Bangalore, India, East Brunswick, New Jersey USA, & Radnor, Pennsylvania USA - May 4, 2016:
Wipro Ltd. (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO), a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company, and Qlik® (NASDAQ: QLIK), a leader in visual analytics, today announced that the companies have extended their partnership to a global alliance and will work together to offer advanced enterprise analytics solutions to joint customers across industry sectors.
Wipro's competency in delivering end-to-end Business Intelligence (BI) solutions combined with QlikView®, Qlik's market-leading data discovery solution, will widen the scope and scale of visualization solutions offered to customers.
Wipro and Qlik have already developed several value-added BI and analytics solutions for customers, including a Field Performance Measurement Solution that provides business managers with a single view of the field agents' performances. This solution, powered by Qlik, was developed by Wipro to visualize field scheduling system data in order to devise Key Performance Indicators.
Commenting on the partnership Pallab Deb, Vice President and Global Head - Analytics, Wipro Limited said, "Data Visualization enables faster and better decision making for businesses and that is the reason why organizations across the globe are investing in newer and more sophisticated business intelligence solutions that incorporate visualization tools. QlikView® is a great platform. Wipro's SNIPE-BI Transformation and Smart View business intelligence solutions, powered by Qlik's advanced visual analytics platform, coupled with our global services network and implementation expertise will help us deliver increased value and higher ROI to our customers."
As part of this expanded alliance, QlikView is now fully integrated into Wipro's SmartView - ServiceNXT analytics solution which converts complex data to easy visuals, leading to simplified decision making. This integrated environment will result in customized offerings that will help organizations model, optimize, forecast, budget, execute, manage, and measure product and customer performance across the globe at the click of a button.
In addition, QlikView has been integrated into Wipro's SNIPE-BI Transformation Solution, which empowers enterprises to simplify the BI landscape by standardizing and setting up the right set of governance, processes and policies with robust migration frameworks, tools, and accelerators to assist in seamless transformation journeys.
Wipro and Qlik will jointly bring these solutions to market. The companies will collaborate and drive the resultant synergies to customers to deliver a self-service analytics culture. The companies have been jointly hosting several initiatives to upskill and cross-skill resources from Wipro, including Innovation Days and Qlik Academy courses.
"Our relationship with Wipro is creating competitive advantages for our customers by helping them to deploy end-to-end, data-driven solutions for their analytics needs," said Toni Adams, Senior Vice President, Partners and Alliances, Qlik. "With this strengthened alliance, we are focused on building and delivering solutions and services that are the foundational elements for the deep insight necessary to make the promise of agile business a reality."
About Wipro Ltd.
Wipro Ltd. (NYSE:WIT) is a leading information technology, consulting and business process services company that delivers solutions to enable its clients do business better. Wipro delivers winning business outcomes through its deep industry experience and a 360 degree view of "Business through Technology.” By combining digital strategy, customer centric design, advanced analytics and product engineering approach, Wipro helps its clients create successful and adaptive businesses. A company recognized globally for its comprehensive portfolio of services, strong commitment to sustainability and good corporate citizenship, Wipro has a dedicated workforce of over 160,000, serving clients in 175+ cities across 6 continents. For more information, please visit www.wipro.com
About Qlik
Qlik (NASDAQ: QLIK) is a leader in visual analytics. Its portfolio of products meets customers' growing needs from reporting and self-service visual analysis to guided, embedded and custom analytics. Approximately 39,000 customers rely on Qlik solutions to gain meaning out of information from varied sources, exploring the hidden relationships within data that lead to insights that ignite good ideas. Headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, Qlik has offices around the world with more than 1700 partners covering more than 100 countries.
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