Partnerships: Global Alliances

Wipro Technologies

Company Profile:

Wipro Technologies is a services provider delivering IT services, outsourced research and development (R&D), infrastructure outsourcing, business process services, and business consulting to customers worldwide.Wipro has been rated by industry analysts as a leader in global package implementation projects, customer relationship management (CRM) services, and infrastructure management among offshore firms. 

Partnership profile

The EMC-Wipro Alliance provides a seamless integration of solutions and services to help customers store, protect, and optimize their information in new ways.This strategic relationship, which began in 2002, has garnered much success thanks to co-developed solutions that offer cost take-outs, better speed-to-market, and new business opportunities for customers.

The EMC-Wipro collaboration addresses the following IT challenges:

• Enterprise security — With new regulations, increased compliance requirements, and greater threats from security breaches, companies are investing in enterprise security solutions. Together, Wipro and EMC’s security division, RSA, have developed high-quality solutions that address regulatory compliance, monitoring and management, data protection, and user security/authentication.
• Enterprise content management — As companies continue to generate increased levels of enterprise information, they require effective methods to manage this content.Using EMC Documentum as the cornerstone of this joint solution, the EMC-Wipro alliance provides customers with the ability to more effectively capture, manage, and store their information.
• Storage infrastructure — Wipro provides scalable, enterprise-wide, highly secure services and solutions that manage and diagnose a customer's IT infrastructure.Wipro representatives are highly trained on EMC products through EMC Centers of Excellence, which provide technical education on EMC solutions. 
• Virtualization/optimization — Wipro offers customers effective and efficient management of virtualization of servers and any complexity within the environment, and provides increased agility to evolve along with technology.
• VMWare — EMC and Wipro are partnering to offer vertical- and application-specific solutions for customers with VMWare environments. Their joint vertical-specific solutions address content management and information security. Application-specific solutions harness their past collaborations with information infrastructure for SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft.

Value proposition

Customers will be able to leverage value created by the partnership between EMC and Wipro, who have a strategic relationship and strong history of working together in the infrastructure space.Benefits of the partnership include:

• A strong track record — Wipro has significant experience working on EMC technologies and implementing EMC solutions as a System Integrator.
• Intelligent outsourcing — Together, EMC and Wipro offer Total Outsourcing Opportunities by combining EMC's technology and Wipro's services.
• R&D investment — Investment in R&D results in development of new products and solutions as required by customers.
• Strategic engagement — Wipro offers the ability to engage with customers at a strategic level early in the engagement lifecycle to help define requirements as opposed to servicing requirements.
• Industry-specific solutions — Wipro offers industry-specific solutions around EMC core technologies like content management.
• Minimizing costs — Wipro's unique delivery model for networks is a cost-effective and scalable model of managing growth, providing customers significant business value and reduced total cost of ownership (TCO).
• End-to-end support — Wipro has more than 1,000 EMC-certified consultants for total end-to-end support on EMC technologies

Analyst testimonial

“Since security threats are becoming increasingly complex and dynamic, enterprises need a full solution comprising both the technology and services component of security logging, monitoring, and reporting," says Irida Xheneti, research analyst, Security Services, IDC. "Wipro and EMC, have built a unique approach for security monitoring services in a co-managed model with the customer based on the RSA enVision® platform delivered as Wipro’s SOC in a box solution. The customer can get several benefits through by this solution of high flexibility and data privacy assurance combined with lower TCO."