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Cisco and Satyam Announce Global Collaboration for Integrated Health Solutions
| Source: Cisco Systems, Inc.
BANGALORE, INDIA--(Marketwire - October 30, 2007) - Cisco® (NASDAQ : CSCO ) and Satyam
Computer Services Limited (Satyam) today announced that they are
collaborating to explore a new venture that will optimize, deploy and
manage solutions for handling medical distress situations and health
management solutions for global markets. The venture, in which Cisco has
expressed a strategic intent to make a minority investment, is being
pursued as part of Cisco's extended $100 million venture program announced
today targeting Indian innovation.
The announcement was made today by John Chambers, chairman and CEO of
Cisco, and B Ramalinga Raju, chairman and founder of Satyam, during the
inauguration of Cisco's Globalisation Centre East campus in Bangalore.
Fundamental changes are taking place in the way in which the healthcare
services are provided to citizens across the world. Many countries have a
compelling need for a single-point-healthcare service. Satyam has deep
expertise in Integrated Health Solutions and has developed a health IT
framework -- "Distress to Discharge" (D2D) and has proven implementation
methodologies. The Integrated Health Solution provides individuals with
access to first response, professional healthcare advice and support, with
rapid access to trained medical experts either at designated local health
centers or over a fixed/mobile phone infrastructure.
"Cisco is committed to maximizing purposeful social impact by using
technology as an enabler and platform for positive change. The
collaboration that we are announcing with Satyam today will serve as a
globally replicable model for handling integrated health solutions that
can be implemented across emerging markets," said Wim Elfrink, executive
vice president and chief globalisation officer for Cisco. "This
network-centric model has the potential to play a major role in
transforming the way countries deliver healthcare services to citizens."
Satyam has more than a decade of experience in delivering solutions to the
healthcare industry, and will continue to focus directly on this market.
Now, working in collaboration with Cisco, the development of a
transformational business model reinforces the collective vision of both
companies to service healthcare needs by effectively leveraging technology,
process and domain expertise.
"Valuing and caring for life is a fundamental part of our society and has
driven our social responsibility efforts. Collaborating with Cisco will
help us in taking our services across the world sooner and faster. Our
ultimate aim is to ensure easy access and healthcare services to the needy,
across the world," said Raju.
The program is designed to work in tandem with logistics and medical
healthcare support provided by local government agencies or private
entities to create a complete solution. In this services-led
solutions-oriented architecture, Cisco's technologies will work in an
integrated way with Satyam's processes and Software Application to support
this important service.
The integration of Cisco Unified Communications system and Cisco Unified
Contact Center with Satyam's customized Software Applications makes these
services even more citizen-friendly and effective. Taking advantage of the
network as a platform for delivering managed services will also help to
build a model that can be replicated across even the neediest parts of the
world. The elegance of this model lies in its modularity and the
scalability that internet protocol (IP) supports, together with a robust
process framework which will help enable services to be rolled out in a
phased manner globally.
Cisco also announced its intention to make additional investments in
deploying the solutions in India as part of its continued commitment
towards corporate social responsibility.
About Satyam
Satyam (www.satyam.com), a leading global business and information
technology services company, delivers consulting, systems integration, and
outsourcing solutions to clients in 20 industries and 57 countries.
Satyam leverages deep industry and functional expertise, leading technology
practices, and an advanced, global delivery model to help clients transform
their highest-value business processes and improve their business
performance. The company's 47,500* professionals excel in enterprise
integration, business intelligence, supply chain management, client
relationship management engineering and product development, business
process quality and infrastructure management, among other key
capabilities.
Satyam's development and delivery centers in the US, Canada, Brazil, the
UK, Hungary, Egypt, UAE, India, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan and
Australia serve over 590* clients, including one-third of the US Fortune
500.
*As of Sept 30, 2007.
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