Thursday, February 17 2005 18:42 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Bangalore: Sonata Software Ltd, today (Feb 17, 2005) announced the expansion of its Microsoft Competence Centre (MCC) to its latest facility at Hyderabad, and that the company is targeting to add another 300 key Microsoft-skilled resources within the next few months.

The augmented MCC will provide services such as development of vertical-frameworks on Microsoft Business Solutions (MS Axapta and MS CRM), analytics based on Business Intelligence, and solutions based on emerging technologies such as Yukon and Whidbey.

"Backed by Sonata's extensive expertise in Microsoft technologies, a wide service-portfolio and a deep industry experience, the MCC will develop high-impact business solutions, which will result in faster, effective deployment of enterprise solutions for the clients", according to a company statement.

Jnan Dash, an executive consultant to many company CEOs and serving on the boards of several Silicon Valley companies, has been appointed the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to "give a filip to Sonata's technology strategy".