Wipro, Open Market to offer e-biz solutions

BANGALORE: Wipro Technologies, a global provider of IT services for the

enterprise and technology markets, and Open Market Inc., a player in integrated

enterprise e-business solutions, have announced a strategic relationship through

which Wipro will use Open Market's e-business suite to provide systems

integration services focused on e-business transformation.

Under the terms of the agreement, Wipro would train over 1,000 of its

implementation experts in North America in Open Market's software. It will

create a business development strategy for Open Market's products in

e-marketing, personalization and content and commerce management. Working

closely with Open Market to identify customers and opportunities, Wipro will

deliver e-business solutions to Fortune 1000 companies, states a press release.

"We're pleased to be working with Wipro to provide strategic e-business

solutions to enterprises," said Open Market president and chief executive

officer Ron Matros. "We've built our business on working with customers to

deeply understand their business objectives, and then provide them the highest

quality systems integration services using the best products and solutions in

the market," said Wipro Technologies e-enabling solutions chief executive V

Rama Kumar.