Mahindra Satyam to enlarge operations in Malaysia

Mahindra Satyam, the new brand identity of IT services provider Satyam Computer Services, today said it had selected Malaysia to kick off a new international expansion.

In a press release, the company said that, as a country-specific investment strategy, it would enlarge its Global Solution Centre (GSC) operations in Malaysia by moving more global software development and delivery operations there.

The centre is located on a 15-acre site at Cyberjaya, a prominent info-comm technology (ICT) corridor in Malaysia.

The development comes just five months after its new owners, Tech Mahindra, gained control of the Hyderabad-based software company after it was hit by a major corporate fraud committed by its founder-chairman B Ramalinga Raju.

Relocated from its present premises to a larger facility in Cyberjaya, the new state-of-the art GSC – which has 18 configurable Offshore Development Centre blocks, an 1100-seat development block and a data centre to host 1,100 servers – will serve as Mahindra Satyam’s largest technology development and delivery facility outside of India, the release said.

By focusing on providing a full range of both mainstream business and technology functions like Remote Infrastructure Management Outsourcing, Business Process Outsourcing, Software Services as well as some specialised Software Testing, the new GSC will substantially ramp up the company's range and export of offshore delivery capabilities from Malaysia.

The release said the company's increased Malaysian presence would accelerate the consolidation of its strategy to provide a distributed delivery capability for global customers.

"The Malaysia campus also reflects the organisation’s commitment to creating an alternative workforce, multi-country model, and a global delivery approach offering optimal, customised business solutions to its global customer base," it said.

Presently, the centre has 500 full-time local engineers serving local and global customers.

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