Sonata Software on Tuesday announced the opening of its second Offsite Facility (OF) for Microsoft at Sonata?s new Global Village facility here.

The first OF which is in Sonata?s Hyderabad office, has been operational since 2006.

The new development centre has been designed keeping in mind flexible, scalable and independent operations. The facility would provide design, development, testing, production and maintenance of Microsoft?s products.

A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Sonata engages with Microsoft over multiple engagement models, technologies, platforms and geographies. With Sonata?s wide array of service offerings, the state-of-the-art facility promises to deliver high-impact solutions for Microsoft.

Inaugurating the facility, Hal Howard, general manager, Microsoft Dynamics, said Sonata?s deep domain knowledge and technical skills helps it ensure accelerated development cycles, improved time-to-market and increased competitive agility.

President and Managing Director of Sonata Software, B Ramaswamy said: ?We continue to invest aggressively to build capacity in order to serve our customers. This strategy allows us to quickly scale our organisation, support the business demands of our global customer base, and further establish our leadership position in Software Product Development services?.