Wipro to sponsor Consortium for IT Software Quality

BANGALORE, INDIA: The Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) announced that Wipro Technologies will sponsor the consortium.

Wipro will become the fourth major sponsor to join the list of industry participants investing in the completion and adoption of CISQ standards in the IT industry. Earlier in 2013, Huawei, Capgemini and CAST all announced their sponsorship support for CISQ.

Wipro is one of the leaders and bellwethers of the India IT industry, and a major player in the global Application Services market. In its leadership role, Wipro has been investing significantly in software quality measurement to ensure that the firm upholds the highest standards in software quality for its clients.

Wipro's sponsorship of CISQ is based on a commitment at the senior executive levels of the firm to drive the state of the art and industry standards for software quality in Application Development and Maintenance (ADM).

The ADM outsourcing industry has matured greatly since the early days of the 1990's, and continues to get more competitive at a global level. The Indian IT industry pioneered global sourcing, partly on the basis of process excellence, codified by the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), which was developed by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University in the United States.

Dr. Bill Curtis, best known for building the CMM at SEI, which was a key driver in the globalization of the Indian IT software industry, has now assumed the role of director at CISQ.