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Warning over migrant tech skills shortage

News Azim Premji, chairman of Bangalore-based IT company Wipro, recently warned the Western world is "seriously underestimating" the scale of the tech skills shortage it faces. The UK's high tech sector will need tens of thousands extra skilled migrant...

Tags: skills, it workers, migrants, education

[25 Mar 2008]

India's Wipro to create hundreds of UK tech jobs

News In a trend becoming known as 'reverse offshoring' Wipro and Indian rivals Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) are using this tactic as they are forced to expand deeper into western countries to extend their global reach.

Tags: wipro, premji, tax, consultancy

[20 Mar 2008]

UK 'seriously underestimating' tech skills crisis

News Azim Premji, chairman of Bangalore-based Wipro, said poor maths education from primary school onwards is one of the fundamental causes of the shortage of science and engineering graduates in Western countries.

Tags: premji, wipro, education, engineers

[18 Mar 2008]

Sharia insurance firm signs £87m Capita deal

News ¦ Boom town Bangalore ¦ Bangalore's Electronics City ¦ SAP and Wipro in Bangalore It reflects a European shift towards Islamic-compliant financial services, which is seeing western banks offering services compliant with Islam's Sharia law.

Tags: capita, ito, outsourcing, compliant

[04 Mar 2008]

Indian suppliers to double UK IT market share

News India's top five services companies - HCL, Infosys, Satyam, TCS and Wipro - are on course to grow their share of the UK software and IT services market from just under three per cent to seven per cent over the next three years, according to...

Tags: india, deals, suppliers, tech

[23 Jan 2008]

Azim Premji

AS Profile Azim Premji took over Wipro - a $2m hydrogenated cooking fat company - in 1966 at the tender age of 21. They are also expanding outwards from their Indian base to build operations around the world - Wipro recently revealed plans to open a software...

[12 Oct 2007]

Huawei's $1bn R&D pot 'matches Western rivals'

News ¦ Boom town Bangalore ¦ Bangalore's Electronics City ¦ SAP and Wipro in Bangalore One billion dollars worth of R&D spend is a sizeable sum but it pales into insignificance beside the comparative investment of its Western rivals - Cisco...

Tags: r&d, china, huawei

[06 Sep 2007]

India's Wipro to create 500 new UK jobs

News Indian outsourcing giant Wipro is expanding its operations in the UK, creating 500 new jobs in the process. Wipro revealed its expansion plans on Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown's visit to India last week.

Tags: wipro

[23 Jan 2007]

Wipro chief - Indian companies heading for the top

News The already-blurred distinction between Indian outsourcers and the traditional big services companies will soon disappear, the head of tech giant Wipro has claimed. As Indian services companies look at bigger deals and more complex consultancy...

Tags: india

[07 Nov 2006]

Q&A: Wipro chairman and managing director Azim Premji

Comment Azim Premji is chairman and managing director of Indian tech giant Wipro. But the nice thing is that if you compare yourself with Western nations our average salary for an engineer from college is about $7,500 a year - a similar engineer in the UK...

Tags: india

[07 Nov 2006]

CIO Jury: India can challenge the 'big six'

News Likewise, Nick Masterson-Jones, IT director at payments body Voca, said: "Our outsourcing experience with our two Indian IT services providers - Perot and Wipro - has been first-rate. Ten of the 12 CIOs and IT directors on this week's CIO Jury...

Tags: offshore outsourcing, cio jury, india

[03 Aug 2006]

Indian outsourcers warn of rising salary costs

News Warnings about rising salaries have tempered a strong set of financial results from India's leading IT companies - Infosys, Satyam, Tata Consulting Services (TCS) and Wipro - on the back of continuing demand for offshore outsourcing services.

Tags: offshore outsourcing, india

[21 Jul 2006]

Wipro splashes €41m on European acquisition

News Indian outsourcing company Wipro is targeting the global retail sector with the €41m acquisition of Portuguese IT company Enabler. Sudip Nandy, chief strategy officer at Wipro, said the acquisition further expands the Indian company's geographic...

Tags: wipro, india

[01 Jun 2006]

The east Asia story

AS Analysis The Indian outsourcing industry has taken a hit in recent months after sting operations by two newspapers uncovered worrying lapses in the security of customer data but, by and large, it has been another good year of double-digit growth for the...

[26 Sep 2005]

S Ramadorai

AS Profile TCS is the biggest of the Indian IT outsourcers and, on the back of the growing impact of offshoring on the IT services market, S Ramadorai made his debut in the Agenda Setters last year ahead of his main rivals at Infosys and Wipro.

[23 Sep 2005]

Indian tech services firm goes on hiring spree

News TCS, Infosys, Wipro and other Indian services companies have been rapidly growing revenue and employees for the last five years. Wipro, for instance, has experienced a 45 per cent annual growth rate in revenue for five years and has seen its...

Tags: offshoring, outsourcing, tcs, india

[23 Jun 2005]

India's biggest IT firm mulls London float

India's biggest IT firm mulls London float

News In an interview with The Telegraph TCS CEO Subramanian Ramadorai hinted that US regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes Oxley would push the company towards a European or UK listing, despite the fact that its Indian rivals Infosys and Wipro chose...

Tags: offshoring, outsourcing, tcs

[09 May 2005]

Businesses opt for offshore safety with 'big six' outsourcers

Businesses opt for offshore safety with 'big six' outsourcers

News But he warned that confidence in the Indian players, such as Infosys, TCS and Wipro, is increasing among UK business executives and that this could diminish the advantage of the 'big six' western IT firms.

Tags: offshoring, bpo

[14 Apr 2005]

Terrorists target India's offshore IT firms

Terrorists target India's offshore IT firms

News Wipro, India's number two IT company, is headquartered in Bangalore. Tamal Dasgupta, CIO at Wipro, told silicon.com the company has received no information about any specific threat but is watching the situation carefully.

[08 Mar 2005]

Global IT outsourcing deals rocket up to $163bn

Global IT outsourcing deals rocket up to $163bn

News Looking further down the road, we are also seeing the top tier offshore vendors such as TCS, Infosys, and Wipro compete, and win, in head-to-head deals against top tier Western vendors - and the wins are increasingly larger in size," he said in...

[18 Jan 2005]

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