Satyam joins Microsoft mainframe alliance

Satyam Computer Services Ltd, the fourth largest software services exporter
from India, today announced that it has joined the mainframe migration
alliance (MMA) created by Microsoft and industry partners which enables
customers using mainframe systems to move seamlessly to the Windows
platform.

Satyam's expertise in developing business solutions for mainframe migration,
coupled with the current alliance, will enable it to provide customers an
alternative roadmap with the resources they need to achieve the scalability,
reliability, and security they have come to expect from the mainframe, while
delivering a much greater ability to adapt to ever changing business
requirements.

"We are delighted to be a member of the MMA. The company's high caliber
Microsoft .Net-based architectural capabilities, emphasising prescriptive,
re-usable .Net technologies, combined with extensive domain and migration
best practices, will assist Microsoft's customers globally to have a
positive experience migrating to more modern server platforms," Hari
Natarajan, vice president and head of the global Microsoft mission, for
Satyam Computer Services said.

"In addition, this alliance community underlines Satyam and Microsoft's
commitment to ensuring that approved best practices in mainframe migration
reaches the enterprise customer community swiftly and efficiently,"
Natarajan added.

Satyam is a leading provider of business solutions for various platforms
ranging from mainframe to internet applications. Satyam has wide ranging
expertise and experience in offering services to clients on and away from
mainframes.

Migration to newer and modern architectures is necessitated due to
increasing maintenance and enhancement costs of existing platforms, market
demanded flexibility and changing business models, diminishing return on
investments (ROI) in the long term, and leveraging the broader technology
spectrum.

"We are very pleased that Satyam has joined the Mainframe Migration
Alliance," Spyros Sakellariadis, project manager (mainframe migration
alliance) for Microsoft Corp said.

Satyam also has strong alliances with leading product vendors for tools and
processes on both the mainframe and target platforms.

This helps Satyam follow a well-defined tool based approach coupled with
effective processes to shrink the migration timeline and deliver faster and
better applications. Thus the value proposition here points to the cost
saving and reuse achieved and the return on investment obtained.