Satyam creates new legacy renewal practice

Satyam Computer Services Ltd has announced the creation of a new legacy renewal and transformation consulting practice leveraging Pegasystems Inc's SmartBPM technology.

Satyam created the new practice in response to the growing concern of aging computer applications that no longer deliver flexibility or responsiveness.

According to a press release, G B Prabhat, director (consulting and enterprise solutions unit), Satyam, said, "Customers are spending 80 per cent of their annual IT budget maintaining their aging business applications "� a problem which is exacerbated by constantly changing business requirements that require code-level attention and administration. SmartBPM technology from Pegasystems provides an alternative to replacing, maintaining or re-platforming a company's inventory of legacy applications. Our legacy renewal and transformation practice provides a phased approach whereby legacy code is cleansed, optimised and redeployed as business rules and business processes."

The end result is a transformed application environment with enterprise-wide best practice standards and data.