Wipro Positioned in the ‘Winner’s Circle’ in the HfS Blueprint Report on SAP Services

Wipro Positioned in the ‘Winner’s Circle’ in the HfS Blueprint Report on SAP Services 
Company lauded for its SAP-centric innovation and high customer satisfaction levels

Bangalore, Karnataka, India and East Brunswick, New Jersey, United States

Wipro Ltd. (NYSE:WIT), a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company today announced that it has been positioned in the ‘Winner's Circle’ for its SAP Services capabilities by the leading analyst firm HfS Research – for the second successive year.

Wipro’s leadership position was included in HfS Research’s September 2014 report titled “Blueprint Report on SAP Services” authored by Dr. Thomas Mendel, Senior Vice President IT Services at HfS Research. In the report, HfS Research assessed the capabilities of 31 providers of SAP Services along the entire SAP Services value chain, ranging from:

SAP strategy consulting
Planning and implementation of SAP solutions
Managing and optimizing existing SAP environments


This Blueprint report covered the high-profile IT markets and identified relevant differentials between service providers across a number of facets, primarily under two categories - Innovation and Execution - to help clients select the right vendor for their service needs. The Blueprint ratings are based on 850 data points which are crowd sourced from 740 buyers, providers, and advisors/influencers of SAP Services.

HfS notes that Wipro is a top tier SAP Services player and has built one of the largest sets of templates and accelerators to speed up the implementation time and simultaneously ensure the quality of the deliverables. Wipro is able to provide solid expertise at an excellent price which has resulted in very high levels of client satisfaction and client retention rate.

The research highlights Wipro's co-innovation efforts with SAP to build end-to-end capabilities across the full spectrum of SAP technology stack spanning - Big Data, Cloud, SAP HANA and Mobility. It also recognizes Wipro’s deep investments in expanding geographical footprints and building offerings like Managed Mobility & ServiceNXTTM – a next generation managed services platform.

“Wipro is one of the strongest SAP service providers globally and HFS recommends Wipro must be on the shortlist for large SAP projects. Its closely knit business advisory and SAP Innovation capabilities in technologies like HANA & Rapid Deployment solutions have helped customers accelerate business outcomes from their SAP Investments resulting in high satisfaction levels,” said Thomas Mendel, SVP Global IT Services, HfS Research.

Bhanumurthy BM, Chief Executive of Application Business Unit & Strategic Alliances, Wipro Ltd said, “Wipro’s inclusion in HfS Winners Circle reinforces our commitment to Simplify customer business processes as a leader in high value SAP services. Our strategic investments in SAP technologies such as HANA, mobility and cloud, coupled with industry solutions and robust global delivery capability offers accelerated business performance for our customers.”

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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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Wipro Launches Co-Innovation Center for SAP Solutions in Bangalore

Bangalore, Karnataka, India and East Brunswick, New Jersey, United States, Thursday, August 01, 2013 -- (Business Wire India) -- Wipro Ltd. (NYSE:WIT), a leading global information technology, consulting and outsourcing company today announced the launch of the Wipro Co-Innovation Center for SAP Solutions in Bangalore. The focus of this partner research center for co-innovation is to drive innovation based on SAP® solutions. Wipro anticipates that participants in the center will develop best-in-class solutions based on the SAP HANA® platform, as well as next-generation technologies including mobility and analytics to offer integrated offerings based on SAP HANA for customers.

The Wipro Co-Innovation Center for SAP Solutions was inaugurated today by Suresh Senapaty, Executive Director and Chief Finance Officer, Wipro, and Gerhard Oswald, member of the Executive Board and the Global Managing Board of SAP AG, at Wipro's Electronic City campus in Bangalore. This world-class facility, located in Wipro's campus in Bangalore, is equipped with state-of-the-art infrastructure that will enable Wipro - in cooperation with SAP - to develop use cases and conduct customer-specific demonstrations. It will also be a center for providing training and building specific competencies around new SAP products.

Supported by teams of professionals from Wipro and SAP, the new center is expected to provide customers with process-specific business solutions, and thought leadership around existing and emerging SAP solution-based technologies. Wipro will focus on innovating new solutions and use cases for industries, such as utilities, mining, banking, insurance, life sciences, public sector, automotive, consumer goods and retail.

Bhanumurthy B. M., Senior Vice President and Head, Business Application Services, Wipro said, "As customers seek greater value and innovation, it is our endeavour to provide winning solutions in line with future trends. Wipro, in cooperation with SAP, believes in "winning together" by investing in future technologies that deliver business value for our customers. The Wipro Co-Innovation Center for SAP Solutions is an excellent initiative to help drive collaboration along with SAP that we anticipate will benefit our customers tremendously."

"SAP HANA is not only the foundation for SAP solutions like SAP Business Suite but also the next-generation platform that powers new applications to solve advanced customer issues," said Gerhard Oswald, member of the Executive Board, SAP. "Strategic partners such as Wipro will help drive the next stage of customer value by delivering SAP HANA-based applications that help meet our customers' challenges head-on."

Wipro plans to integrate its new Wipro Co-Innovation Center for SAP Solutions in Bangalore with Wipro Co- Innovation Centre in Mountain View, Calif., to offer an extended center of research for customers globally.

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 57 countries. For more information, please visit www.wipro.com.

SAP, SAP HANA and all SAP logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries. Business Objects, BusinessObjects and the Business Objects logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Objects in the United States and/or other countries. Business Objects is an SAP company.

All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.

Wipro 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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Azim Premji Transfers 295.5 million equity shares to His Not-For-Profit Foundation

Chairman of Azim Premji Foundation, Azim Premji, announced that he has transferred 295.5 million equity shares representing 12% of the total shares of Wipro Ltd, held by certain entities controlled by him, to an irrevocable trust. With this transferred amount the trust's shareholding in Wipro will go up to about 19.93%.

Azim Premji foundation is a not for profit organization set up in the year 2001. The goal of the organization is to create and sustain initiatives to contribute to a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society.

The foundation has worked in partnership with various state governments, largely in rural India, to help contribute to the improvement of quality and equity of school education.

Currently the foundation's work is spread across Karnataka, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Pondicherry, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh.

Premji was amongst the billionaires around the world to commit half of their wealth to philanthropy, the “Giving Pledge” campaign recently announced.

The campaign is led by billionaires’ warren Buffett, Bill Gates and others. The campaign is a commitment by the world’s wealthiest individuals and families to dedicate the major portion of their wealth to philanthropy.

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