Satyam product in top 3 Microsoft MEC awards

BANGALORE: Satyam Computer Services' e-Valuate, an asset verification

business solution for financial institutions, has been declared as one of the

top three finalists at the MEC Awards 2001 in the Best Use of Mobile

Technologies category.

The awards are given to companies that build innovative business solutions

using Exchange 2000's built-in services and its support for Web-standard

protocols, including Extensible Markup Language (XML) and WebDAV.

Microsoft's Best Use of Mobile Technologies award recognizes a solution,

product, or service that positively impacts strategic business processes and

extends the value of Exchange 2000 by the innovative and creative use of one or

more mobile technologies such as the Pocket PC, wireless, or unified messaging

to solve real business problems.

"Microsoft is pleased to honor Satyam as a top finalist in MEC awards

2001 for Best Use of Mobile Technologies category," said Exchange Group

product manager Kevin McCuistion. "When combining Exchange 2000 and

solutions like e-Valuate, customers can automate their business processes and

empower their employees to improve productivity."

e-Valuate provides financial institutions the ability to interoperate with

disparate computer systems across the Internet, the agility to manage

information better and the capability to deliver superior speed-to-value. By

implementing e-Valuate, financial institutions can eliminate inefficiencies,

decrease the risk of fraud, save on costs, while ensuring the highest quality of

services leading to customer satisfaction.

Based completely on the Microsoft .NET framework, e-Valuate uses the

Exchange2000 SDK Workflow application to define a comprehensive asset

verification workflow. Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 is the messaging platform

that provides e-mail, scheduling, online forms, and the tools for custom

collaboration and messaging-service applications.

Additionally, Exchange 2000 is integrated with Microsoft's new Mobile

Information 2001 server, a member of the Microsoft .NET server family, to manage

personalization and network access for field personnel with mobile devices, and

solve the fundamental challenge of assuring end-to-end security between handsets

and applications or Web sites behind a firewall.

Satyam senior vice president John Devasahayam said, "Satyam is honored

to be recognized by the leading industry experts who served as judges for this

event. This validates our conviction that e-Valuate extends the value of

Exchange 2000 to solve real business problems for our joint customers."

Satyam has embraced Microsoft Exchange 2000 in many of its high-value domain

solutions based on the Microsoft .NET framework. Exchange 2000 is the

easy-to-manage messaging and collaboration platform that provides e-mail,

calendaring, instant messaging, conferencing, and services for custom

collaborative solutions that bring people and information together anytime,

anywhere. Exchange 2000 delivers enhanced reliability, scalability,

manageability and performance with a lower total cost of ownership.