Friday, 14. September 2007
Satyam Computer Services Ltd, a leading global consulting and information technology
CYBERJAYA: Satyam Computer Services Ltd, a leading global consulting and information technology services provider, has announced that its Global Solutions Centre (GSC) here is fully operational.
This marked the first phase of the rollout of Satyam's Global Delivery Campus in Malaysia.
Satyam founder and chairman B. Ramalinga Raju said the facility would become the company's largest software hub outside India.
"The GSC is already staffed by 300 (mostly Malaysian) IT engineers, who support Satyam's Asean, Middle Eastern and US customers," he told reporters after the GSC launch here.
Also present were Second Finance Minister Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop, Deputy Science, Technology and Innovations Minister Datuk Kong Cho Ha, and Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) chairman Tan Sri Abdul Halim Ali and chief executive officer Datuk Badlisham Ghazali.
Ramalinga said Satyam's progress with its GSC accelerated consolidation of its Global Delivery Model 2.0, an integral part of the company's strategy to provide distributed delivery capability for global customers.
GDM 2.0 calls for components of a large-scale projects to be completed wherever it makes the most business sense, rather than having an entire programme take place in a single facility, he said.
This approach, according to him, delivers significant cycle time and cost reductions, in addition to quality enhancement.
Ramalinga said the Malaysia facility also reflected the company's commitment to create an alternative workforce, multicountry model and a global delivery approach offering customised business solutions.
He said the facility would be integrated with other Satyam's GSCs across the globe, serving as a major software development centre to bring solutions to market more quickly via the company's low-risk global delivery model.
Ramalinga said the facility is expected to create more than 500 jobs for Malaysian graduates over the next 12 months, with the number increasing to 2,000 in the next few years.
"We consider this facility to be a significant part of Satyam's commitment to multi-dimensional investments in Malaysia, an excellent alternative for solutions development," he said.
He also said that Malaysia was chosen because of the country's advanced infrastructure, rich IT talent pool, competitive cost environment and favourable business climate.
The latest facility is a high-tech centre featuring state-of-the art infrastructure and video-conferencing facilities.
Equipped with high-end security features such as biometric (fingerprint) identification, the GSC also has three training labs and round-the-clock access to Satyam's global knowledge repository.
The opening of the facility followed the signing of a memorandum of understanding in December last year between Satyam and MDeC, which oversees the MSC Malaysia programme.
Satyam's development and delivery centres in the United States, Canada, Britain, Hungary, Eqypt, the United Arab Emirates, India, China, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia serve 570 clients, including one-third of the US Fortune 500 companies.
Source : The Star
