Wipro Partners With Atheeb Telecom Consortium

September 22nd, 2009 BANGALORE, India - - Expands its Utilities Footprint in North America BANGALORE, India, September 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT), today announced that it has entered into a three year agreement to provide SAP enterprise applications management services for the Aquarion Water Company (AWC), the largest investor-owned water utility in New England and among the seven largest water utilities in United States. The announcement comes close on the heels of Wipro being rated as a Leader in SAP implementation services by an independent research firm - The Forrester Wave(TM): SAP Implementation Providers, Q3 2009.

September 17th, 2009 BANGALORE, India - Arvind Rao, the Chairman, CEO and Co-founder of OnMobile, was yesterday awarded the prestigious Dataquest 'Pathbreaker of the Year 2009' award. It was presented to him in recognition of his contribution to the telecom and information technology industries in creating the biggest telecom VAS company in India.

September 16th, 2009 BANGALORE, India - - Ranking Based on Focus on R&D, Strong Vertical Presence, and Organization Size Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT) today announced that it was named the No.1 service provider in a comprehensive ranking titled "Global R&D Service Providers' Rating", by Zinnov Management Consulting Pvt. Ltd, a leading management consulting firm.

August 31st, 2009 BANGALORE, India - - Platform Will Help Independent Software Vendors Reduce the Cost for Enabling Their Existing Business Applications on SaaS Model Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Ltd (NYSE: WIT), will offer 'w-SaaS', a platform for rapid Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) enablement of business applications using Oracle Grid Computing and Oracle application grid middleware for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). The platform will help ISVs enable their 'existing' business applications to operate in SaaS model in a non-intrusive manner with minimal re-implementation, and enable the traditional single tenant application to operate in an efficient multi-tenant mode.

July 29th, 2009 BANGALORE, India - - Wipro now Certified to Implement end-to-end Solution Operations Standards for clients, Delivering Enhanced Efficiencies, Reduced Down Time and Costs Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) and a global SAP(R) services partner, today announced it has been certified by SAP AG as a provider of solution implementation based on the Run SAP methodology. Wipro is the first SAP partner to be certified globally in the implementation of the Run SAP methodology and has incorporated the methodology into its implementation standards.

June 11th, 2009 BANGALORE, India - Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) today announced that it was named a leader in SOA System Integrator space in the recently published market assessment report "The Forrester Wave(TM): North American System Integrators, Q2 2009 (May 2009) and "The Forrester Wave(TM): EMEA System Integrators, Q2 2009 (May 2009). To assess the state of the EMEA SOA systems integrators market and see how the providers stack up against each other, Forrester evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of top EMEA SOA systems integrators.

May 18th, 2009 ORLANDO, Florida and BANGALORE, India - SaaS Based Solution to Help Organizations Reduce Costs Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) today announced the launch of Hosted Document Management (HDM) solution - a cost effective enterprise document management offering based on the Software as a Service (SaaS) model. The solution was developed as a part of the strategic alliance between Wipro and EMC Corporation and leverages EMC Documentum Enterprise Content Management 6.5 - helping enterprises address the need for robust and scalable enterprise content management (ECM) solutions and to manage the increasing demand for transactional content and business process efficiencies.

May 17th, 2009 BANGALORE, India - First of its Kind Collaboration to Bring Together World Class Bundled BPO Services and Technology Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT) announced that its Business Process Outsourcing division, Wipro BPO has partnered with Oracle for best-of-breed HR platform solutions. Wipro has also selected The Hackett Group (NASDAQ: HCKT), a global strategic advisory firm, to provide empirical data, best practices and world-class performance insights on the development of its innovative bundled solution platform.

May 11th, 2009 BANGALORE, India - In the news release, "Wipro Partners With Atheeb Telecom Consortium" issued on 12 May 2009 06:00 GMT, by Wipro NYSE:WIT over PR Newswire, we are advised by a representative of the company that the first line of the third paragraph, which quotes Mr. Craig Humphreys, has been changed from "Speaking on the deal, Mr Craig Humphreys, VP, Information Technology, said" to "Speaking on the deal, Mr Craig Humphreys, VP, Information Technology, Atheeb, said" Complete, corrected release follows: - Next Generation Services to Help in Commercial Launch of 'GO', the Services Offered by Atheeb Telecom Consortium, KSA The global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT), today announced that it has partnered with Atheeb Telecom for deploying an end-to-end IT solution covering OSS/ BSS and the underlying infrastructure components.

April 7th, 2009 BANGALORE, India - Placement "Based on a Sound Current Offering, Good Market Presence, and an Excellent Strategy" Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) today announced that it was named a leader in global IT Infrastructure Outsourcing in the recently published market assessment report "The Forrester Wave(TM): Global IT Infrastructure Outsourcing, Q1 2009" (March 2009). Forrester included 15 providers in the report - only the strongest global firms with a track record of success in the infrastructure space were included in this report.

September 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Indian IT major Wipro Technologies has partnered with global energy management firm Schneider Electric to market its industrial automation solutions in India. Under the agreement, Wipro will offer an additional commercial channel and outstanding project execution capability Schneider to market and deliver its state-of-the-art solutions.

September 16th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal's ruling Left Front Wednesday said the IT township project involving giants Infosys and Wipro has only been kept on "hold" and not cancelled. "The state government has not abandoned the township project.

April 16th, 2009 JOHANNESBURG - India's Tata Communications Thursday said they had joined a global consortium to build a $600-million cable system to extend faster international connectivity to countries in Africa at cheaper tariff. The network, expected to be ready by 2011, will cover South Africa, Namibia, Angola, the two Congos, Cameroon, Nigeria, Togo, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Cape Verde, Canary Islands, Portugal and Britain, a company statement said.

September 17th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya on Thursday said that the Government would revive plans to build a one billion dollar IT hub, which was earlier, scrapped due to land acquisition problems. The State Government has planned an IT town on the outskirts of Kolkata to host IT giants Wipro and Infosys, and following the issue Bhattacharya said that IT majors, Wipro and Infosys would be given 45 acres of land each near the airport, where they can construct new centres.

July 22nd, 2009 BANGALORE - Wipro Ltd projected revenue of $1.03-1.05 billion from its global IT services for the second quarter (July-September) of this fiscal (2009-10). In a regulatory filing Wednesday, the IT bellwether said the guidance was based on its performance in the first quarter (April-June) when its flagship business division revenue at $1.03 billion showed decline of 1.3 percent sequentially and 3.3 percent year-on-year (YoY).

April 22nd, 2009 BANGALORE - Wipro Ltd has projected $1 billion revenue from its global IT services business for the first quarter (April-June) of this fiscal (2009-10), which is lower than the $1.05 billion in the fourth quarter (January-March) of last fiscal 2008-09. In a regulatory filing to stock exchanges, the IT bellwether said Wednesday the market conditions continued to pose challenges due to the impact of global recession and financial meltdown in the US, which accounts for about 60 percent of its total IT services revenue.

August 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Unitech Wireless has secured a loan of Rs.5,000 crore (about $1 billion) from State Bank of India (SBI) to fund its mobile network rollout, the company said Tuesday. Unitech Wireless is a joint venture between Norwegian telecom giant Telenor and real estate major Unitech.

September 7th, 2009 KOLKATA - The projects proposed by Infosys Technologies and Wipro in a township just outside the state capital has been scrapped, the West Bengal government informed the two IT majors Monday. The projects were to come up in the proposed IT township at Rajarhat near Salt Lake but had become controversial in recent weeks following allegations that land sharks had been involved in acquisition of plots there.

September 17th, 2009 KOLKATA - The West Bengal government Thursday invited IT major Wipro and infosys to start new centres at Rajarhat in the northeastern fringes of the city and promised to give 45 acres of land to each of the companies. "I'm proposing today (Thursday) through the media that we are ready to give 45 acres of land each to Wipro and Infosys.

May 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - J.S. Sarma, a member of the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal, Thursday took over as the chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), succeeding Nripendra Mishra.