IONA, Satyam join hands

IONA Technologies, a provider of high-performance integration solution for mission-critical IT environments and Satyam Computer Services Limited have entered into a partnership agreement.

In the initial stages of partnership, IONA and Satyam will engage in joint sales and marketing activities with the extent of identifying projects where web services-based integration can be used to bring together disparate systems and deliver powerful 'Service oriented Architecture (SOA) deployments' to its customers.

According to a press release, the agreement between the two companies also covers technology partnership.

Satyam has identified Artix, IONA's extensible Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), as a robust ESB foundation to support some of the SOA projects for customers in its Enterprise Interaction practice, the company press release said.

The intention of both the organisations is to broaden the scope of the relationship across various vertical markets such as banking and financial services, government, healthcare, insurance and telecommunications, the press release added. IONA Technologies is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.