Wipro Wins 2013 Global, Asian and Indian MAKE Awards

Wipro Ltd. (NYSE:WIT) a leading Information Technology, Consulting and Outsourcing company, today announced that it has been recognized as a winner of the Global, Asian and Indian MAKE (Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise) Awards for 2013. The MAKE Awards are administered by Teleos, an independent research firm based in the United Kingdom. A panel of Global Fortune 500 senior executives and leading experts selected the winners, in each category.

Wipro is a 6-time Global MAKE Winner and 11-time Asian MAKE Winner. Also, this is the ninth time Wipro has been recognized as a leading Indian organization that enhances stakeholder wealth by transforming corporate knowledge into intellectual capital for the enterprise.

Rory Chase, Managing Director of Teleos said: “Wipro Limited consistently ranks in the top tier of global knowledge-driven companies. The firm excels at managing its intellectual capital - especially human capital - and is noted for its intense customer focus. Wipro is using its entire enterprise knowledge to gain the competitive edge."

Acknowledging the recognition, Satishchandra Doreswamy, Chief Business Operations Officer, Wipro Limited, said, “Knowledge Management (KM) at Wipro is a strategic organizational initiative and KM best practices are embedded in our core business processes. Knowledge Management plays a significant role in enhancing our customer experience, improving business metrics and the competency of our workforce. It’s a great honor to consistently be recognized by the MAKE awards. It reaffirms that we are in the right direction of our KM journey.”

“Wipro adopts various innovative techniques like Gamification, Analytics, and Mobility to cater to the knowledge needs of a multi-generational workforce. The objective is to enable Wipro’s customers to benefit from the company’s collective knowledge in addition to the knowledge of the team working on the customer account. Winning the Global, Asian and Indian awards in 2013 is a significant recognition and testimony to our KM program,” added Dr. Hariprasad Reddy, Head of Knowledge Management, Wipro Limited.

About Wipro Ltd.

Wipro Ltd. (NYSE:WIT) is a leading Information Technology, Consulting and Outsourcing 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 140,000 serving clients across 61 countries. For more information, please visit www.wipro.com.

Forward-looking and Cautionary Statements

Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in our earnings, revenue and profits, our ability to generate and manage growth, intense competition in IT services, our ability to maintain our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks, our ability to successfully complete and integrate potential acquisitions, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies in which we make strategic investments, withdrawal of fiscal governmental incentives, political instability, war, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, unauthorized use of our intellectual property, and general economic conditions affecting our business and industry. Additional risks that could affect our future operating results are more fully described in our filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. These filings are available at www.sec.gov. We may, from time to time, make additional written and oral forward-looking statements, including statements contained in the company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and our reports to shareholders. We do not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by us or on our behalf.

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Wipro Recognized as a Best in Class Outsourcing and Consulting Service Provider for 2014

Wipro Ltd. (NYSE:WIT), a leading global Information Technology, Consulting and Outsourcing company, today announced that it has received Readers’ Choice Awards from Consumer Goods Technology (CGT) magazine. Wipro has been ranked among the Top 4 providers in the 'Outsourcing’ category, a move up by two places from rankings published in January of 2013.

In addition to the list of top providers in each category, CGT also spotlights companies that received special honors from readers. In the Breakout Favorites, Wipro was voted the Customer Experience Leader in the Consulting category, a recognition that identifies the one company that received the highest average user satisfaction rating in a category.

"It is an absolute honor to be ranked favorably in these categories. This clearly reinforces Wipro’s continued commitment and opportunity to the consumer goods market," said Srini Pallia, Senior Vice President & Global Head - Retail, Consumer Goods, Transportation & Govt. Business Unit, Wipro. He added, "Helping our Consumer Goods (CG) customers best understand their consumer is of utmost importance to us. Our vision is to continually innovate and provide transformational capabilities in technology, infrastructure and business operations, to enable CG organisations to create better connections and improve their consumer experience, operational efficiency and profitability."

CGT’s readers recorded their votes on the consumer goods industry’s preferred solutions and service providers across 12 categories, which reflect the vast landscape of IT investment opportunities available today.

Wipro’s Consumer Goods expertise spans areas of Packaged Application Services, Application and Infrastructure Management, Business Process and IT Consulting, Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing. Wipro’s dedicated Consumer Goods practice has deep expertise working with Tier 1 companies in the areas of Sales & Marketing, Value Chain Optimization, Digital Transformation, and Analytics driving Insights, across the Food & Beverage, Home & Personal Care, Apparel & Footwear and Agribusiness & Tobacco segments. Wipro provides Systems Integration, Consulting and BPO services, and some of Wipro’s leading solutions for the consumer goods industry include Promax Trade Promotion Management & Optimization solutions, Market Mix Modelling amongst others.

About Wipro Ltd.

Wipro Ltd. (NYSE:WIT) is a leading Information Technology, Consulting and Outsourcing 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 140,000 serving clients across 61 countries. For more information, please visit www.wipro.com.

About Consumer Goods Technology

Consumer Goods Technology (CGT), an integrated media brand, is the leading resource for consumer goods executives looking to improve business performance. Delivering content in print, online and face-to-face, CGT reaches an audience of more than 76,000 consumer goods executives ranging from managers and directors to VPs and CIOs. CGT also covers all major segments of the consumer goods sector, including Food, Beverage, Packaged Goods, Consumer Electronics and Footwear. For more information on CGT, visit www.consumergoods.com .

Forward-looking and Cautionary Statements

Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in our earnings, revenue and profits, our ability to generate and manage growth, intense competition in IT services, our ability to maintain our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks, our ability to successfully complete and integrate potential acquisitions, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies in which we make strategic investments, withdrawal of fiscal governmental incentives, political instability, war, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, unauthorized use of our intellectual property, and general economic conditions affecting our business and industry. Additional risks that could affect our future operating results are more fully described in our filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. These filings are available at www.sec.gov . We may, from time to time, make additional written and oral forward-looking statements, including statements contained in the company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and our reports to shareholders. We do not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by us or on our behalf.

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Flexi Timings or Fixed Timings - Which Is Better At Work?

There are many kinds of companies, manufacturing units, organizations in the society. We cannot say that, either the fixed timings are better or flexible timings. It depends on the companies or organizations requirement of work, and according to that, they plan the timings of work. Previously most of the work environments were in public sector, so the timing of typical 9 to 5 used to work.

Today things are entirely different, the organizations are different, needs are different, so timings are again different. Especially because of globalization, and growth in it and ITES sector is, major responsible for change in traditional time set from 9 to 5. People sitting in India work for clients in U. S and U. K and parts of the world and they have to be available to them at their work hours so the necessity for night shifts and evening shifts.

It all depends on the company and the individual as to what kind of, timings are better at work. The company should not suffer because of the timings and the people working for the company should not also be at stake. So it is all dependent on the individual and the companies’ decision as to what works best for both. Flexible timings in context are beneficial to some companies and some kinds of work not the regular or routine ones.

In case of individuals, each person’s life situation is different and needs are different. So we cannot say that p particular kind of timing either fixed or flexi is best for any one, as per the time, situation and need, sometimes flex will be better and sometimes fixed. It is all variant there cannot be any fixed solution in this matter. Which is better is dependent on time, need, person and organization.

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