Wipro creates SAP growth roadmap
Becomes the “SAP Global Services Partner”, Opens SAP Lab
BANGALORE, 30 August: Wipro Technologies, the Global IT Services division of Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT), has unveiled its roadmap to grow their SAP business identifying three areas of focus – Enterprise Services Oriented Architecture (enterprise SOA), Banking and the Indian mid-market. Wipro will also enlarge its existing portfolio of SAP services in the utilities industry, SCM and CRM domains. The two-pronged strategy enables Wipro to strengthen their frontier technology solution areas, while maintaining a strong grip on existing core competencies. Wipro has recently been included in SAP’s elite list of 15 Global Services Partners.
“Wipro has a strong reputation for delivering high-quality solutions to large, small and midsize enterprises, and for providing competencies for SAP applications,” said Suresh Vaswani, president, IT practices, Wipro Technologies. “Becoming a SAP global services partner provides increased opportunities for Wipro to collaborate with SAP to help businesses around the globe adopt a services-based IT approach.”
The partnership will also focus on verticals such as banking wherein Wipro will be targeting the mid-market segment. Some of these solutions will be developed at the SAP Partner Research Centre which was inaugurated by Dr Henning Kagermann CEO and member of the executive SAP AG and Léo Apotheker, deputy CEO and member of the executive board, SAP AG. at the company’s Electronic City Facility in Bangalore, India.
The visit by the SAP team is a part of the annual summit between the two companies. Apart from being the development hub, the center also doubles up as a solution demonstration facility. It uses the latest interactive technologies to demonstrate cutting-edge solutions. The demonstrations can be instantly customized to meet specific requirements of the visitors.
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. Instead of building monolithic applications for each department, a SOA organizes business software in a granular fashion so that common functions can be used interchangeably by different departments internally and by external business partners as well. The more granular the components (the more pieces), the more they can be reused.
Enterprise SOA is a blueprint for an adaptable, flexible, and open IT architecture for developing services-based, enterprise-scale business solutions. With SAP NetWeaver as a technical foundation, enterprise SOA moves IT architectures to higher levels of adaptability – and moves companies closer to the vision of real-time enterprises by elevating web services to an enterprise level.
Analysts have forecast enterprise SOA to be a growth area and this partnership with SAP will enhance Wipro’s strong presence in this business. Wipro has been at the forefront in advising clients on adopting enterprise SOA and has conducted a number of engagements leveraging innovative tools and frameworks developed in-house to address organization-wide enterprise SOA roadmaps.
Wipro’s continued focus on thought leadership across enterprise SOA was also instrumental in helping it win the SAP Pinnacle Award for “Software Solution Leadership 2007″ earlier this year.
About Wipro
Wipro Technologies, a division of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT), is the first PCMM Level 5 and SEI CMM Level 5 certified IT Services organization globally. Wipro Technologies was recently assessed at Level 5 for CMMI V 1.2 across offshore and onsite development centers. Wipro is one of the largest product engineering and support service providers worldwide. Wipro provides comprehensive research and development services, IT solutions and services, including systems integration, information systems outsourcing, package implementation, software application development and maintenance services to corporations globally.
In the Indian market, Wipro is a leader in providing IT solutions and services for the corporate segment in India, offering system integration, network integration, software solutions and IT services. Wipro also has a profitable presence in the niche market segments of consumer products and lighting. In the Asia Pacific and Middle East markets, Wipro provides IT solutions and services for global corporations. Wipro’s ADS’ are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and its equity shares are listed in India on the Stock Exchange – Mumbai, and the National Stock Exchange. For more information, please visit the company’s websites at www.wipro.com, http://www.wiprocorporate.com
About SAP
SAP is the world’s leading provider of business software*. More than 41,200 customers in more than 120 countries run SAP® applications—from distinct solutions addressing the needs of small and midsize enterprises to suite offerings for global organizations. Powered by the SAP NetWeaver® platform to drive innovation and enable business change, SAP software helps enterprises of all sizes around the world improve customer relationships, enhance partner collaboration and create efficiencies across their supply chains and business operations. SAP solution portfolios support the unique business processes of more than 25 industries, including high tech, retail, financial services, healthcare and the public sector. With subsidiaries in more than 50 countries, the company is listed on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE under the symbol “SAP.” (Additional information at
(*) SAP defines business software as comprising enterprise resource planning and related applications such as supply chain management, customer relationship management, product life-cycle management and supplier relationship management.
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