Satyam Partners with Planview, Inc.

Alliance with Portfolio Management Solutions leader will enable Satyam to help customers optimize finances, employees, and capacities

HYDERABAD, INDIA — August 7, 2006 — Satyam Computer Services, Ltd. (NYSE: SAY), the leading global consulting and information technology services company, announced today that it has formed an alliance with Austin, Texas-based Planview, an enterprise portfolio management software organization. The alliance enhances Satyam's ability to deliver best-in-class enterprise portfolio management, IT governance, and project management processes to companies around the world.

The collaboration also will enable Planview's clients to receive optimal performance from its products, which are designed to align business and IT objectives; prioritize projects; assess the return on numerous investments; and foster more widespread adoption of standardized, integrated processes. On a typical partnership engagement, highly trained Satyam professionals will help Planview customers implement the software company's cutting-edge technology and processes. At the same time, Planview will bring its solutions to Satyam's global customer base in industries such as energy, entertainment and media, financial services, healthcare, high technology, insurance, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, and utilities.

"We are pleased to have Planview join a growing list of organizations that partner with Satyam to provide best-of-breed strategic and process consulting solutions to companies across the globe," said G.B. Prabhat, Satyam's director of Consulting and Enterprise Solutions. "Our ability to craft innovative IT governance and portfolio management strategies, and to leverage the comprehensive features of Planview's enterprise software, positions our organization to deliver world-class IT Project Management and Program Management Office solutions."

"As a software provider rated in the leader 's quadrant of Forrester''s analysis of Project Portfolio Management vendors, we are positioned well to leverage Satyam's consulting and system integration capabilities, and make dramatic improvements for clients in key areas," said Patrick Durbin, the founder and chief executive officer of Planview. "With Satyam's strategy and process experts, we are able to create exceptional portfolio management solutions, bring them to new and existing customers, and implement them."

About Satyam Computer Services

Satyam Computer Services Ltd. (NYSE: SAY) is a leading global consulting and information technology services company. Satyam provides a comprehensive scope of services to help customers reengineer and reinvent their businesses to compete successfully in an ever-changing marketplace. More than 30,000* 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 489* global companies, of which 156* are Fortune Global 500 and Fortune US 500 corporations. Satyam's presence spans 55 countries, across six continents.

*As of June 30, 2006

About Planview

Since 1989, PlanView has been a market leader and trusted partner in providing comprehensive portfolio management solutions. PlanView Enterprise™, the company's leading performance management platform, combines project and portfolio management software with adaptive best practices, PlanView PRISMS™, to provide unprecedented visibility into total IT spend. By integrating the business process management of strategies, services, and projects within a single, Web-based solution, Planview empowers organizations to achieve greater levels of control over their ever-changing environment by dynamically managing money, resources, and capacities. Industry leaders such as Citigroup, Reuters, EDF and the US Department of Transportation, partner with Planview to achieve their strategic business goals. Headquartered in Austin Texas, with offices across the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific, Planview supports more than 450 customers in virtually every industry. PlanView is privately held and has been profitable for over a decade. For more information visit www.Planview.com

Planview Enterprise is a trademark of Planview, Inc. All other product and company names may or may not be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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