Satyam bags $71 million Qantas contract

New Delhi, Nov 9: Satyam Computer Services Ltd today announced it has signed a seven-year contract worth 71 million Australion dollars with Qantas, a world-leading airline for 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 the company is already underway.

''We are very proud to partner with Qantas, Australia leading airline as one of their global service providers and we look forward to leveraging our global expertise towards achieving Qantas goals and objectives,'' company's co-founder and chief executive officer Rama Raju said.

The company's Asia Pacific Senior Vice President and Director Virender Aggarwal said this partnership calls for Satyam to further enhance Qantas operational efficiency and with our experience across ADMS and the airline industry, we look forward to expand this relationship for any IT application development project in the future with Qantas.

Over 1000 associates are serving Australia in providing similar application development activities to global majors including nine of the top Fortune 500 Companies in ANZ. Satyam Australia is amongst the earliest organisations in Australia to be certified under ISO 27001 for Information Security and Management Standards, a certification which Satyam achieved enterprise-wide, globally.

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