East Brunswick, New Jersey, USA and Bangalore, India - September 20, 2016:
Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO), a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company, today announced that it has joined Oracle’s newly announced Oracle Cloud Managed Service Provider (MSP) Program. Wipro is a Diamond level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) and has an OPN Cloud Select designation.
The Wipro Boundaryless Data Center (BLDC) offering is based on an innovative IT transformational approach that enables enterprise ITaaS (IT as a Service) through a universal marketplace. BLDC is integrated with Oracle IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and PaaS (Platform as a Service) services, and provides a unified platform to drive hybrid IT journey for enterprises by enabling dynamic sourcing, automated provisioning, monitoring and management. In collaboration with Oracle, Wipro will build standard reference architectures, workload blueprints and continuous deployment solutions for accelerated cloud transformation.
Kiran Desai, Senior Vice President and Business Head, Global Infrastructure Services (GIS), Wipro Limited said, “We are excited to be a part of the Oracle Managed Services Partner program (MSP), to help enterprises build a scalable hybrid IT model, leveraging Wipro’s Boundaryless Data Center (BLDC) platform to accelerate their digital journey. The BLDC platform provides end-to-end life cycle services across Oracle IaaS and PaaS, to help customers enhance the speed of execution and improve business performance.”
Available to partners who have demonstrated the skills and infrastructure to build, deploy, run and manage both Oracle and non-Oracle workloads, the Oracle Cloud Managed Service Provider (MSP) Program, enables OPN members to offer a complete managed service solution for workloads running on Oracle Platform as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service.
Based on the unique needs of their customers, Wipro can now have the ability to provide a complete, integrated cloud solution, leveraging its Boundaryless Data Center (BLDC) and Oracle’s world-class cloud platform.
“Cloud represents a huge opportunity for our customers to increase innovation and agility, while enabling reduced cost and complexity,” said Sanjay Sinha, Vice President, Platform Products, Oracle. “Oracle’s leading cloud infrastructure, coupled with the services expertise of Wipro, will provide customers with the foundation, they need to accelerate success in the cloud.”
The Oracle Cloud Marketplace offers an intuitive user interface to browse and search for available applications and services, as well as user ratings and reviews to help customers determine the best business solutions for their organization. With its new automated application installation features, customers can easily deploy provider business applications from a centralized cloud interface.
About Wipro Limited
Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) 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 170,000, serving clients across 6 continents. For more information, please visit www.wipro.com
About Oracle PartnerNetwork
Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) is Oracle's partner program that provides partners with a differentiated advantage to develop, sell and implement Oracle solutions. OPN offers resources to train and support specialized knowledge of Oracle’s products and solutions and has evolved to recognize Oracle’s growing product portfolio, partner base and business opportunity. Key to the latest enhancements to OPN is the ability for partners to be recognized and rewarded for their investment in Oracle Cloud. Partners engaging with Oracle will be able to differentiate their Oracle Cloud expertise and success with customers through the OPN Cloud program - an innovative program that complements existing OPN program levels with tiers of recognition and progressive benefits for partners working with Oracle Cloud. To find out more visit: http://www.oracle.com/partners.
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Media Contact:
Sandhya Sutodia
Wipro Limited
sandhya.sutodia@wipro.com
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