Wipro [Get Quote] Technologies has announced plans to strengthen its SAP business by focusing on three major areas including enterprise service oriented architecture, banking and the mid-market.

The company has also expanded its SAP services in the utilities industry, supply chain management and customer relationship management domain.

SAP has included Wipro in its elite list of 15 global services partners.

"Becoming a SAP global services partner provides increased opportunities for Wipro to collaborate with SAP to help businesses around the globe adopt a services-based IT approach," said Suresh Vaswani, president, IT practices, Wipro Technologies.

The partnership with SAP will focus on verticals such as banking wherein Wipro will target the mid-market segment.

Wipro will develop some of these solutions at the SAP partner research centre at the company's Electronic City facility in Bangalore.