Hyderabad based India’s fourth largest IT services company, Satyam Computer Services, has opened a Global Solutions Centre in Malaysia, which the company touts as the largest such development centre outside of India.
Satyam said it would make Malaysia its largest software hub outside India with at least 2,000 employees by 2010.
"In the next few months, the size of Satyam's workforce in Malaysia will grow to 500 to 600. In the next few years, it will grow to about 2,000 people," Satyam founder Ramalinga Raju said.
“We are extremely pleased to have our newest GSC become fully operational. We consider this facility to be a significant part of Satyam’s commitment to multi-dimensional investments in Malaysia, an excellent alternative to India for solution development,” Raju added. “We find the country attractive because of its advanced infrastructure, rich ICT talent pool, competitive cost environment, and favourable business climate.
We look forward to strengthening our relationship with the Malaysian government and the professionals in this country. At the same time, we are proud to play a role in the country’s ICT success.”
The centre, built in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur, will initially have 300 workers, mainly IT engineers, who support Satyam's operations in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and the United States.
The facility will be integrated with other Satyam GSCs across the globe, and will serve as a major software development centre, creating solutions. It is expected to create more than 500 jobs for Malaysian graduates over the next 12 months. It also complements a 100-seat development centre Satyam operates in Kuala Lumpur. That facility, which was established in 2003, serves as a nearshore hub for ASEAN customers.
This latest facility is a hi-tech centre featuring a state-of-the-art infrastructure and videoconferencing facilities. Equipped with high-end security features such as biometric identification, the GSC also has three training labs and around-the-clock access to Satyam's global knowledge repository, which can be leveraged to deliver cutting-edge solutions to customers across the globe. |
