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Global Reach
global IT services and products accounted for $3.41 billion. Wipro employs a workforce of more
than 79,000 worldwide.
In addition to well-established vendor relationships with Cisco and Oracle described earlier in
this report, Wipro has a number of lesser-known Bay Area connections:
• Wipro teamed with Salesforce.com in 2006 to develop software tools, frameworks and
methodologies using the Salesforce AppExchange CRM platform.
• Redwood Shores database management system vendor Ingres Corp. launched an opensource
center of excellence within Wipro’s Bangalore facility. (Ingres has also teamed
with Satyam Computer for a global practice to offer open-source solutions to the retail,
pharmaceutical, and government sectors).
• Spectramind call center employees in India analyzed and processed loans for Pleasantonbased
E-Loan. (E-Loan offered customers an opt-out choice if they felt uncomfortable
having the work done offshore, although processing would be slower in the U.S.; 85%
opted for India, cutting E-Loan’s back office costs by 60%.)
• Wipro has integrated South San Francisco-based Actuate Corp.’s enterprise reporting
and performance management applications into its global business intelligence offering
under a reseller agreement.
• Skybox Security of San Jose has partnered with Wipro on managed security, risk
management, and regulatory compliance consulting.
• Z Research, a Fremont company specializing in clustering and virtualization technologies
that enable high-capacity supercomputing and digital data storage (Z Research’s
team deployed the Thunder supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in 2004)
has partnered with Wipro to launch the Supernova supercomputer in Bangalore that will
provide data processing and storage for defense, geological mapping, biotech research,
and high-end animation users.
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