Bengaluru-headquartered Wipro has decided to elevate Chairman Azim Premji's elder son Rishad as the chief strategy officer (CSO) of its information technology (IT) business from January 1, 2011.
Wipro continues to retain the top position with a disclosure score of 98/100.
In the Sensex pack, HCLTech rose the maximum by 3.12 per cent, followed by ITC which gained 2.73 per cent and M&M went up 2.61 per cent. TCS climbed 2.44 per cent. Tech Mahindra, Wipro, L&T and Maruti were among the other major gainers.
For the March 2017 quarter, Wipro expects revenues from IT services business to be in the range of $1,922 million to $1,941 million.
Wipro Chairman and CEO Azim H Premji received the highest annual remuneration in the company for the fiscal 2006-07. Premji who also holds 79.58 per cent stake in the company, got an annual remuneration of $721,522.
Since a week ago, better-than-expected results from Infosys Limited, Tata Consultancy Services Limited and HCL Technologies Limited sparked a 13 per cent rally in the sector subindex that grinded to a halt on Friday.
Infrastructure major HCC's realty arm, Lavasa Corporation, that has floated a firm, MyCity Technology, in partnership with IT major Wipro, today tied-up with networking leader Cisco to provide Information and Communication Technology services in the newly-created Lavasa city.
With a Score of 95 on 100, Wipro is one of seven IT companies from across the world to find a place in the listing.
Under the terms of the alliance, Wipro Technologies will work with Unisys to jointly provide deskside and hardware support services and multi-lingual service desk services for global customers.
It has replacements ready even for senior managers, in case someone quits.
It is in these segments that the attrition rate is higher. Wipro witnessed an attrition rate of around 17 per cent in the last quarter. Even as the market awaits its results for the June quarter, the company is not willing to take any chance with its employees.
Members of the CCC include world leaders in auto manufacturing, mobile communications and consumer electronics.
Country's third-largest software services firm Wipro has said it has been chosen as the official digital and IT partner for Chelsea Football Club.
Wipro Infotech, the IT products and services division of Wipro, which was recently challenged by international non-profit organisation Greepeace, has finally come out with an e-waste disposal service. \n
'IT companies do not have a large presence there either in terms of market and team. So, the impact of the war will be minimal. But West Asia is an emerging economy.'
On the prowl for more buyouts, software major Wipro would pursue the strategy of acquisitions more aggressively in future along with other initiatives.
Shares of IT services major Wipro on Monday surged nearly 8 per cent after the company reported an 8 per cent growth in consolidated net profit in the December quarter.
Operating margins have been the primary driver of corporate earnings in India in recent quarters, despite revenue growth suffering from weak consumer demand. Companies across sectors have reported a sharp improvement in earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation (Ebitda) margins over the past two years, benefiting from lower commodity and energy prices. Higher margins more than compensated for slower revenue growth, resulting in double-digit growth in net profit for five consecutive quarters.
India's top technology companies will witness a tepid revenue expansion in the third quarter (October - December) of the current financial year (Q3FY24) - along expected lines - on the back of furloughs and no blockbuster deals, even as the momentum gained from Generative AI (GenAI) is likely to take centre stage. IT services and consulting firm Accenture's first quarter numbers in FY24 showed a significant pick up in GenAI spending. It signed new bookings to the tune of $450 million in this space, a surge from the $300 million signed in the whole of FY23.
IT czar Azim Premji has given away almost half of his stakeholding in Wipro, India's third largest exporter of software services, to philanthropy.
The Nifty IT index rose by 5.14 per cent on Friday (January 12), marking its best performance in a day since July 2020, followed by another 1.9 per cent rally on Monday. With this, the index, which tracks the share prices of India's 10 biggest information technology (IT) services companies, has increased 7.1 per cent in the past two sessions. However, the substantial rally in the index occurred at a time when India's four largest IT companies reported their worst quarterly performance in over five years.
The move, first announced in March 2014, is expected to generate net annualised cost savings of $175-200 million once fully implemented.
India's information technology (IT) sector will witness subdued hiring in 2023-24 as macro uncertainties impact demand environment, with clients either taking a pause on spend or stopping discretionary spend, say human resource experts. To begin with, unlike earlier years, the three large IT players TCS, HCLTech, and Wipro have not provided any new hiring targets for the financial year. And Wipro has said that its hiring target will depend on the demand environment.
Wipro, which gets bulk of its topline from IT services, said it expects revenues from that business to be in the range of $1,962-2,001 million in the September quarter.
Technology market research firm Tech Market View said the contract, which is one of Wipro's largest deals group-wide, signals the growing influence of offshore-centric IT-BPO players in large scale UK outsourcing market.
The country's third largest software exporter, Wipro Technologies, on Tuesday said it is looking for an acquisition in the BPO space, which is likely to be the next engine of growth for the IT industry.
The outsourcer said it is supposed to get $8 million from the US firm. Wipro further added that it is in constant talks with the firm to monitor and assess the situation.
The Odisha govt is annoyed with Wipro's lackadaisical attitude.
Wipro is planning to expand into Sri Lanka and Bangladesh to tap the telecom and banking space, by leveraging on its expertise and strengths in areas such as system integration and IT managed services.
Wipro Infotech on Tuesday launched a new wireless notebook, LittleGenius CP, for better mobile computing, featuring Intel Pentium M processor based on 90 nm manufacturing technology.
IT major Wipro has bagged a three-year "multi-million" Euro deal from Dutch pharma major Akzo Nobel for providing infrastructure management services.
The new unlisted firm will include Wipro Consumer Care & Lighting (including furniture business), Wipro Infrastructure Engineering (hydraulics and water businesses) and Medical Diagnostic Product & Services business, Wipro said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange.
India's third-largest IT services firm, Wipro Ltd, has acquired the enterprise mobile TV unit owned by Finland-based leading mobile phone manufacturer Nokia for an undisclosed sum.
Rishad joined the company in June 2007.
The contract, which involves upgrade of LIC's front-end IT application programmes to make these accessible through the web, is said to be worth about Rs 200 crore, and will be done over five years. It is understood that most large Indian IT outsourcing companies, including TCS, Infosys and L&T Infotech, had competed for the contract. It was considered prestigious, not because of its size but because it involved a prestigious public sector organisation like LIC.
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