LONDON, February 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- Partnership to serve BT's Small and Medium Business (SMB) Customers

Astadia, the leader in SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) consulting, and one
of salesforce.com's largest system integrators, announced it has been
selected by BT to implement salesforce.com solutions for BT's small and
medium business customers in the United Kingdom.

In October 2008, BT announced a partnership with saleforce.com solutions
in the United Kingdom. To support this initiative, BT has engaged Astadia to
provide a number of salesforce.com implementation and support services, which
customers can purchase directly from BT. This includes a range of packaged
PowerStart(R) package options designed to ensure SMBs derive the maximum
business value from salesforce.com in the shortest time possible.

"BT is focused on helping UK SMBs to do what they do best by bringing
together solutions through strategic partnerships with applications providers
such as Salesforce.com", said Chris Lindsay, BT Business Applications. "We
realize that the volume and nature of business generated with the
salesforce.com offering will require a large, experienced team to deliver the
quality levels expected by our customers. Astadia's experience earned through
thousands of salesforce.com initiatives across a wide variety of industries
in 30 countries 'illustrated perfectly why they were the right partner for
us."

David Woodhead, Vice President for Astadia's EMEA operations, stated "We
are delighted to be selected by BT, one of the world's premier brands. Our
consulting team's depth and breadth of experience will enable service
delivery that parallels the high quality levels expected by BT and their
customers. Our delivery methodology and unmatched experience will enable BT
customers to take advantage of the uniquely flexible, agile and innovative
platform that salesforce.com provides."

To learn more about BT's salesforce.com offering visit
http://www.btbroadbandoffice.com/broadband-and-internet/business-applications
/salesforce-crm or call 0800-731-0144.

About Astadia

Astadia is a global business consulting and SaaS solutions company that
helps clients of all sizes improve results by transforming business processes
and technologies. With offices across the U.S. and in Europe and Asia,
Astadia serves businesses, large and small, with subject matter expertise in
a wide array of industries. Astadia enables Customer Relationship Management,
Human Capital Management, Marketing Automation, Partner Relationship
Management and Sales Force Automation. Astadia's partners include
salesforce.com, Google, Workday, Eloqua, Xactly and Cornerstone OnDemand. For
more information, visit http://www.astadia.co.uk/ or call +44-845-055-9758.

About British Telecom

BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions
and services operating in 170 countries. Its principal activities include the
provision of local, national and international telecommunications services to
our customers for use at home, at work and on the move; higher-value
broadband and internet products and services and converged fixed/mobile
products and services. BT consists principally of four lines of business: BT
Global Services, Openreach, BT Retail and BT Wholesale.

In the year ended 31 March 2007, BT Group plc's revenue was 20,223
million pounds Sterling with profit before taxation of 2,484 million pounds.

British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT
Group and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group. BT
Group plc is listed on stock exchanges in London and New York.

For more information, visit www.bt.com/aboutbt .

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