Satyam wins MS Partner of the Year award

Satyam Computer Services Limited has won the Microsoft Partner of the Year Award for Citizenship at the 2007 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Programme Awards.

Satyam was selected out of an international field of top Microsoft Partners -more than 1,800 organisations - for delivering market-leading customer solutions built on Microsoft technology.

The Microsoft Partner Programme Awards recognise organisations that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions.

"Satyam responded to the lack of a coordinated emergency response system in India by partnering the not-for-profit Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI) to create an end-to-end system using Microsoft NET," said Microsoft vice-president of Enterprise Partner Sales Peter Bolt.

EMRI's Call 108 programme enables people in Andhra Pradesh to dial the number for emergency service.

It is the brainchild of Satyam founder and chairman B Ramalinga Raju, who worked with EMRI and the Government of India to establish the service, a press release said.