Pegasystems Announces New Cloud Offering for Dynamic Business Applications

Leading BPM Provider Leverages Amazon Web Services and Capgemini to Enable
Businesses to Leverage Cloud Computing for Business Agility
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(Business Wire)--
Pegasystems Inc., (NASDAQ: PEGA), a leader in Business Process Management (BPM)
software solutions, today announced its new SmartPaaS™ Platform-as-a-Service
(PaaS) offering to enable business people to quickly develop and deploy dynamic
business applications with all the benefits of cloud computing. This offering
was developed with the support of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Capgemini.

This new integrated offering packages Pegasystems` business-driven Build for
Change® technology with best-in-class middleware solutions from IBM on the
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) with Capgemini`s global Cloud
Computing Center of Excellence. With advanced tools for management, security,
federation, and composition, Pegasystems marries business agility with the cost
advantages of Amazon Web Services on demand technology infrastructure, providing
instant scalability and elasticity. Organizations looking to quickly implement
business transformation projects can engage their business people with the added
benefits of rapid deployment and provisioning. Pegasystems` benchmarks
demonstrate the promise of implementing dynamic business applications in half
the time and at half the cost of traditional on-premise solutions.

"Our customers are demanding ever increasing business agility, which is driving
a dramatic growth in the number of BPM applications with fluctuating usage
patterns," said Alan Trefler, Chairman and CEO of Pegasystems. "Pegasystems`
SmartPaaS, leveraging Amazon Web Services, IBM, and Capgemini, will enable our
customers to scale their infrastructure on-demand while significantly improving
speed of project completion that drives down the total cost of ownership."

"We are pleased that Pegasystems can extend to their corporate clients a cloud
infrastructure that addresses the integration, security, and performance needs
that their businesses require," said Terry Wise, Director of Business
Development for Amazon Web Services. "The combination of Pegasystems and the AWS
cloud provides enterprises of all sizes the ability to quickly and cost
effectively improve and innovate their business processes."

"We are very pleased to be adding Pega's SmartPaaS to our portfolio of cloud
offerings, and helping clients to increase their business agility and
substantially lower costs," said Simon Plant, Product Lead for Cloud Computing
at Capgemini. "This new offering combines highly flexible software with an
elastic infrastructure to put business technology right into the hands of the
enterprise users, and further drive innovation for rapid change."

For more information, please visit the Pegasystems SmartPaaS information page.
The Pegasystems SmartPaaS solution was also selected by Forrester for the 2009
Technology Innovation Showcase at its IT Forum conference taking place at The
Palazzo in Las Vegas from May 19 - 22, 2009.

About Pegasystems

Pegasystems, the leader in Business Process Management, provides software to
drive revenue growth, productivity and agility for the world's most
sophisticated organizations. Customers use our award-winning SmartBPM® suite to
improve customer service, reach new markets and boost operational effectiveness.

Our patented SmartBPM technology makes enterprise applications easy to build and
change by directly capturing business objectives and eliminating manual
programming. SmartBPM unifies business rules and processes into composite
applications that leverage existing systems -- empowering businesspeople and IT
staff to Build for Change®, deliver value quickly and outperform their
competitors.

Pegasystems` suite is complemented by best-practice frameworks designed for
leaders in financial services, insurance, healthcare, government, life sciences,
communications, manufacturing and other industries.

Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, Pegasystems has offices in North America, Europe
and Asia. Visit us at www.pega.com.

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The information contained in this press release is not a commitment, promise, or
legal obligation to deliver any material, code or functionality.The development,
release and timing of any features or functionality described remains at the
sole discretion of Pegasystems, Pegasystems specifically disclaims any liability
with respect to this information.

For Information:
Pegasystems Inc.
Brian Callahan, 617-866-6364
brian.callahan@pega.com
or
PAN Communications
Kim Baker, 978-474-1900
pega@pancomm.com

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