The move, first announced in March 2014, is expected to generate net annualised cost savings of $175-200 million once fully implemented.
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.
Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty ended almost flat in highly volatile trade on Thursday amid the lack of any immediate trigger. The 30-share BSE Sensex dipped 5.43 points or 0.01 per cent to settle at 66,017.81. During the day, it hit a high of 66,235.24 and a low of 65,980.50.
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.
Companies now require more than just academic marks; they seek students with internship experience or extra certification courses.
India's third largest IT company HCL Technologies on Friday reported a flat year-on-year growth in net profit in the March quarter at Rs 3,986 crore. However, the company posted an 8.4 per cent decline in net profit on a sequential basis, amid rising employee cost and tightening IT spends around the world. The company described the performance as "decent" in view of the global macroeconomic conditions.
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.
Among the Sensex firms, NTPC, Mahindra & Mahindra, Power Grid, Nestle, Tata Motors, ITC, Bharti Airtel and Kotak Mahindra Bank were the major gainers. In contrast, Larsen & Toubro, Wipro, JSW Steel, UltraTech Cement, and Asian Paints were among the laggards.
Among Sensex shares, Bajaj Finserve, ICICI Bank, Bharti Airtel, Bajaj Finance, Sun Pharma, Maruti Suzuki, ITC, and Nestle were the lead gainers. On the other hand, L&T Wipro, IndusInd Bank and TCS and Tata Motors were the lead losers.
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.
IT major Wipro has bagged a three-year "multi-million" Euro deal from Dutch pharma major Akzo Nobel for providing infrastructure management 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.
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.
Software major Wipro's chairman Rishad Premji on Thursday said social media platforms have integrated the world like never before and should be allowed to practice "responsive self-governance" to tackle the menace of hate and misinformation. Premji said technological developments on the digital and social media represent an incredibly powerful opportunity for betterment and the issues arising through its misuse need to be addressed immediately. "Technology, particularly digital and social media, have integrated the world as never before. "They've fostered human connections and solidarity across distances and barriers.
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.
"We see that as a next emerging opportunity. We are positioning ourselves very strongly," Wipro chairman Azim Premji told reporters in Bangalore. He noted the IT sector, whose size was small 20 years ago, had grown substantially and constituted some 27 per cent of the country's exports and some 4-5 per cent of its GDP, indicating that green technologies holds similar business potential.
Wipro Technologies, the country's third largest software services exporter, today said the company might go slow on its campus-hiring plans till demand picks up.
In a step towards complying with the new shareholding norms on promoter holdings, the Azim Premji Foundation said it would sell 35 million shares of Wipro through an auction route, opening on Wednesday.
Just before the actual deployment could take place some time ago, CISF and the business firm could not reach a 'consensus' on the duties to be rendered by the force.
Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty settled with marginal gains on Thursday in a highly volatile trade amid the scheduled monthly derivatives expiry and muted trend in the US markets. The 30-share BSE Sensex closed 86.53 points or 0.13 per cent higher at 66,988.44, registering its third day of gains. During the day, it hit a high of 67,069.89 and a low of 66,610.35.
BusinessObjects, a provider of business intelligence products and solutions, on Monday announced its tie-up with Wipro Infotech aimed at strengthening the latter's position in the business intelligence market
Dalal Street investors became richer by Rs 9.68 lakh crore in five days of market rally, where the Sensex breached the historic 73,000-mark for the first time ever to reach a new record peak, taking the market capitalisation of BSE-listed companies to an all-time high of Rs 376 lakh crore. The 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 759.49 points or 1.05 per cent to settle at a new closing high of 73,327.94 on Monday. During the day, it zoomed 833.71 points or 1.14 per cent to reach its all-time peak of 73,402.16.
Hours after World Bank made public that Wipro has been debarred from doing any business with the global lender, the company's chairman Azim Premji wrote to its over 1,00,000 employees saying that the company had not done anything unethical.
Indian software giant, Wipro said on Thursday that it was developing a low-cost computer that would run on low power and would have inbuilt source of two hours of standby power supply.
The global IT outsourcing services industry is going through a rough patch and Wipro itself is undergoing restructuring to win back lost market share.
Leading information technology company, Wipro has started looking at tapping the booming Chinese IT market, sources said on Friday.
Trading in the equity market this week will be highly influenced by a host of important triggers, with quarterly earnings from IT majors TCS, Wipro, and domestic inflation and IIP data taking the centre stage in dictating the movement in equities, analysts said. Besides, global factors and trading activity of foreign investors will also drive markets. "We are approaching the first quarter earnings season, with HCL Tech, TCS and Wipro set to report their earnings this week.
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