Wipro creates SAP growth roadmap

BANGALORE: Wipro Technologies has unveiled its roadmap to grow their SAP business identifying three areas of focus - Enterprise Services Oriented Architecture (enterprise SOA), Banking and the Indian mid-market.

Wipro will also enlarge its existing portfolio of SAP services in the utilities industry, SCM and CRM domains.

The two-pronged strategy enables Wipro to strengthen their frontier technology solution areas, while maintaining a strong grip on existing core competencies. Wipro has recently been included in SAP’s elite list of 15 Global Services Partners.

“Wipro has a strong reputation for delivering high-quality solutions to large, small and midsize enterprises, and for providing competencies for SAP applications,” said Suresh Vaswani, president, IT practices, Wipro Technologies. “Becoming a SAP global services partner provides increased opportunities for Wipro to collaborate with SAP to help businesses around the globe adopt a services-based IT approach.”

The partnership will also focus on verticals such as banking wherein Wipro will be targeting the mid-market segment. Some of these solutions will be developed at the SAP Partner Research Centre, which was inaugurated by Dr Henning Kagermann CEO and member of the executive SAP AG and Léo Apotheker, deputy CEO and member of the executive board, SAP AG. at the company’s Electronic City Facility in Bangalore, India.

The visit by the SAP team is a part of the annual summit between the two companies. Apart from being the development hub, the center also doubles up as a solution demonstration facility. It uses the latest interactive technologies to demonstrate cutting-edge solutions. The demonstrations can be instantly customized to meet specific requirements of the visitors.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. Instead of building monolithic applications for each department, a SOA organizes business software in a granular fashion so that common functions can be used interchangeably by different departments internally and by external business partners as well. The more granular the components (the more pieces), the more they can be reused.

Enterprise SOA is a blueprint for an adaptable, flexible, and open IT architecture for developing services-based, enterprise-scale business solutions. With SAP NetWeaver as a technical foundation, enterprise SOA moves IT architectures to higher levels of adaptability – and moves companies closer to the vision of real-time enterprises by elevating web services to an enterprise level.

Analysts have forecast enterprise SOA to be a growth area and this partnership with SAP will enhance Wipro’s strong presence in this business. Wipro has been at the forefront in advising clients on adopting enterprise SOA and has conducted a number of engagements leveraging innovative tools and frameworks developed in-house to address organization-wide enterprise SOA roadmaps.