Satyam plans more units to expand global business
NASDAQ listed Satyam Computer Services is expanding its global footprint, eyeing development centres in Russia, vietnam and the Philippines. The company reckons it can tap the local talentpool for these centres. Besides, it would also help mitigate business risks through a global delivery model.
As part of this stragegy, Satyam has opened a global solutions centre (GSC) in Malaysia, which can accomodate 500 people. The fourth largest software exporter from India will open another centre there by the middle of next year to house about 2000 associates. The company already employs about 300 people in Malaysia.
B.Ramalinga Raju, Founder and Chairman of Satyam Computer Services said that Malaysia would be one of their largest software hubs outside India. He said that they would hire about 500 people at the new facility in a year. The new centre complements their near-shore hub there for Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) customershe added.
Currently the company has a development centre in China and Egypt in the Asia-Pacific region. He said that they had four facilities in China, where they have about 500 people, while their centre in Egypt had about 100 employees. He also said that they had plans to tamp up our operations at Nanjing in China to 2500 in future.
Asia-Pacific, Middle-East, India and African regions contributed 18% of Satyam’s revenues at the end of the forst quarter this fiscal. The company expects business in this region to grow even faster than the US in the future.
In the Middle-East, Satyam computer Services has facilities in several countries including Saudi Arabia, UAE and Oman. It is also looking at south Africa as a growing domestic market for new deals particularly in government, abnking, oil & gas and telecom sector. The company has 120 people across two centres in South Africa and is planning to increase it to 300 by this fiscal end.
Mr.Raju said that they were exploring other locations for setting up new development centres. He added that those centres would contribute to their virtually integrated global delivery model and complement established facilities and customer service across different geographies.
