Satyam deploys specialist team in Singapore for mission critical projects

Mumbai: Satyam Computer Services Ltd. (NYSE:SAY), has announced her setting up of a specialised 25-member team to support critical IT outsourcing projects which require high-end niche skills and priority programming support in the Asia Pacific region. This also flags-off its new 'global sourcing' initiative.

The team, all handpicked from Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines and India, will be based out of Satyam's APAC headquarters in Singapore. This initiative aims to establish a myriad talent pool which is available on call to successfully carry out highly specialised IT projects on a priority basis, particularly in South-east Asia and China.

In the first such set-up by the Hyderabad-based Indian software giant, the global sourcing initiative has hired senior consultants and IT specialists from five Asian countries. The team includes senior functional consultants and experts in defined verticals such as oil and gas, FMCG, travel and logistics, and the public sector.

Satyam's Singapore operations already has 225 full-time staff, out of a total 1,500 in the Asia Pacific operations.

Announcing the deployment of the team, Virender Aggarwal, director and senior vice president and head at Satyam's Asia Pacific operations said, "Global Sourcing is a vital element in Satyam's growth as a global company, particularly in the APAC region which has diverse cultural and language differences and IT projects which require high skill levels and often tight deadlines. The cost of such specialised talent remains more or less constant across markets. So then a local Singaporean becomes the natural choice."

Hari Thallapali, senior vice president, HR, Satyam, hinted at replicating this model elsewhere, saying, "To cater to our increasingly cosmopolitan clientele, we must infuse the same diversity into our staff. We hope to build upon the success of global sourcing in Singapore before considering replicating this model elsewhere."