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.