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Tokyo, Japan - May 10, 2006 - Today, Satyam Computer Services Limited (NYSE:SAY) has announced offering services in Legacy MS Access Application Migration for the Japanese market through its partnership with Chicago based ProtoGroup, LLC (privately held).

Armed with the new partnership with ProtoGroup who produces ReGenTM for Access, a new and unique, application platform conversion engine, Satyam plans to strategically target customers still running legacy Line of Business applications developed on Access 97.

ProtoGroup President, Mr. Christos Fotiadis, says the following about ReGen for Access: “Recently, there has been a marked increase in demand for legacy LOB application migration. This is primarily due to technology obsolescence, elimination of support from the original technology vendor, and required changes brought about by new legislation and business policies. A significant increase in the number of applications to migrate combined with increased labor costs can often make the cost of migration financially prohibitive, which forces companies to remain on legacy technology at significant risk to their operations. We saw the need for unique and comprehensive tools that automate the migration process and eliminate much of the financial burden associated with migration, and have answered this need with ReGenTM” Joshua Satoshi Shozen, Regional Business Manager in Japan for Microsoft Global Accounts has this to say “ProtoGroup’s ReGenTM solution fills a very important gap for our customers and allows them to modernize their existing applications and leverage Microsoft’s newest technology while dramatically reducing migration cost and risk.”

Characteristics of ProtoGroup’s ReGenTM for Access Migration Solution:

• Reduction of up to 70% of cost required to complete migration through automated conversion process
• Accelerated completion of migration process; up to 300% faster
• Compatible with Microsoft .Net WebForms and WinForms, SharePoint Portal Server
• 99.9% UI fidelity to original Access application eliminates user productivity loss
• Migrate Access data into SQL Server or any VisualStudio.NET compatible DBMS
• Enables discovery of valuable Business Intelligence hidden in desktop databases by consolidating disparate Access data onto SQL Server and use of SQL Reporting Services for data mining.
• Increases Availability, Scalability and Manageability of converted applications
• Enables upgrade of MS Office version by eliminating the “Access anchor”
• Allows for managed services outsourcing of application management for additional savings
• Brings existing LOB application into compliance with PIPA law by moving data into Enterprise DBMS and through application of Microsoft Rights Management Services to protect Access applications converted into ASP.NET

About ProtoGroup: ProtoGroup LLC, a leading provider of application platform conversion software helps its customers by significantly reducing their project costs and time through the use of automated processes. ProtoGroup was founded by a former Microsoft Services Strategy Consultant, after observing that a significant number of Microsoft customers had not upgraded their Office97 version after 3 new releases of MS Office, because of the heavy cost of migration of Access applications. The entire portfolio relies on software tools and methods created by ProtoGroup that automate various processes and phases in a migration project's life cycle to increase reliability of the deliverables and substantially reduce the time, human errors and effort requirements. ProtoGroup is also in the process of creating a version of ReGen to convert Lotus Notes applications. The headquarters of ProtoGroup are located in Chicago (USA) with sales offices in Tokyo. You can see a demonstration of the NorthWinds application that shipped with MS Access, which has been migrated into Microsoft’s ASP.NET through ReGen and Satyam at www.regendemo.com Please visit our website at www.protogroup.net or www.protogoup.jp for details.

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