Satyam inks $ 1 bn deal with Fujitsu for Reuters
Hyderabad,
Oct
23:
Satyam
Computer
Services
Limited
(Satyam)
has
signed
an
agreement
with
Fujitsu
Services
to
provide
IT
services
to
Reuters
as
part
of
a
1
billion
US
dollar
internal
information
systems
transformation
programme.
Under the ten-year contract, Satyam will be extending its support and development services to a large number of core applications as well as providing managed infrastructure services for desk side suport, a global Network Operations Centre and Remote Infrastructure Management.
The provision of support and services will be extended across 17,500 Reuters employees based in over 100 countries.
Satyam had been delivering key services to Reuters for over six years. Under the new contract, Satyam will now provide some of its services to Reuters through Fujitsu.
These services will be delivered from its current Reuters Offshore Delivery Centre in Hyderabad and from a new centre in Chennai.
"This deal will deepen Satyam's relationship with Reuters as it will extend the range of services currently offered," Satyam Chairman Ramalinga Raju told the media here today.
UNI