WILMINGTON, North Carolina, January 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Business process management supports success in technology-focused 
projects

PPD, Inc. (Nasdaq: PPDI) today announced that CSS Informatics, the 
clinical and safety data management consulting services and proprietary e-
technologies division of PPD, has entered into a solutions partner agreement 
with Nimbus Partners, a provider of process management software and services.

The agreement makes it possible for CSS Informatics to further expand its
range of services to clients by supporting them in designing, managing and
optimizing their business processes. Control 2007 offers a Web-facilitated
collaboration environment that measures and optimizes processes, performs
activity-based costing, develops and reviews scenarios for process change,
and communicates the process for widespread adoption. CSS Informatics will
use Nimbus' Control 2007 software for business change projects related to
clinical and drug safety.

"Our alliance with Nimbus strengthens our information management service
capabilities," said Graham Downing, vice president of informatics. "By
joining Nimbus' process management capabilities with CSS Informatics'
existing technology products and services, we will be able to deliver more
complete solutions to the business challenges that our clients face. We
believe that our new offerings will result in even greater success in the
business change projects that we undertake."

With offices in the United States and Europe, CSS Informatics provides
consulting services and proprietary e-technologies for clinical and safety
data management, including design, development, implementation and validation
of clinical research data systems, training and regulatory consulting
services. CSS Informatics is a division of PPD, a leading global contract
research organization with more than 10,000 professionals and offices in 30
countries. For more information on CSS Informatics and PPD, visit our Web
sites at http://www.cssinformatics.com and http://www.ppdi.com.

Headquartered in the United Kingdom, with offices in mainland Europe, the
United States, Middle East and China, Nimbus Partners is one of the UK's
fastest-growing companies and is regularly featured in the Deloitte Fast 50 &
500. It has helped more than 250 organizations in 15 countries drive
transformational change through process management. Nimbus delivers software
and service solutions which enable the consistent adoption of strategic
initiatives throughout organizations. For more information, visit
www.nimbuspartners.com.

Except for historical information, all of the statements, expectations
and assumptions contained in this news release, including expectations and
assumptions about the cooperative agreement with Nimbus Partners, are
forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties.
Although PPD attempts to be accurate in making these forward-looking
statements, it is possible that future circumstances might differ from the
assumptions on which such statements are based. In addition, other important
factors which could cause results to differ materially include the following:
continued success in sales growth; loss of large contracts; increased
cancellation rates; economic conditions and outsourcing trends in the
pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, academic and government
industry segments; competition within the outsourcing industry; the ability
to attract and retain key personnel; risks associated with and dependence on
collaborative relationships; risks associated with the development and
commercialization of drugs, including earnings dilution and obtaining
regulatory approval; risks associated with acquisitions and investments, such
as impairments; rapid technological advances that make our products and
services less competitive; risks that we may not continue our dividend
policy; and the other risk factors set forth from time to time in the SEC
filings for PPD, copies of which are available free of charge upon request
from the PPD investor relations department.

Contacts
    Media:
    Sue Ann Pentecost
    +1-919-456-5890
    sueann.pentecost@rtp.ppdi.com

    Analysts/Investors:
    Craig Eastwood
    +1-910-558-7517
    craig.eastwood@wilm.ppdi.com

    Web site: http://www.ppdi.com
              http://www.cssinformatics.com
              http://www.nimbuspartners.com