ATA Announces Strategic Investment in Recruitment Technologies SaaS Provider Brilent, Inc.

BEIJING, CHINA--(Marketwired - Sep 3, 2015) - ATA Inc. ("ATA" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: ATAI), a leading provider of advanced testing technologies and testing-related services in China, today announced that the Company has entered into an agreement to make a strategic investment in Brilent, Inc. ("Brilent"), a provider of an easy-to-use software as a service (SaaS) that utilizes advances in machine learning, analytics and data science to revolutionize the way recruiters screen job candidates.

Brilent Transaction Highlights

• Led by a management team with experience at a number of Silicon Valley's most well-known tech firms, Brilent was founded in June 2014 and is based in Santa Clara, California.
• Brilent's advanced software allows recruiters to screen high volumes of applicants in minutes.
• The funds from ATA's strategic investment are expected to be used toward advancing Brilent's technologies, enhancing the functionality of its current product offering, and expanding its product portfolio and client base.

Benefits to ATA
With this strategic investment, ATA expects to extend the capabilities of its existing HR Select tool and its competency in exam data analytics, allowing the Company to offer its clients a deeper understanding of job candidates' exam results and improving the effectiveness of selecting the most suitable individual for the job. The Company expects to work closely with management of Brilent to introduce its offerings to and build partnerships in the China market.

Management Commentary
Mr. Peter Zhu, Brilent's CEO, said, "We believe this cooperation between Brilent and ATA will be mutually beneficial to both companies' areas of expertise and use of resources in the human resources and recruitment market. Brilent's core competency in data analytics and machine learning, as well as our focus and years of experience in the recruitment markets and larger HR process, is the perfect complement to ATA's efforts with its HR Select tool for corporate clients in China. Both Brilent and ATA strive toward the same goal -- to help job candidates find the right job for them and to help corporations find the most qualified person for the open positions they need to fill. We believe that partnering with the dedicated team at ATA will accelerate our ability to more effectively hone our data analytics capabilities for the China recruitment/HR market."