Wipro and SAP Strengthen Relationship to Foster Growth for Customers

Wipro and SAP Strengthen Relationship to Foster Growth for Customers

In an effort to accelerate growth and innovation for businesses around the globe, the Global IT Services Division of Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT) and SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced an expansion of their existing partnership aimed at enhancing development and implementation of best-in-class solutions, especially around enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA). As part of the agreement, Wipro will become an SAP global services partner and will establish a solutions lab in Bangalore to showcase the benefits of enterprise SOA, industry best practices and innovative service-delivery models.

Wipro – A New SAP Global Services Partner
As an SAP global services partner, Wipro joins a select group of large consultancies. Wipro will invest further in joint marketing resources and strategic planning to support the growth with SAP and to serve global customers and prospects. Wipro and SAP will leverage their respective strengths – including Wipro’s in-depth industry knowledge and implementation skills and SAP’s comprehensive range of enterprise applications – to jointly conduct sales promotion programs for mutually agreed upon regional and industry markets.

“We have established 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 an 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. Today’s announcement underscores Wipro’s dedication to expand its SAP applications-based services practice worldwide and to add new dimensions to our already very strong relationship with SAP.”

“Wipro has excelled as a member of our ecosystem by providing high-quality products, solutions and services to customers,” said Léo Apotheker, deputy CEO and member of the executive board, SAP AG. “By expanding our existing partnership to have Wipro become an SAP global services partner – a category reserved for a select group of global organizations that deliver exceptional value and innovation to customers – we are providing a long-term and strategic approach to bringing the value of enterprise SOA to our customers.”

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