Augmentum Value-Added Software Services and Automated Test Framework Reduce Testing Cycle Time by 90%.

Foster City, CA — May 26, 2005 — Augmentum, Inc., a leading provider of value-added software services, announced today that Jack Ahn, vice president, operations, presented at PalmSource's Mobile Summit & DevCon 2005. Augmentum and PalmSource shared the results from a year-long collaboration, including data on the impact of their jointly-developed automated test framework on test productivity. "I am very pleased with Augmentum's collaboration in our efforts to build an object oriented automated test framework and the concurrent automation of thousands of manual test cases. Our regression cycles have gone from days and weeks to hours," said Steven Glass, vice president, engineering, PalmSource. "We like the speed and quality of Augmentum's China team and the minimal amount of oversight they required from PalmSource."

"PalmSource's desire to bring best practices to their product development lifecycle that can speed up delivery and increase quality is consistent with the Augmentation Model™ that Augmentum uses to engage customers," said Jack Ahn.

About Augmentum
Augmentum offers value-added software development services to its customers worldwide. We augment our clients' teams as their extension, utilizing leading edge development tools and technologies, as well as proven processes, to create commercial-quality software. Our management has decades of collective experience outsourcing commercial software and solutions. Augmentum, Inc. is headquartered in Shanghai, China and Foster City, California. We have grown to over 450 people worldwide in two years since our founding, and won the Red Herring Asia Top 100 award in 2005. For more information, please visit www.augmentum.com or call (650) 578-9221.

For more information contact:
Lisa Carnochan
Augmentum, Inc.
650-578-9221 x104
lisa.carnochan@augmentum.com