Bangalore, India and East Brunswick, New Jersey, USA - September 12, 2014:
Wipro Ltd. (NYSE:WIT), a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company, today announced the launch of its Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Oracle Engineered Solutions in Bangalore. This CoE is aimed at delivering future ready systems through application modernization and data center consolidation programs for customers, especially in financial services, telecom, retail, utilities, manufacturing among others.
With organizations increasing their focus on business performance, IT simplification, and lower cost of ownership, integrated solutions are gaining more acceptance in their ability to deliver these benefits. Oracle engineers its hardware and software to work together for optimal performance and reliability.
The Wipro CoE for Oracle solutions has developed an integrated solution framework to optimize, migrate and deploy Oracle's engineered systems, including Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud. These solutions can be delivered on-premise or in the private cloud or public cloud by leveraging Wipro data centers.
Oracle applications and Oracle hardware run best together. And given its 25 years' experience, Wipro is well positioned to deliver integrated Oracle solutions and expertise across the Oracle stack, including Infrastructure services. Wipro has invested in a state-of-the-art Oracle engineered systems Lab to develop these solutions and provide customers a 'Test Bed', enabling a quick and effortless adoption of the platform.
"Wipro is focused on delivering integrated, end-to-end Oracle solutions that leverage Oracle's applications, engineered systems platforms, coupled with our data centre capabilities. Through the complex transformational programs we have delivered for our customers in the past couple of years, we have proven the business value and performance improvements these solutions bring to our clients," said Bhanumurthy B.M., Chief Executive, Application Services and Strategic Alliances, Wipro Ltd.
"Oracle and Wipro have worked together for more than 15 years, to bring the best of both organizations to our clients. Wipro's expertise on Oracle technology spans the entire product stack and this has augmented their business value to our customers. It gives me pleasure to congratulate Wipro on setting up this center so that customers can derive true value from their investments in Oracle technology," said Derek Williams, Executive Vice President, Oracle Corporation.
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" - helping clients create successful and adaptive businesses. A company recognized globally for its comprehensive portfolio of services, a practitioner's approach to delivering innovation, and an organization wide commitment to sustainability, Wipro has a workforce of over 140,000, serving clients in 175+ cities across 6 continents. For more information, please visit www.wipro.com
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