, ensuring annual savings for our clients.

TIBCO TPN Partner TIBCO is a leading provider of infrastructure software and provide a broad range of standards-based infrastructure software solutions that help organizations achieve the benefits of real-time business. Their software gives customers the ability to constantly innovate by connecting applications and data in a service-oriented architecture, streamlining activities through business process management, and giving customers the information and intelligence tools they need to make faster and smarter decisions. UST Global is a TIBCO TPN partner. Leveraging this partnership we have established a TIBCO Center of Excellence that provides EAI solutions based on the range of TIBCO products. As a result of the mentoring and training that UST provided to its resources leveraging the partnership, our staff is equipped to effectively gather and analyze requirements and implement TIBCO solutions.

For more information on our alliance program or if you would like to partner with UST Global, please send an email to alliances@ust-global.com