Satyam’s solution bags CSI award

Venkat Pulapaka / Hyderabad

A-Mantra, the enterprise wide facilities management solution from Satyam Computer Services has bagged the CSI-Wipro award for the ‘Best Packaged Application’. A-Mantra, launched globally by Satyam, is a workforce-centric enterprise suite aimed at corporate organisations with large dispersed facilities and helps them in managing their geographically spread out assets.

Satyam is the only Indian company to offer such a solution that manages all IT and non-IT assets and infrastructure across an enterprise. Automated mapping and facilities management is one of the fastest growing ITES areas with an estimated annual growth rate of around 18 percent to 20 percent and a global business transaction worth more than $6 billion (Daratech estimate, 2001). The industry covers a spectrum of automation needs, ranging from computer-aided facilities management (CAFM) and workplace industry automation, large area mapping, property and lease management to preventive maintenance planning.

Amit Prasad, head of Satyam’s geographic information system (GIS) wing said, “Over the years, we have successfully built strong competencies in emerging areas of GIS, such as navigation, telematics and facilities management. We are confident that A-Mantra will provide significant cost savings to our customers and emerge as a leading choice for organisations worldwide.”
The solution, aimed at organisations with large facilities and huge assets, tracks enterprise assets and facilities and maps those with users. This aims at reducing an organisation’s general administration expenses, usually at an average of 13-16 percent, to around 10 percent, and thus save valuable financial resources.

A-Mantra has been successfully deployed across Satyam Computers globally, covering 34 locations and 9,300 people. Highlighting the benefits derived from A-Mantra, Satyam’s vice president Zain Hussain said “A-Mantra implementation has resulted in improvement in resource utilisation, efficient associate driven space management and employee satisfaction. It has also helped facilities managers to focus better on value-added strategic priorities rather than low-value administrative processes. The solution has helped in improving self-service transactions and thereby ensured improved performance levels. The space management feature is also a part of our business continuity plan (BCP).”