This is how Mahindra Satyam Company grew Successful
Mahindra Satyam (formerly Satyam Computer Services Limited) was an Indian information technology (IT) services company based in Hyderabad, India, offering software development, system maintenance, packaged software integration and engineering design services. Satyam Computer Services was listed on the Pink Sheets, the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange and provided services to a wide range of customers including 185 Fortune 500 companies.
In January 2009 the company’s founder and chairman by Ramalinga Raju admitted inflating the company’s assets by $1 billion, leading to criminal charges and a collapse of the company’s stock price. In April 2009 the $14 billion Mahindra Group’s IT arm, Tech Mahindra, purchased a major stake in the company and in June 2009 the company renamed itself Mahindra Satyam. Mahindra Satyam merged with Tech Mahindra on 24 June 2013.
Mahindra estimates that since incorporating the AWS solution, its pharmaceutical client has saved up to 40 percent in infrastructure and maintenance costs. There is also a significant reduction in up-front costs as well as the potential for reduced lifetime costs.
What Challenges they had?
Mahindra Satyam approached Amazon Web Services (AWS) when one of its clients — a top 3 global pharmaceutical company — needed a way to share documents with its partners. In addition to document-sharing, the client needed the capability to search and download documents, integrate with Enterprise Systems to retrieve documents and metadata for upload, and authenticate all users against the Enterprise Active Directory.
Why Amazon Web Services?
Incorporating a variety of products into the cloud computing platform, AWS created a potent solution:
Microsoft SharePoint Portal is used as the document management portal for Enterprise users and partner users.
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) authenticates claims against the Active Directory.
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) guarantees that data is securely transferred over the Internet.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances are launched in the public domain with Elastic IP and Domain Name Service (DNS).
Windows Server 2008 and SQL Servers are used to configure the instances.
Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 configures the Customer SharePoint Site.
Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS) will be added as needed for database storage and to meet growing data demand.
The Benefits
In searching for a cost-effective cloud architecture solution, Mahindra Satyam and its client were particularly drawn to several AWS features. The ability to scale up or down depending on traffic and the pay-per-use model were especially important, because these features reduce expenses by eliminating the cost of maintaining an infrastructure of physical servers. Another deciding factor was Amazon’s role in managing the services, which reduces the responsibilities (and headaches) as well as the costs of administering an infrastructure.
Migrating to Amazon Web Services has proven to be a wise decision. Mahindra estimates that since incorporating the AWS solution, its pharmaceutical client has saved up to 40 percent in infrastructure and maintenance costs. There is also a significant reduction in up-front costs as well as the potential for reduced lifetime costs. Thus it proves us that Amazon Web Services definitely delivers.
AWS Does the Following Things:
- Scales up or down depending on traffic
- Reducing expenses by eliminating the cost of maintaining physical servers
- Benefits from managed AWS services
Thus AWS helps Businesses grow up exponentially, a lot easier and in a cost-efficient way.