Satyam and Pentaho Strike Strategic Alliance

Forms the largest consulting partnership in the open source BI market which enables realization of customer goals at the lowest possible total cost of ownership

Alliance to deliver the technology and implementation expertise to address the full spectrum of business intelligence market needs across all industries and geographies

Orlando, FL - Nov. 7, 2006 - Satyam Computer Services, Ltd. ( NYSE: SAY), the leading global consulting & IT service provider and Pentaho Corp., creator of the world's most popular open source business intelligence (BI) suite, today announced a strategic alliance to deliver technology and implementation expertise to address the full spectrum of business intelligence market needs across all verticals and geographies. With a large pool of Satyam employees providing consulting and business development expertise around Pentaho's Open BI Suite, this alliance represents the largest consulting partnership in the open source BI market. Satyam and Pentaho consultants will collaborate to dramatically accelerate customer adoption of Pentaho's market-leading open source BI technology and deliver unsurpassed value to organizations around the world. As a result of this partnership, clients ranging from small- and medium-sized businesses up to global enterprises have an obvious choice for business intelligence success.

With a presence in more than 55 countries and more than 15 years of experience in delivering IT solutions, Satyam has the skills and reach to deliver client success on a global basis across 17 vertical industries. Gartner has positioned Satyam in the Visionaries quadrant in the Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Implementation Services and Satyam currently employs more than 2,000 business intelligence and data warehousing consultants.

Founded in 2004, Pentaho has been a pioneer in open source business intelligence, growing quickly on a record of technology excellence, passion and focus on business intelligence, global distribution, and rapid community adoption. Pentaho was recently named SourceForge.net Project of The Month for October, and the Pentaho community extends to more than 100 countries. This brisk market uptake is driven by the breadth and depth of Pentaho's capabilities, and its strong partnerships with other market leaders like Satyam, IBM, MySQL, Novell, and JBoss, a division of Red Hat.

"We were very impressed with Pentaho's offerings," said Kiran Cavale, vice president, Enterprise Applications and Business Intelligence Solutions, Satyam. "We evaluated the functional breadth, architecture, performance and scalability of open source BI offerings, and Pentaho was the obvious choice. We also believe that Pentaho has the partner program, brand strength, and expertise to make this partnership a huge success."

"We're extremely pleased to work with a proven worldwide leader like Satyam," said Dave Henry, vice president of Business Development for Pentaho. "We're committed to delivering the benefits of professional open source BI to clients around the globe, and Satyam is an ideal partner in that mission given their worldwide reach, proven BI methodology, and the consistent results that Satyam has delivered for their clients."

About Pentaho

Pentaho provides a full spectrum of business intelligence (BI) capabilities including reporting, analysis, dashboards, data mining, data integration, and a BI platform that have made it the world's most popular open source BI suite. Formed by a highly experienced team of industry veterans, Pentaho's mission is to bring innovative, high quality technology and professional support to the BI market. Pentaho uses a revolutionary approach to development, distribution and support made possible by a professional open source business model. Pentaho is the primary sponsor and owner of popular open source projects including JFreeReport, Kettle, Mondrian, and Weka. Pentaho's technologies support a wide range of business initiatives from sales and profitability analysis, customer analysis, HR reporting, Financial reporting, KPI dashboards, Supply Chain analytics, and operational reporting.

About Satyam

Satyam Computer Services Ltd. (NYSE: SAY), the leading global consulting and information technology services company, provides a comprehensive scope of services to help customers reengineer and reinvent their businesses to compete successfully in an ever-changing marketplace. Nearly 35,000* highly skilled professionals in Satyam work onsite, offsite, offshore, and nearshore to provide customized business solutions for companies in several industries. Satyam's ideas and products have resulted in technology-intensive transformations that have met the most stringent international quality standards. Satyam has Development Centers in the USA, the UK, the UAE, Canada, Hungary, Malaysia, Singapore, India, China, Japan, and Australia. These centers serve 521* global companies, of which 157* are Fortune Global 500 and Fortune US 500 corporations. Satyam's presence spans 55 countries, across six continents. For more information, log on to www.satyam.com
*As of September 30, 2006