Gartner Rates Satyam as 'Positive' for Business Intelligence and Performance Management Services

HYDERABAD, India, Aug. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Satyam Computer Services Ltd. (NYSE: SAY), a leading global consulting and information technology services provider, announced today that it has been rated "Positive" in Gartner's "MarketScope for Business Intelligence (BI) and Performance Management (PM) Services, Western Europe, 2008."*

"Satyam provides innovative BI and PM solutions to customers in a broad range of industries and regions, with particular recent success in Europe, the Middle East and Africa," said Venkat Narayanan, Satyam's BI and PM Practice Head, EMEA**. "We are committed to helping our customers transform their organizations to solve complex business problems and achieve superior results, and we are pleased with Gartner's evaluation, which will enable us to continue on our path."

Satyam's BI and PM professionals provide end-to-end data warehousing, BI and analytics solutions that turn companies' voluminous data into a strategic asset. As a result, organizations can make fast, accurate decisions and serve their own customers more effectively.

"This ranking reinforces the efforts we are making in Europe to apply uncommon insight to our customers' businesses," said Sarvesh Kumar, Satyam's BI and PM Practice Head, Europe. "It also inspires our teams to collaborate with clients on deeper levels and continue to deliver superior solutions."

[*] Gartner "MarketScope Business Intelligence and Performance Management Services, Western Europe, 2008 by Susanne Karlsson, Neil Chandler, Alex Soejarto

[**] Europe, Middle East, Africa

About Satyam

Satyam Computer Services Ltd. (NYSE: SAY) is a global IT consulting and services provider, offering a range of expertise aimed at helping customers re-engineer and re-invent their businesses to compete successfully in an ever-changing market. Nearly 52,000* highly-skilled professionals in Satyam work Onsite, Offsite, Offshore and Nearshore, to provide customized IT solutions for companies across several industries.

Satyam's ideas and products have resulted in technology-intensive transformations that have met the most stringent of international quality standards. Satyam Development Centers in India, the USA, the UK, the UAE, Canada, Hungary, Malaysia, Singapore, China, Japan and Australia serve 670* global companies, including more than one-third of Fortune 500. Satyam's presence spans 66* countries, across six continents. For more information, see www.satyam.com.

                                               Figures as of Jun 30, 2008

About the MarketScope

The MarketScope is copyrighted 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The MarketScope is an evaluation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the MarketScope, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest rating. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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