Satyam wins multi-million dollar Qantas deal

Satyam Computer Services, Ltd., the leading global consulting and information technology services company (NYSE: SAY), announced today that it has signed a seven-year contract with Qantas, a world-leading airline. The agreement covers application development and maintenance services for over 150 applications across a wide portfolio of technologies.

This follows the recent Oracle e-Business suite contract announced in August between Qantas and Satyam for the implemented elements of Qantas’ eBusiness systems.  The transition of the IT support and service delivery of these applications to Satyam is already underway.

Today’s announcement follows an extensive, 12-month review by Qantas of its information technology applications development, support and maintenance functions.

Commenting on this win, Rama Raju, co-founder & chief executive officer of Satyam said “We are very proud to partner with Qantas, Australia’s leading airline as one of their global service providers and we look forward to leveraging our global expertise towards achieving Qantas goals and objectives.”

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