Mahindra SatyamTo Concentrate On Four Key Areas In Malaysia

By Santhia Thevi Panjanadan KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 18 (Bernama) -- Mahindra Satyam, a leading global consulting and information technology company offering business consulting services, hopes to further strengthen its position in Malaysia by focusing on four key sectors. Its Head of Sales, Asean, Ram Ramachandran, identified banking and insurance, manufacturing, government and goverment-linked and airline sectors, as core areas which offered great potentials for growth. He said the company, already faring well in these sectors globally, wanted to emulate them in Malaysia. "The uptake has been encouraging and it is still growing. We feel that the huge amount of work we have done worldwide can be replicated in a market like Malaysia," he told Bernama here Friday. Ram said the company's clients -- major global corporates -- were the main driving forces behind its growing business. The company's name "Satyam" means "being true to our promises" in Hindi and Tamil. Mahindra Satyam's operations in Malaysia are part of its international expansion plans and it has been moving software development and delivery operations to its Global Solutions Centre (GSC) in Cyberjaya. He said the government and government-linked sectors had the most market potentials and the company had started discussions with related parties. "We can't go directly, but there are creditable partners whom we have started to engage with," he said. Ram said Mahindra Satyam saw huge requirements coming in from the Malaysian market following the technology globalisation that was taking place rapidly, which Malaysia was also actively involved. Among the areas of services that have potentials in the local market are legacy modernisation around business intelligence, enterprise applications, analytic solutions and social media analytics. "Mahindra Satyam has advantages because we have the experience working on them on the larger scale for enterprises globally and we would like to replicate them here. "We have kicked off our focus but now with more structured approach to the market following the identification of the key four sectors and more aligned partners, Mahindra Satyam is poised to grow in Malaysia going forward," he said. He said its GSC's manpower had grown by over 30 per cent to 450 employees since the centre was established last year, to cater to the global and local customers. Malaysians accounted for between 80 per cent and 90 per cent, he said. "Huge investments are being made in terms of recruitment and training. Our teams are scaling up. Now there are even tie-ups with universities for training. "The over 30 per cent growth from last year signifies the centre's positive performance," he said. Currently, GSC has about 20 customers from a variety of sectors and the local customer base was continuously growing encouragingly, he said. He said GSC's new customer, MasterCard Global, has enabled the company's Malaysian resources to be the key delivery location for Mastercard. -- BERNAMA