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From:arvind.ramanathan@techspan.com
To:andy.zipper@enron.com
Subject:Partnership: Enron & TechSpan (Goldman Sachs Funded Company)
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Date:Wed, 23 May 2001 19:42:14 -0700 (PDT)


Dear Andy

I work with TechSpan, Inc. and we have been very excited over Enron's
initiatives in the e-commerce arena and wanted to explore opportunities of
working as a Strategic e-commerce development & integration partner. We plan
to achieve this through an unique methodology which couples high technical
competency and low cost structure for the Energy Industry.

You would be pleased to note that such a strategic partnership and our
unique process could save Enron close to 50% on development & integration
costs and yet enhance competitive advantage on various e-commerce
initaitives. As an example, we have established credentials of completing
projects within $ 1.0 Million as against the projected $ 2.0 M for the same
projects (based on proposals from Big Consulting firms).

I see a good amount of synergy in a partnership with Enron , given our
experience in the e-business development space with over 600 consultants in
our Strategic Sourcing , Application/B2B Integration , Content Management,
CRM and Wireless Practices. Our competencies are built around the solutions
of leading e-commerce vendors such as MOAI, Ariba, eBreviate, Webmethods,
TIBCO, Vignette, Interwoven, E.Piphany, Kana, Epicentric, TopTier, BEA ,
etc.

Moreover, our development experience with more than 35
Exchanges/e-Marketplaces including Forest Express, e2Open, RMX/Chevron,
American Petroleum Exchange, etc and Fortune companies such as Chevron,
Goldman Sachs, Barclays Bank, Meryl Lynch, HP, Cisco has honed our skills
around the business processes in the e-marketplaces, on-line colloboration,
supply chain automation, e-procurement, e-sourcing, etc.

Andy, We would like to understand your technology objectives and see if we
can bring additional value to you through our expertise. I would like to set
up a telephone call next week with you for about 30 minutes, share our value
proposition with you and agree on steps to explore areas where TechSpan can
add value.
A brief profile of our company and capabilities are detailed below for your
kind perusal. I look forward to our discussions on synergies and mutual
value propositions.

Thanks and regards,

Arvind Ramanathan
Business Development Manager
TechSpan Inc.

Tel: 408. 530.5570
Cell: 408. 828.6391

www.techspan.com


TechSpan Profile:

1) TechSpan is a Goldman-Sachs venture funded ebusiness consulting services
company with global HQ in Sunnyvale, CA.
Other locations are Virginia, New Jersey, and India. We have industry's
leading members in our Board such as
Mr. Bill Coleman(Chairman & CEO of BEA Systems) apart from members of
Goldman Sachs & Walden International. Our
Chairman & CEO; Mr. Arjun Malhotra co founded HCL, which is India's
largest IT company.

2) Into our 28th month of operations, currently with 700 plus people and an
annual revenue run rate of $ 100 million.
Such a growth in a short span of two years has ranked TechSpan No.1 in
the Indian Big 6 pureplay internet services
companies, featured in IDC's analysis, Named finalists in Cisco awards,
ranked on Smart 100 companies, etc.

3) TechSpan's focus is providing services in the B2B and B2C ecommerce
space around the C++ / Java/ BEA Weblogic/J2EE and
Microsoft Technologies

4) Our understanding of the enterprise wide eCommerce initiatives, Intranet
applications and the Extranet (Buy and Sell
side) is continuing to add value to our clients like Barclays Bank, HP,
Cisco, Meryll Lynch, Warner Brothers,
Bloomingdales, Sun, Goldman Sach's etc.

5) We build, maintain and enhance complete end to end Web based solutions
using the new wave technologies like Java, EJBs,
Application Servers, J2EE standards etc.

6) We also re-engineer Ist generation web technologies (CGI, Coldfusion
etc..) based web applications to the more scalable
and secure application servers based solutions.

7) Additionally, our technology alliances with Webmethods,
Vignette,Vitria, Ariba, Moai, eBreviate, E.piphany, Octane,
Kana, Interwoven, BEA systems, Gemstone, Remedy, Continuus, Tantau opens
up a totally new dimension in deploying and
integrating packaged software applications.

8) The combination of our development labs in the US, and India can offer
round the clock new development or applications
maintenance/ QA support.