Wipro’s innovative “Supply Chain Transformation and Implementation” model helps Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) transform processes

Bangalore, India, November 12, 2008

Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT), today announced that its Supply Chain Practice has successfully engaged with Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) the largest customer-owned health insurer in the United States to successfully transform their Strategic Sourcing and Procurement processes and help them establish their leadership position in the industry. The engagement helped HCSC gain better control and visibility on spend and drive efficiencies through the sourcing and procurement organizations after a successful implementation of the Ariba spend management suite of applications.

Wipro leveraged its proprietary “Supply Chain Transformation and Implementation” model for this initiative that could pave the way for the next version of global delivery in the supply chain management space.

Wipro’s innovative “Supply Chain Transformation and Implementation” model allows system configuration, customization and retrofitting to be done remotely, resulting in approximately a 30% reduction in cost. The key highlights of this unique model are that it cuts down the implementation cost by 30 % over the traditional model and provides approximately 40% overhead reduction, resulting in a higher ROI from their enterprise application initiatives.

Srinivas Sai N., Global Head SCM practice at Wipro Technologies, said, “Wipro is continuously developing innovative solutions to help drive non-linear benefits for our clients. The benefits accrued to our customers from this unique “Supply Chain Transformation and Implementation” model validate our efforts.”

Wipro Technologies: Winner of Indian MAKE Award, 2008

Bangalore, India, November 06, 2008

Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) today announced that it has been recognized as a winner of the 2008 Indian Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises MAKE Award and was ranked third in the Information Technology sector in ‘transforming enterprise knowledge into shareholder value’. This is the fourth time that Wipro Technologies has been recognized as an Indian MAKE winner.

The formal announcement was made at Confederation of Indian Industry’s (CII) KM India Summit, 2008 where Wipro was recognized under the following categories  — ‘creating a corporate knowledge-driven culture’, ‘developing knowledge workers through senior management leadership’, ‘delivering knowledge-based products/solutions’, ‘maximizing enterprise intellectual capital’, ‘creating an environment for collaborative knowledge sharing’, ‘creating a learning organization’ and ‘delivering value based on customer knowledge’. It was ranked third in ‘Transforming enterprise knowledge into shareholder value’.

Rory Chase, Managing Director of Teleos, said “Indian companies, especially in the IT solutions sector, are transforming themselves into world-class knowledge-driven organizations. Wipro Technologies has been recognized by the 2008 Indian Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) panel of experts for its outstanding integrated approach to managing enterprise-wide collaboration and knowledge sharing. Wipro Technologies was especially noted for the company’s ability to transform organizational knowledge into shareholder value.”

“We are very pleased that Wipro has been recognized yet again as a winner of the Indian MAKE award. With the Indian industry coming of age and continuing to grow at a rapid pace across all sectors, knowledge management is centric to our ability to continuously deliver cutting edge solutions to our customers. The global IT business of Wipro today needs to leverage on expertise across the organization like never before. MAKE Award is an affirmation that our knowledge strategy is on the right track.” said Ved Prakash, General Manager & Head of Knowledge Management at Wipro Technologies.

Started in 1998, the annual MAKE survey is now the leading benchmark for the world’s best knowledge-based organizations. Each year, the survey identifies organizations that stand above the crowd in the knowledge economy. Wipro Technologies has recently been recognized as a winner of the Asian MAKE Awards, 2008 and finished third overall.

About Teleos
Teleos is an independent knowledge management and intellectual capital research firm, administers the Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) program. The KNOW Network is a Web-based global community of organizations dedicated to achieving superior performance through benchmarking, networking and best practice knowledge sharing.

The MAKE research program, conducted in association with The KNOW Network, consists of the annual Global MAKE study – the international benchmark for world-class knowledge-driven organizations – and regional/national MAKE studies.

Wipro-NewLogic and IN2FAB Technology launch Analog and Mixed Signal “Port on Demand” service Collaboration to result in upto 10X reduction in cycle time and engineering costs for migration of IC designs between foundry processes and geometries

Lustenau, Austria & Buckinghamshire, UK, November 04, 2008

Wipro NewLogic and IN2FAB Technology today announced the launch of a new facility to provide design porting services for analog mixed signal and custom IC designs between foundry processes and geometries.  The co-operation enables IC designs and IP to be ported to a manufacturing standard in just a few weeks, typically offering upto 10X reductions in cycle time and engineering costs as well as freeing up customer’s engineers to focus on other potentially higher value added activities.

Known as “Port-on-Demand”, this service line will reside within Wipro NewLogic’s Product Engineering Services division based in Bangalore, India and Lustenau, Austria.

Wipro NewLogic has assembled world class semiconductor design and engineering operations in India and Europe offering a full capability for IC design services with competitive cost and time to market benefits.  Over several years IN2FAB has established a strong track record of porting silicon successfully with its migration tools and methodologies covering all CMOS geometries including most recently the 45nm node. IN2FAB will provide its migration tools, methodologies and infrastructure to the “Port-on-Demand” facility.

Commenting on the launch of this venture Senthil Murugesan, CEO Wipro NewLogic, said “To meet our customers’ requirement for innovative, fast, and high quality design services, we have structured our business by adding “Port-on-Demand.” We are pleased to have IN2FAB as our founding partner in this venture. Their established porting credentials will complement our well established and leading business in analog design”.

Robert Baker, CEO, IN2FAB said “Working with Wipro NewLogic on this venture is an ideal scenario and complements the offerings at IN2FAB.  Wipro NewLogic is the leader in the market for IC design services with a global presence and a well earned reputation for excellence and quality. By combining this with our proven porting technology it creates a highly compelling business proposition for design porting with extensive scale and reach.

By combining these two strengths, this co-operation will provide a powerful and compelling business proposition to overcome some critical bottlenecks for the industry. Although analog content within system-on-chip is growing, companies are unable to scale up proportionately in terms of skilled resources. Also, the current industry standard cycle times for analog redesign are long and costly. The “Port-on-Demand” service will help solve these challenges.

Wipro BPO to set up Business Shared Services Centre in Curitiba, Brazil for AmBev Centre to handle Finance & Accounting, Human Resources, Customer Services and Order management processes

Bangalore, India, October 31, 2008

Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT), announced that its Business Process Outsourcing division, Wipro BPO, is setting up a Shared Services centre for AmBev, the largest brewery company in Latin America with leading brands like Brahma, Becks, Stella and Antarctica. The Shared Services Centre will provide services to AmBev across Latin America in the areas of Finance and Accounting, Order Management, Customer Services and HR Services. The partnership is expected to provide significant financial benefits and leverage transformation opportunities across AmBev operations in the region. These services will be provided from Wipro’s facility at Curitiba in Brazil.

Renato Nahas Batista, Zonal Vice President at AmBev said, “The partnership with Wipro will focus on transforming the existing Shared Service Centre and provide services across Latin America for AmBev. We are happy to be a part of Wipro’s expansion plans for Brazil and Latin America”.

“Wipro’s capability to transform processes, implement SAP and provide world class service delivery is a strength that is unmatched by competition.  Our robust delivery structure combines process, quality and finance & accounting expertise along with SAP consultants. This forms a team that can provide end to end service and take complete ownership”, says Ashutosh Vaidya, Head, Wipro BPO.

Wipro’s Consumer Products Industry practice has a team for Food & Beverage industry with over 400 well-qualified associates. This division focuses on helping Food and Beverage companies re-engineer the way they meet end consumer’s needs through Information Technology solutions.

Wipro BPO is a critical partner to its customers in achieving their business goals. Over 20,000 people, operate out of 9 different locations (India and Eastern Europe). Wipro BPO services customers in various industries including Banking & Capital Markets, Insurance, Travel & Hospitality, Hi-Tech Manufacturing, Telecom & Healthcare sectors. Wipro BPO also has deep expertise in delivering process specific solutions in areas like Finance & Accounting, Procurement, HR Services, Loyalty Services and Knowledge Services.

Wipro Technologies wins Asian MAKE Award, 2008

Bangalore, india, October 17, 2008

Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) today announced that it has been recognized as a winner of the Asian MAKE Awards, 2008 and finished third overall; a rise from a ranking of 15th from the previous year. Wipro was ranked first in the ‘Transforming enterprise knowledge into shareholder value’. It was also ranked high in the ‘Developing knowledge workers through senior management’ and in the ‘Managing customer knowledge’ categories. This is the sixth time in a row that Wipro Technologies has been recognized as an Asian MAKE winner.
The MAKE Winners are chosen by a panel of Fortune 500 business executives and leading knowledge management and intellectual capital experts after an initial short-listing based on nominations by the panel.

The Asian Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) study is part of Teleos’ MAKE research programme. The Asian MAKE study was established in 2002 to recognize organizations founded in Asia for their ability to create shareholder wealth (or in the case of public and non-profit organizations, increasing societal capital) by transforming new as well as existing enterprise knowledge and intellectual capital into superior products/services/solutions.

“MAKE winners have continually delivered knowledge management and transformational knowledge within and outside of their enterprises.” said Rory Chase, Managing Director, Teleos – MAKE “Wipro Technologies is consistently delivering on their promise of high quality services and by winning this award for the sixth time in a row, has proved itself to be a knowledge driven organization geared to achieve greater benchmarks in Knowledge Enterprise.”

Expressing happiness on the recognition for Wipro’s knowledge initiatives, Sambuddha Deb, Chief Global Delivery Officer, Wipro Technologies said, “We are honored to be recognized by this award. At Wipro, we strongly believe in developing key business processes that focus on creating and sharing of knowledge with our customers. This helps us provide “continuous value” to our customers through a combination of best practices and unique delivery models. It is a delight to be recognized for this practice through this award.”
Wipro Technologies has also made it to the 2008 Global MAKE Awards which would be announced later during this year.

Started in 1998, the annual MAKE survey is now the leading benchmark for the world’s best knowledge-based organizations. Each year, the survey identifies organizations that stand above the crowd in the knowledge economy. Wipro Technologies has been awarded the Asian Make awards for the past six years, and in last year Wipro was inducted into the MAKE Hall of Fame.

Wipro appoints Country Head for France

France, October 07, 2008

Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) announced the appointment of Christophe Martinoli as the Country Head for its France operations. This appointment further strengthens and enhances Wipro’s leadership capabilities in the global markets that it operates in with special focus on Europe.

In his role as the country head, Christophe will concentrate on defining a unified strategy for the France market, help build Wipro as a brand of choice and further enhance Wipro’s image as a client facing global organization. In the past few years, Christophe has been in various leadership roles within Wipro. He led the sales efforts for the Manufacturing business and also handled strategic key accounts in the French market.

Christophe carries with him a rich experience of over 18 years across a spectrum of management roles. Beginning his career as a Product Manager with Atos in 1990 Christophe took charge of various leadership roles in leading technology organisations like Sun Microsystems, Alcatel, Sema Group and Stéria to name a few.

“We are pleased that Christophe is taking on the role as Country Head with immediate effect. Christophe has in his previous roles at Wipro, exhibited undeniable drive and leadership.” says Ayan Mukerji, Chief Sales & Operations Officer, Europe, Wipro Technologies. “His appointment further strengthens Wipro’s commitment to the French market.”

Commenting on his appointment, Christophe said, “I am really excited about this new role. Wipro is a high performance company in the global IT services space and my agenda will be to further accelerate Wipro’s top-line momentum in the local market here. We have made significant investments in France over the past two years and we have a definite head start with our focused approach on the vertical and service lines and the current employee base.”

France is an important growth market for Wipro where the IT major has made significant investments in the past few years. Currently Wipro has offices in four locations and two development centers to service customers across industry segments. Wipro also has a dedicated sales and consulting workforce in France.

Wipro among the first SAP partners to adopt Run SAP® Methodology

Bangalore, India, October 06, 2008

Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT), announced the adoption of the Run SAP® methodology for implementation in its application management services and hosting operations. This operations methodology is designed to complement SAP Enterprise Support which enables companies to optimize the implementation and ongoing management of end-to-end solutions.

The Run SAP methodology helps customers beyond the go-live phase and focuses on application management, business process operations and administration. Wipro is among the first SAP partners to adopt Run SAP. This methodology will help IT and business process experts harness their IT landscapes and better implement their enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) strategies. As an early adopter, Wipro will also have an opportunity to help shape this methodology and play a key role in the direction of the next-generation applications management offering for SAP customers.

“Run SAP will provide our clients with lower cost and reduced risk through standardized tools and methodologies, as well as greater agility to manage and innovate their SAP platforms,” said Sangita Singh, senior vice president, Wipro Technologies. “Its preconfigured operations approach bridges the gap between technical and functional components of an implementation and guides customers through different operations, handover to production and optimization of the system. As our clients’ business partner, Wipro’s adoption of the Run SAP methodology globally will enable us to compete more effectively in the enterprise applications market.”

Wipro is offering Run SAP to clients either as FlexDelivery – an Outcome-based delivery model handling variability in work volume that is typical in application maintenance engagements – or as a standalone implementation.
“We are pleased that Wipro intends to strengthen its long-standing relationship with SAP by adopting the Run SAP methodology,” said Dr. Uwe Hommel, executive vice president, SAP AG.  “Wipro will be among the first SAP partners to adopt the end-to-end solution operations approach provided by Run SAP into its application management services and hosting operations.”

The adoption of Run SAP will give Wipro access to SAP-developed tools in the global support backbone, including training, services, operations methodology and mission-critical support components. Over the next couple of months, Wipro plans to build the end-to-end solution capabilities into its Application Management Services organization and intends to become SAP-certified in the Run SAP methodology.

Wipro, an SAP global services partner, has been cited by leading analysts as a leader in providing implementation services in support of SAP solutions. Wipro has also received the SAP Pinnacle Award in 2008 in the category
“Enterprise SOA: Thought Leadership for Service Partners” and the SAP Pinnacle Award in 2007 in the category “Platform Ecosystem: Software Solution Leadership”.

Wipro’s SOA Solution Lab on Second Life inaugurated by Farmers Insurance

Bangalore, India, September 15, 2008

Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT),

announced the inauguration of its SOA Solutions Lab on Second Life, one of the

internet’s most populous virtual worlds. The lab was inaugurated by Srinivasa

Parthasarathy, Vice President, Multi-Line Applications and Global Chief Architect,

Group IT Strategy & Architecture of Farmers Insurance.

Wipro is the first Indian company to leverage new age stakeholder engagement models to

connect with its clients and infuse innovation through an established presence in the

virtual world. The SOA solutions lab presents clients an opportunity to explore the

impact of SOA in transforming their organizations to be more agile and enable business

transformation.

Speaking on the occasion Mr Parthasarathy said “We see SOA as a key technology for

turning IT into a strategic advantage for our business. We are realizing the benefits

of our SOA initiatives in addressing many mission critical requirements like faster

compliance to regulatory requirements. We are encouraged by our success and our

partnership with Wipro has been highly rewarding in achieving our planned objectives. I

am excited to see their capabilities being showcased through innovative brand presence

in channels like Second Life”

“Farmers Insurance is one of the pioneers in successful adoption of SOA, and this

engagement has helped us benchmark new standards in the realization of business

benefits from SOA. We are delighted to have our SOA solution lab inaugurated by them.”

said K.R. Sanjiv, Vice President, Business Technology Services, Wipro Technologies.

“This solution lab on Second Life helps our clients understand and deliberate key

elements of successful Enterprise SOA adoption through a highly interactive

experience.”

Wipro is expanding its presence in Second Life, taking its key innovation initiatives

in areas like SOA to stake holders. The SOA solutions lab showcases demos of key

success stories in Enterprise SOA adoption, SOA assets like SOBay business platform;

SOA governance models; Maturity model; business solutions.

The SOA lab on Second Life will be used to collaborate with customers and partners,

host virtual conferences and provide a mutual platform to infuse innovation in various

spheres of technology and business transformation.

To know more please visit
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Wipro%20Innovation%20Isle/128/128/0/

TiVo chooses Wipro’s DVB-T middleware to build HD DVRs Wipro’s DVB-T and CI stacks used by TiVo for its latest DVR offering

Bangalore, India, September 09, 2008

Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT) today announced that TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), has adopted Wipro’s DVB-T and Common Interface (CI) software stacks for its solutions targeting Australian and European markets.

TiVo has recently launched its HD DVR in Australia with Wipro’s Digital Video Broadcasting – Terrestrial (DVB-T) middleware stack. The solution supports the free-to-air television networks’ digital channels available across Australia with most of TiVo’s popular features.

“TiVo continues to expand its global footprint through strategic alliances that bring a DVR solution to international pay TV and broadcasting companies while providing the best television entertainment experience to consumers around the world,” said Joshua Danovitz, Vice President and GM of International at TiVo Inc. “Licensing Wipro’s DVB-T stack provided easy integration with the TiVo platform, saving  a considerable amount of development time and helping to ensure a successful launch in Australia. We are pleased with the results and the support provided by the Wipro team.”

“TiVo has been an innovation leader since its inception. It has changed the whole TV viewing experience through their innovative DVR solutions over the years.  We are excited about the fact that Wipro’s multi-country compliant DVB-T stack, along with DVB-CI stack, has been adopted by TiVo for their DVR solutions.” Said Nagamani Murthy, Vice President, Mobile Consumer Electronics & Automotive Group,Wipro Technologies

Wipro with its wide spectrum of competencies in the Consumer Electronics domain has more than twenty five licensees for its Digital TV middleware stacks such as ATSC, OpenCable, DVB-T/C/S/CI, MHEG-5 and ISDB-T/S. These stacks can be found in multiple product segments including HDTV, High-end Hybrid set-top box, DVR and In-Car TVs. With proven and off-the-shelf Digital TV middleware, Wipro helps its customer focus on product differentiation through rich applications.

Wipro Technologies opens office in Cologne Facility to strengthen IT major’s presence in Europe

Cologne, September 04, 2008

Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) today, announced the opening of its office in Cologne, Germany. The center was inaugurated by Mayor Fritz Schramma, the Mayor of Cologne.

The new Cologne office is a part of Wipro’s global strategy to offer its customers support from near shore locations around the world. This will further strengthen company’s presence in Europe and Germany in particular.This office will be the seventh location for Wipro in Germany, the other offices being located at Nurnberg, Frankfurt, Kiel, Waldorf, Kempen and Munich.

“We continue to work towards making Cologne an attractive business location not just for foreign companies but also for German companies to work in. Within the framework of the India Initiative, for example, we not only advised the company, but also took concrete steps to help accelerate settlement processes and approval procedures. “said Mayor Fritz Schramma

Wipro chose Cologne because of its excellent business environment. The broad industry-specific structure here includes varied business sectors such as banking, telecom, and insurance. Cologne today has emerged as a crucial commercial centre in Germany.  It is one of the largest industrial regions in the country and has outstanding infrastructure which is an added advantage

Wipro also cited the support and cooperation given by City of Cologne as an important factor for setting up operations here.  Mr. Laxman Badiga, Chief Information Officer, Wipro Technologies said, “This office will further extend our footprint in Germany & Europe and give us an opportunity to offer near shore support to customers. Cologne being a well connected commercial city and the City of Cologne’s administrative support & cooperation has encouraged us to establish our presence here and can act as a hub for our Germany operations in future.”

Revenues from Wipro’s European operations account for 27% of the IT major’s overall revenue. Within Europe, Germany is one of the key markets for Wipro with a large customer base concentration.