IT COMPANIES IN INDIA – WIPRO
SOFTWARE COMPANIES IN INDIA – WIPRO
Wipro Limited is a global information technology (IT) services company headquartered in Bangalore city, India. As of 2011, Wipro is the second largest IT services company by turnover in India and employs more than 120,000 people worldwide as of March 2011. Wipro provides outsourced research and development, infrastructure outsourcing, business process outsourcing (BPO) and business consulting services. The company operates in three segments – IT Services, IT Products, Consumer Care and Lighting. It is the 9th most valuable brand in India according to an annual survey conducted by Brand Finance and The Economic Times in 2010. It was founded in 1945 by M.H. Hasham Premji. Currently, the Chairman of the Company is Azim Premji.
The Wipro was established in 1980 as a subsidiary of Wipro means (Western India Products) Limited listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Wipro was initially set up as a vegetable oil manufacturer in 1945 in Amalner, Maharashtra, producing sunflower Vanaspati oil and soaps. At that time, the company was called Western India Vegetable Products Limited. The company logo still contains a sunflower to reflect their original business. During the 1970s and 1980s, the company shifted its focus and began to look into business opportunities in the IT and computing industry, which was at nascent stages in India at that time. Wipro marketed the first indigenous homemade PC from India in 1985. In 1966 Azim Premji, still the majority shareholder as the chairman of the company at the age of 21 and with the passage of time transformed it into one of the largest IT outsourcing services provider of the world.
By 2000, Wipro Technologies emerged as the largest publicly listed software exporter in India and the first software services provider to be assessed at SEI Level 5 in the world. Wipro won the Golden Peacock Innovative Service Award[8] for effective service delivery using state of art technology in 2001. Wipro BPO employs over 22,000, of whom 3,150 are at its Hyderabad campus.