Wipro harnesses Oracle to dive into cloud

BANGALORE, INDIA: Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Ltd, on Tuesday announced that it would offer 'w-SaaS', a platform for rapid Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) enablement of business applications using Oracle Grid Computing and Oracle application grid middleware for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs).

The platform will help ISVs enable their 'existing' business applications to operate in SaaS model in a non-intrusive manner with minimal re-implementation, and enable the traditional single tenant application to operate in an efficient multi-tenant mode. This is expected to result in savings of up to 50 per cent of effort for SaaS enablement of existing applications, resulting in up to 10-20 per cent savings in the total cost of ownership, said a press release.

"With Wipro's global service delivery capability, Oracle's platform and strategic insights on world-class performance, this solution can be leveraged across multiple global customers," said Srini Pallia, Sr. VP and global head, Business Technology Services, Wipro Technologies Ltd.

"Our relationship with Oracle enables us to provide ISV's and joint customers, a powerful platform that allows them to improve their revenues in a cost effective manner," he added.

The analyst firm Gartner has forecast the market for worldwide software as a service (SaaS) to reach $8 billion in 2009, a 21.9 per cent increase from 2008 revenue of $6.6 billion.

Oracle has worked with Wipro to offer its technology stack to its ISV partners through this complete platform for accelerated SaaS enablement. Wipro will benefit from the increased SaaS market reach in collaboration with Oracle, said the release.

"The w-SaaS platform, which leverages Oracle application grid products, will help our joint ISV customer base in their adoption of SaaS." said John Gawkowski, VP, Platform Technology Solutions at Oracle.

Wipro expects opportunities for this offering in North America, with growth potentials in the emerging markets of Latin America, Asia Pacific and Western Europe. Energy and utilities, retail, transportation, healthcare and manufacturing sectors would be focus verticals.

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