Sonata Software strengthens focus on cloud

The expansion is happening through alliances with Salesforce.Com and Amazon Web Services

Sonata Software has announced expansion of its cloud-based services through alliances with Salesforce.Com and Amazon Web Services.

Sonata's Cloud Computing Center of Excellence will bring together Sonata's product and platform engineering expertise, combined with cloud technology platforms Windows Azure, Force.Com and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help transform its customers' business on the cloud, the company said.

Headquartered in Bangalore, Sonata Software is an IT consulting and software services provider.

In the April 2011 report 'Sizing the Cloud', Forrester Research Inc estimated that the global market for cloud computing will grow to more than $241 billion in 2020.

The report adds that by 2016, SaaS will have total revenues of $92.8 billion, which accounts for nearly 26% of the total packaged software market.

This further validates the growing demand for cloud computing services.

Gyana Pattnaik, Head - Open Source, Testing and New Technologies, Sonata Software, said, "The cloud market has rapidly evolved over the last few years. There is an upsurge in cloud adoption in enterprises and ISVs which will provide a significant and unique services opportunity to organisations like us."

Sonata offers end-to-end cloud solutions to its customers. Its consulting services help customers define a roadmap for cloud adoption, application development and migration.

Sonata's focus areas includes enterprises in the Outsourced Product Development (OPD), Travel, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Retail and Manufacturing verticals and its customers are located across the US, Europe, Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region.