Sonata Software, a global IT services company, announced 30 years of relationship with Microsoft, and a commitment to invest aggressively in a business that Sonata had identified ahead of the curve and has helped drive growth. A relationship that started in India in 1991 has today blossomed into a worldwide 360-degree one, spanning industries, technologies and geographies.

Currently Sonata not only provides services to Microsoft across product engineering, customer support and internal IT applications, but has a deep global relationship across continents, industries and services being a global ISV, SI, lSP, CSP and ISV dev centre.

For Sonata, the key to this success has been aligning continuously to Microsoft's strategy and making investments proactively, organically and inorganically.

Today the Sonata global go-to market strategy based on its proprietary digital transformation concept - PlatformationTM, is totally aligned to the Microsoft digital transformation strategy of engaging customers, empowering employees, optimizing operations, and transforming products across the pillars of modern work, Applications and infrastructure, Data & AI and business applications. This has been done through a variety of initiatives from working closely with product engineering teams of Microsoft to leverage the knowledge for building deep expertise, build industryleading technology practices around platform engineering on Azure and Dynamics 365, providing engineering services to ISVs wanting to migrate to the Microsoft platform.

Srikar Reddy, MD & CEO, Sonata Software, said, "The relationship with Microsoft is one of Sonata's most important journeys - 30 years old and still going strong. What has helped us succeed is our understanding of Microsoft's vision, and our investments in acquiring companies, building skills and capabilities to align and execute to that vision. Having identified and invested in an opportunity ahead of the curve, the focus is now to expand this relationship across geographies, technologies, and industries, making further investments organically and inorganically and derive maximum advantage from a huge and growing market opportunity."

Sonata has continued to invest and grow in IP's like Brick & Click, Modern Distribution, CTRM (Commodity Trading and Risk Management), Connected field services, Franchisee retail, Project Accounting for the services Industry.

Talking about Sonata's expertise in taking Microsoft offerings to market, PVSN Raju, Chief Delivery Officer, Sonata Software, said "Sonata is certified across 18 Microsoft offerings, and is now among a select list of global partners that have achieved specialised accreditation across many of these, which are critical to Microsoft’s growth plans, like Windows Virtual Desktop and Azure certifications."

Shares of the company gained Rs 3.4, or 0.58%, to trade at  Rs 587.30.  The total volume of shares traded  was 7,506 at the BSE (11 a.m., Monday).