Sonata wins its first customer for Microsoft SharePoint Online

Sonata Software today announced that it has developed applications on the Microsoft SharePoint Online offering and has already acquired a customer. The customer, a global leader in marketing and design staffing services, will use the application for collaboration. This announcement follows the launch of Microsoft Exchange Online and SharePoint Online for businesses of all sizes in the US market. These tools will enable organizations to adopt applications on hosted environments, resulting in savings on license and infrastructure costs, thereby reducing their total cost of ownership.

A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Sonata has been building competencies on SharePoint Online since its beta stage. Sonata’s services, targeted towards companies looking to embrace the new platform, include consulting services, application development services and application integration services of SharePoint Online hosted applications with on-premise applications. Sonata is currently building technology infrastructure frameworks for their customers in the areas of food chain franchise collaboration, knowledge management and project collaboration. These frameworks reduce application development cost by up to 40%.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. PVSN Raju, Head of Enterprise Solutions and Microsoft COE at Sonata Software said, “We are excited to be a part of this new wave. Not only can our customers accrue savings in their IT expenditure, they also get to stay ahead of competition by hosting applications that are at the cutting edge of technology.”

“In today's competitive global market, businesses need technology that cost-effectively enables flexibility and adds value to their organization” said Robert Deshaies, Vice President, US Partner Group at Microsoft Corp. “By virtue of their deep capabilities on SharePoint Online, partners like Sonata are empowered to translate these advantages to direct business benefits for the customer.”

About Sonata Software Limited
Sonata Software, headquartered in Bangalore, India, is a leading IT consulting and services company. Sonata's customers are located across the US, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Its portfolio of services includes IT Consulting, Product Engineering Services, Application Development, Application Management, Managed Testing, Business Intelligence, Infrastructure Management and Packaged Applications. As per the industry rankings released by NASSCOM for FY07-08, Sonata Software ranked among the Top 20 IT Software and Service Exporters in India.