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Satyam's novel solutions lab

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DONNING A NEW ROLE: Joe Drouin, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, TRW Automotive Holdings LLC (centre) with B. Rama Raju, Managing Director and co-founder, Satyam Computer Services (left) and G. B. Prabhat, Director, Consulting and Enterprise Solutions, at a press conference in Chennai on Friday.

CHENNAI: IT consulting services provider, Satyam Computer Services, has launched Futurus, a state-of-the-art business solutions laboratory.

On the inauguration of the lab at Satyam's facility here at Tidel Park, the co-founder and Managing Director, Satyam Computer, B. Rama Raju, told reporters that Futurus lab would help to design, simulate and test customers' future business scenarios.

Futures had sophisticated facilities to design and simulate future business scenarios while experimenting with various technology alternatives which enable customers to get a snapshot of what their future business environment would look like.

G. B. Prabhat, Director, Consulting and Enterprise Solutions, Satyam, said the company was evolving into a partnering company from a consulting company. As of now 60 to 70 people were working on half-a-dozen projects across all verticals and were expected to increase its headcount to 200-300 in the near future.

TRW Automotive Holdings LLC, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Joe Drouin, dwelling on the company's five-year exclusive relationship with Satyam, said the ties had grown and expanded to become an integrated partnership.

Terming Futurus as a ``revolutionary offering,'' he said it represented the next quantum leap for TRW, as it offered a chance to leverage the capabilities, chart and evaluate its future course.

New campus in Chennai

Satyam Computers is planning to set up an IT campus in Chennai. It will be on a par with the campuses located in Hyderabad and Bangalore.

The company was scouting for land in Chennai, said Rama Raju, co-founder and Managing Director of Satyam. Mr. Raju said the company needed about 50 to 100 acres for setting up the campus. It was looking at places such as Old Mahabalipuram Road and Mahindra City.

It is learnt that Tamil Nadu Government is expected to allot 50 acres on the Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR), IT corridor of Chennai. But the company has asked for more space on the OMR. The State Government, in principle, has agreed to allot the land. The extent of land to be allotted will be known only by next week. At present, it has taken another facility on OMR last week to accommodate 1,000 people. ``This is just to tide over the present requirement and we are planning to build our own campus on Old Mahabalipuram Road,'' Mr. Raju said.

Satyam's Chennai facilities at present employ 4,500 people, the highest after Hyderabad.

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