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"We see Middle East market moving into higher value services as IT is increasingly relied upon to drive business momentum. Middle East forms critical part of our global business strategy. Our company is extremely committed to building a strong customer base in UAE. We bring in our global experience, domain skills and technology understanding to drive business momentum in our customer engagements. Our efforts in bringing best practices spur healthy growth of ICT industry in UAE".
Wipro is providing Business Intelligence and Data warehousing solution to Thuraya Satellite Communications that will streamline information flow across various applications and will provide a panoramic view of data traffic, segment and corporate performance. Thuraya will be able to consolidate information from various sources for performance analysis, research, decision support and forecasting.
Wipro is a full line IT services organization that offers consulting services, infrastructure provisioning and management services, package implementation, ground up application development, testing, R&D and management services. The company's global IT Services business derives 66 per cent of the business from Global 500/ Fortune 1000 companies. The company recently featured in Forbes Magazine's 'Fabulous 50' Asian companies. Out of 500 companies 50 were short listed based on sustainability and profitability. The study included companies from the Asia Pacific region.
Wipro recognizes Middle East as a strategic market as the company witnessed high growth from this geography. In 2004-05 alone, Wipro had YoY growth of 85 per cent in APAC/Middle East region. In Q2, 2005-06, the company had a YoY growth of 28 per cent in the Asia Pacific/Middle East region.
In Q2 ending September 2005-06, Arab National Bank, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, selected Wipro as their partner for managing the Datacenter operations of their 'Disaster Recovery Center'. In addition Manso Group, a diversified business group in KSA, having interests in petrochemicals, steel, laminates and transportation business has chosen Wipro to Implement Enterprise Application Platform - SAP Enterprise Version.
"Wipro is uniquely positioned to become our customers' strategic IT partner due to our breadth of our offerings, skills and global recognition. We see a strong demand for services like Package implementation, Infrastructure Management, Testing, Application Development and Maintenance and customization services" added Mr. Vaswani.
AMR Research, a renowned global research company ranked Wipro the leader in Remote Data Center Management in its report on low cost and high quality from India, 2004. AMR Research states, "Wipro has the most experience with global customers, strong management backing to grow and improve service". Wipro offers a mix of onsite and offsite System, Network, Server, Storage and Database support".
Wipro started its operations in Middle East region in June 2001. In the subsequent years it expanded its operations in the region to Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait. Today it has built a strong customer base in Middle East. Some of its customers in the region include-Doha Bank, Qatar Petroleum, Gulf Insurance Company, Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority, Al Ansari Exchange, Dubai Metal and Commodity Center, SPC and Dubai Municipality among others. Wipro delivers high end IT services and consulting services to its client in the Middle East region through its two regional offices. One in Dubai Internet City handling operations in UAE, Qatar, Oman and Kuwait, and the second at Al Khobar catering to Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
Posted by Lara Lynn Golden, News Editor
