Satyam wins multi-million dollar Qantas deal
Outsourcing support and maintenance agreement for seven-year contract - Provides Qantas with resource and cost flexibility for current and future IT projects - Contract for application development and maintenance services for over 150 applications across a wide range of technologies
Tweet-- Satyam Computer Services, Ltd., the leading global consulting and information technology services company (NYSE: SAY), announced today that it has signed a seven-year contract with Qantas, a world-leading airline. The agreement covers application development and maintenance services for over 150 applications across a wide portfolio of technologies.
This follows the recent Oracle e-Business suite contract announced in August between Qantas and Satyam for the implemented elements of Qantas’ eBusiness systems. The transition of the IT support and service delivery of these applications to Satyam is already underway.
Today’s announcement follows an extensive, 12-month review by Qantas of its information technology applications development, support and maintenance functions.
Commenting on this win, Rama Raju, co-founder & chief executive officer of Satyam said “We are very proud to partner with Qantas, Australia’s leading airline as one of their global service providers and we look forward to leveraging our global expertise towards achieving Qantas goals and objectives.”
“This partnership calls for Satyam to further enhance Qantas operational
efficiency and with our experience across ADMS and the airline industry, we
look forward to expanding this relationship for any IT application development
project in the future with Qantas,” said Virender Aggarwal,
senior vice president & director, Satyam Asia Pacific & MEIA.
Over 1000 associates are serving Australia in providing similar application
development activities to global majors including nine of the top Fortune
500 companies in ANZ. Satyam Australia is amongst the earliest organizations
in Australia to be certified under ISO 27001 for Information Security and
Management Standards, a certification which Satyam achieved enterprise-wide,
globally.
Notes to Editor
Satyam Computer Services Ltd. (NYSE: "SAY") is a leading global consulting and IT services company, offering a wide array of solutions customized for a range of key verticals and horizontals. From strategy consulting right through to implementing IT solutions for customers, Satyam straddles the entire IT space. It has excellent domain competencies in verticals such as Automotive, Banking & Financial Service, Insurance & Healthcare, Manufacturing, Telecom-Infrastructure-Media-Entertainment-Semiconductors (TIMES). As a diverse end-to-end IT solutions provider, Satyam offers a range of expertise aimed at helping customers re-engineer and re-invent their businesses to compete successfully in an ever-changing marketplace.
Satyam's network spans 53 countries, across 6 continents. Over 23,000 dedicated and highly skilled IT professionals, work in development centers in India, the USA, the UK, the UAE, Canada, Hungary, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Japan and Australia and serve over 452 global companies, including over 155 Fortune 500 corporations.
We have strategic technology and marketing alliances with over 50 top-notch companies that help us provide end-to-end services to our customers.
Satyam's need-driven deployment of domain and technology expertise brings to customers a range of solutions and products that enhance performance and competitiveness.