Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting, part of the Wipro group, is buying 100% of Zhongshan Ma Er Daily Products Limited, a Chinese Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) company, in an all cash deal. “This acquisition will help the company leapfrog into the leading position in South China’s personal care market besides adding critical brands to […]
Wipro Limited, an India-based information technology, consulting and business process services company, said it had joined Oracle’s Cloud Managed Service Provider (MSP) Program. Wipro’s Boundary Less Data Center offering has been integrated with Oracle’s twin cloud offerings — Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service. ‘Cloud’ refers to the practice of leveraging the […]
IT provider Wipro Ltd said Indian government’s Employees’ State Insurance Corporation has withheld payments due to it after the completion of a project, and it will take legal action to recover the amount. The seven-year contract, named Project Panchdeep, was completed on June 08, 2016, and Wipro provided an additional three months of support. “Wipro […]
Wipro has launched a cloud-based file transfer service for enterprises. Wipro’s Managed File Transfer as a Service (MFTaaS) platform utilizes Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure. File transfer software is used by companies to move large chunks of data from one location to another in a secure manner. Typical communication applications, such as email and messenger, do […]
Wipro, one of India’s top IT outsourcing companies, said it has won an IT infrastructure “transformation contract” from the ASSA ABLOY Group, one of the world’s biggest door-opening solutions provider. As part of the five-year agreement, Wipro will consolidate ASSA ABLOY’s existing data centers in the EMEA region and implement a cloud-based service model, which […]
Wipro Ltd said the number of employees leaving the company of their own accord fell to 16.3% in the year 2015 from 16.5% in 2014. Much of the improvement came from the BPO unit, where attrition fell below 10% for the first time in many quarters. For the calendar year 2015, Wipro’s BPO division saw […]
Open source software has become a critical driver for innovation at leading companies and public-sector organizations around the world, according to a new research report produced by Oxford Economics in partnership with Wipro Limited. The report, The Open Source Era, also shows that open source software is essential to the use of other cutting-edge technologies […]
Wipro first-quarter IT Services revenue disappointed with a sequential growth of just 0.2% in constant currency. YoY, constant currency growth was 8.1%. In dollar terms, IT Services Segment Revenue was $1,794.1 million, a sequential increase of 1.1%. The performance is all the more jarring due to a spectacular performance by Infosys just days ago. Infosys […]
In an announcement that coincided with the release of Tata Consultancy Services’ quarterly results, Wipro Ltd said it has agreed to acquire Designit, a global design firm based in Denmark. The Denmark-based firm specializes in designing user experience, interaction design and product innovation. The value of the transaction was not revealed. “This investment marks a […]
Wipro will cut one third of its employee base. Tata Consultancy Services to apparently let go off 25,000 senior employees (according to Business Standard). Infosys is in the middle of a transformation aimed at limiting the number of employees and increasing the use of automation. Is the golden age of Indian Information Technology over? More […]
Wipro said it will deliver managed mobility services as part of SAP mobile solutions. Wipro’s cloud-based, managed mobility services offering for SAP mobile solutions will span SAP solutions including the SAP Mobile Platform, the SAP Work Manager mobile app and the SAP Mobile Secure solution for mobile device and application management. Wipro already has a […]
Wipro Ltd, India’s fourth largest IT exporter, will help DEN Networks, one of India’s top four cable operators, offer a variety of IT-enabled customer solutions. The tie-up comes in the wake of increasing digitization in which big cable feed providers like DEN are coming into direct contact with customers for billing, channel provisioning and customer […]
Wipro Limited reported IT services revenue of $1,720.2 million, a sequential increase of 2.5% and YoY increase of 8.5%. IT Services revenues in rupee terms was 106.2 billion ($1.8 billion1), an increase of 24% YoY. The numbers are better than those of Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys. TCS had reported growth of 1.9% and Infosys […]
