BANGALORE:Best Buy has awarded Wipro Technologies with the Bravo IT award recognizing it as a premier Integrated Solutions partner for the year 2002. This award acknowledges outstanding vendor performance and recognizes those vendors that demonstrate a passion, vision and drive for operational excellence.

"Best Buy is committed to recognizing business partners who have performed above and beyond our expectations," said Best Buy’s Global Sourcing program, IS leader, Todd Soller.

Best Buy, Vice Chairman and CEO, Brad Anderson, presented the award to Team Wipro, including Richard S. Garnick, Chief Executive – Americas’ Field Operations, Srinivas Pallia, -Relationship Manager, Bhaskar Madari – Onsite Manager and Hariprasad Shetty – Program Manager of Wipro Technologies.

Winners were selected on the basis of a variety of criteria including strategic vision, willingness to partner, innovation, customer service, achievement orientation, cultural fit and financial impacts.

"This award recognizes Wipro Technologies’ consistently high quality delivery to Best Buy during the course of this relationship" said Wipro Technologies, Chief Executive – Americas’ Field Operations, Richard Garnick, who received the award on behalf of Wipro.

Wipro Technologies, President, Enterprise Solutions, Sudip Banerjee, said, "The award is a feather in the cap of Wipro Technologies and is testimony to our promise of serving our customers with integrity and innovation through an appealing Global Delivery model."

Wipro Technologies and Best Buy have been working together since April 2001. Wipro has played a pivotal role in key projects including Electronic Subscription Capture, an account payment system for several ISPs offered at Best Buy. It has also offered system integration services to develop a middle-ware application framework and process to integrate several applications at an Enterprise level, Multi Channel Fulfillment – including implementation of various modules of i2, eProcurement using Ariba, and Oracle FA/PA.

Retail Practice at Wipro Technologies combines years of technical experience and domain knowledge to provide solutions to retailers across the globe. Wipro has established Centers of Excellence (CoE) in the areas of POS, Supply Chain Execution, Merchandizing and Pricing to provide best-in-class solutions to our customers. Collaborative commerce, POS solutions, Category management, and Warehouse Management Systems are some of the key solutions offered by Wipro.