The expression of interest of new SAP development facility in Australia was reportedly extended by Satyam's Ramalinga Raju to the Australian Communications Minister Helen Coonan last week.
The Australian Minister visited Satyam headquarters in Hyderabad as the head of an Australian IT delegation.
Helen Coonan called on Ramalinga Raju and his senior executives to discuss possibilities of increased Satyam operations in Australia.
Satyam director and corporate strategy senior vice-president Shailesh Shah has been quoted by "The Australian" as saying that the company planned to hire 30 SAP specialists to service clients in Australia and overseas.
"Our goal is to make this centre of excellence a lead-in to expanding our SAP practice in the Asia-Pacific region," Mr Shailesh told Murdoch Press reporter.
"There are a lot of high-end skills in Australia," he said.
Satyam is among the Indian IT majors who have set up shops in Australia.
Satyam started its Australian facility in Melbourne in 1999 and have Australian telecommunication giant Telstra, retail chain Woolworths, finance services provider AMP and Mayne Logistics among its clients.
In spite of operating a huge software development and client service facility from Melbourne with the help of predominately local staff, Satyam has been at the receiving end of the criticism by the Australian IT lobbying groups.
The Satyam bosses have been stressing, to counter such negative sentiments, that they are interested in recruiting local IT professionals to run its Australian operations.
"We need to recruit more locally, and become part of the social network of the local economy," Satyam director said.
"As we become a global company, our need to localise has become very important," he further said.
