26 Nov 2007
Fifa has signed a multi-million pound deal with Satyam to provide IT services for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa and the 2014 event in Brazil.
Satyam will develop the core IT event management system for Fifa, its service partner MATCH AG, and local organising committees, during the next seven years.
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Satyam’s business in South Africa doubled in the last 12 months. And the investment in local skills will help the economy, said the country's deputy president Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.
"This kind of partnership is one we wish to have with even more companies wishing to do successful business in South Africa," she said.
Just wanted to bring attention to some of the issues that are hidden behind these news of deals of big projects by Indian IT giants. I have had a chance to interact with the many team members working at Satyam for the FIFA project.
Despite being a process-oriented company, project under-estimates and manpower harrassment (over-work, unfair dead lines) has been the order for this team. The kind of mismanagement in terms of understimating efforts either purposefully or out of ignorance in order to get such big deals is appalling. Many team membes have the left the team and continue to leave. Many team members are victimised at work place for no fault of theirs and HR staff are not having power to take action on higher level management resposible for misconduct. The autocractic management for the specific team has failed to learm from the mistakes of squeezing employees by forcing to work for more than 16 hours /day...
Posted by: An Observer 10 Apr 2008
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