India's third-largest software company, Wipro, has initiated a second round of major business and executive changes within a few weeks. A fortnight ago, the company announced the appointment of Suresh Vaswani and Girish Paranjpe as joint chief executive officers of Wipro Technologies, the company's global IT arm.
Wipro may not see good growth in APAC regions in ensuing quarters.
The voting rights with the promoter will ensure the interests of the promoter family as well as minority shareholders are protected in future, said corporate governance advocates and corporate lawyers.
The jury is still out on whether this will lead to re-skilling.
Customers can expect nimbler, more pro-active delivery, says the Wipro CEO.
Wipro is using this in-house innovation to automate internal functions such as helpdesk management
Among the Sensex firms, Wipro jumped over 6 per cent after the IT company's December quarter earnings beat estimates. The other prominent gainers were HCL Technologies, HDFC Bank, Infosys, Tech Mahindra, Bharti Airtel and Reliance Industries.
From the Sensex basket, Mahindra & Mahindra, Maruti, Tata Steel, Bajaj Finserv, Power Grid, Reliance Industries, Axis Bank and JSW Steel were the major gainers. Wipro, Nestle, HDFC Bank and Bajaj Finance were among the laggards.
Wipro BPO has opened a centre in Cebu, the Philippines, as a part of its global strategy.
Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty hit their fresh record levels on Thursday after lower inflation numbers raised hopes of an interest rate cut by the RBI. Besides, heavy buying in capital goods, consumer durable and industrial stocks also helped the indices, traders said. Retail inflation continued its downward slide to reach a one-year low of 4.75 per cent in May due to a marginal decline of prices in the food basket and remained within the Reserve Bank's comfort zone of below 6 per cent, according to government data released on Wednesday.
Benchmark BSE Sensex rebounded sharply by 941 points while NSE Nifty closed above the 22,600 level on Monday on the back of buying in banking and infra shares and a global stocks rally. The 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 941.12 points or 1.28 per cent to settle at 74,671.28. During the day, it zoomed 990.99 points or 1.34 per cent to 74,721.15.
Daily life was partially affected in West Bengal on Wednesday due to a 12-hour shutdown called by the Bharatiya Janata Party, protesting the police action against demonstrators during a march to the state secretariat.
"Our strategic investments, backed by strong client relationships and client spends towards enterprise modernisation and digital transformation have enabled us to deliver a very satisfying quarter," Wipro CEO and executive director Abidali Z Neemuchwala said.
Quantum Corp, a global leader in storage and Wipro Technologies, the global IT services division of Wipro, on Monday announced a strategic pact where Wipro will provide engineering and software design services to augment Quantum's internal storage sy
The all-cash deal is expected to close in the March 2016 quarter.
From the Sensex basket, Tata Steel jumped over 5 per cent. Mahindra & Mahindra, JSW Steel, Tata Motors, Axis Bank, Sun Pharma, Reliance Industries and Maruti were the other biggest gainers. Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services, Titan, Wipro, Hindustan Unilever and Nestle were among the laggards.
As Wipro enters the new financial year, fresh after the organisational restructuring, it has given a muted revenue guidance for the next quarter, which has not gone in well with the market.
Wipro has announced changes in the management structure of its IT business and expansion of its board. The firm appointed Girish Paranjpe, Suresh Senapaty and Suresh Vaswani to the Board of Wipro Ltd. Wipro also re-structured its IT business by appointing Girish Paranjpe and Suresh Vaswani as joint-CEOs. Paranjpe was the president of the banking, financial services & insurance business unit of the global IT business of Wipro. Suresh Vaswani was the president of Wipro Infotech
Wipro Ltd Chairman Azim Premji on Friday said there are "absolutely no plans" to list Wipro Enterprises, the demerged non-IT businesses firm of the group, on stock exchanges.
After HCL Infosystems, another IT major Wipro has decided to shut down its manufacturing of computers and servers due to changing market scenario and consumer preferences.
'When it is unpaid, sometimes, they don't take you seriously.' 'Work is not reviewed, and there is no effort in making interns learn.'
He is betting on emerging firms to generate ideas and build wealth through Premji Invest
Analysts believe that investors should look at stocks that hit 52-week lows only if they have a dividend paying track record, are debt-free and have sound fundamentals.
Wipro's ServiceNXT Operations framework will be utilised to manage PMI's technology and applications infrastructure.
IT and interest rate-sensitive bank, realty, and auto stocks ended with sharp gains.
From the Sensex basket, Sun Pharma, Maruti, IndusInd Bank, Titan, ITC, Tata Motors, Larsen & Toubro and JSW Steel were the major gainers. On the other hand, Infosys, Wipro, HCL Technologies, Tata Consultancy Services, Tech Mahindra and Bajaj Finserv were among the laggards.
Why the consumer care business is still important to IT major Wipro?
From the Sensex firms, Wipro, NTPC, Sun Pharma, Mahindra & Mahindra, ITC and Reliance Industries were among the biggest laggards. IndusInd Bank, Axis Bank, Bajaj Finance, HDFC Bank, Larsen & Toubro and State Bank of India were among the major gainers.
Six years ago, the company discovered an incident of embezzlement of about $4 mn by an employee.
Wipro Technologies, the global IT services division of Wipro Limited, signed a licensing and advanced development deal to jointly develop an advanced mobile and remote workforce management system.
From the Sensex basket, Bajaj Finance, Mahindra & Mahindra, HDFC Bank, JSW Steel, Maruti, Wipro, Bharti Airtel, Bajaj Finserv, ICICI Bank and ITC were the major gainers. Nestle India, HCL Technologies, Larsen & Toubro, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Motors and Infosys were among the laggards.
Among the Sensex firms, Power Grid, IndusInd Bank, Maruti, Wipro, Tata Steel, JSW Steel, Asian Paints, Mahindra & Mahindra, Reliance Industries and UltraTech Cement were the biggest laggards. Hindustan Unilever, Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services and Bharti Airtel were the gainers.
Software services major Wipro, which recently hived off its non-IT business into a separate entity, is betting big on the energy vertical as more companies turn to technology-centric methods for exploration and production of natural resources.
It projected first-quarter revenue for its IT services business to be in a range of $1.58 billion to $1.61 billion - a decline of 0.6 per cent to a rise of 1.6 per cent over the previous quarter.
The business environment is positive, with an uptick in demand, in both domestic and international markets.
An ostensible reason for the demerger was the low profitability of the non-IT business, which was a drag on Wipro's bottom line. It accounts for 14 per cent of the company's turnover but only 6 per cent of its operating profit.
Software-to-soap maker Wipro Ltd plans to reduce its greenhouse gas footprint by half in the next five years. The Bangalore-based company with significant interests in IT, would reduce GHG intensity to 2.5 tonnes per employee by 2015, according to the company's second sustainability report released recently. The GHG footprint for the India operations of Wipro's IT business stands at 4.79 tonnes per employee.
Wipro Technologies has entered into a strategic technology alliance with business intelligence software company SAS to provide a range of business intelligence applications using the SAS intelligence platform.
Reliance Industries Limited is the country's most valued firm with a m-cap of Rs 9,17,953.13 crore followed by TCS Rs 8,04,980.33 crore.
Wipro Ltd resolved to allot 2673 equity shares of Rs 2 each for exercise of stock option by eligible employees.
