Satyam opens global development center in Chennai for Nissan North America

Mumbai: Satyam Computer Services Ltd has launched a new global development center (GDC) for Nissan North America in Chennai. The 50,000-square-foot facility on Chennai's `IT Highway'' will house more than 400 associates, scalable to 750 within three years.

Early this year the company won a long-term, multimillion-dollar contract to manage Nissan's mission critical business applications in its North American market. In less than six months, the company became the sole IT service provider for Nissan North Americas entire portfolio, which includes 321 applications in five locations across the US and Canada.

"By completing the transition of Nissan North America's entire application suite ahead of schedule, in less than six months, Satyam has demonstrated its ability to win and execute large engagements in the automotive and manufacturing space," said Subu D Subramanian, director and senior vice president of the company''s automotive and manufacturing business.

Subramanian said that this represents a significant milestone in Satyam's efforts to become an end-to-end solutions provider for global automotive customers.

"We are proud to have been selected as Nissan's IT applications provider, and to be given responsibility for program management for its North American portfolio of applications," he said adding, "We look forward to expanding this relationship."

The agreement calls for the company to provide application management services for Nissan's operations and to adhere to stringent service levels. In addition, the company will manage Nissan's customer relationship management (Siebel) applications post deployment. The company also plans to provide engineering services to Nissan Europe and Japan.