Sonata Software (Sonata) has signed a $5 million deal, five-year outsourcing deal with U.S. based Church's Chicken.

Under the agreement, Sonata will provide complete outsourcing services to the fast-food company including remote infrastructure management, network and data center management, helpdesk and application management. The deal will help Church's Chicken lower its IT outsourcing costs substantially and improve the quality of its customer service.

Church's Chicken, known for its southern style fried-chicken, is the fourth largest chicken franchise organization in the United States. The company employs over 35,000 people and has over 1500 locations in 16 countries. It plans to grow to 2500 restaurants by the year 2010.

B. Ramaswamy, President and Managing Director of Sonata Software, said, "We consider Church's as another milestone in Sonata's strategy of being an end-to-end services provider for enterprises. With Church's we needed to demonstrate a quick understanding of their unique business needs, and we were able to show just that. I see this partnership growing to make a decisive impact in transforming Church's IT infrastructure."

Alan Stukalsky, Chief Information Officer for Church's, said, "Partnering with Sonata enables our IT department to adapt and respond quickly to meet our aggressive growth plans. With Sonata, we are able to consolidate and seamlessly integrate our infrastructure on a high performance platform, while improving our IT business processes to move closer to our vision of IT at Church's Chicken."

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