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[edit] Timeline

Wipro Floating learning Centre, Electronic City 2, Bangalore, India.

 1945 - Incorporation as Western India Products Limited


 1947 - Establishment of an oil mill at Amalner, Maharashtra, India
 1960 - Manufacture of laundry soap 787 at Amalner
 1970 - Manufacture of Bakery Shortening Vanaspati at Amalner
 1975 - Diversification into engineering and manufacture of hydraulic cylinders as
WINTROL (now called Wipro Fluid Power) division in Bangalore.
 1977 - Name of the Company changed to Wipro Products Limited
 1980 - Diversification into Information Technology.
o This is the time the top IT Managers Sridhar Mitta, Dr. Laxman Rao, Venkatesh,
Sadasivam quit in one stoke from the IT division of giant public sector
ECIL,Hyderabad to join Wipro.
 1988 - Crossed the $10 million mark in annualized revenues.
 1990 - Incorporation of Wipro-GE medical systems
 1992 - Going global with global IT services division
 1993 - Busny to achieve the "TL9000 certification" for industry specific quality
standards[citation needed].
o Wipro acquires American Management Systems’ global energy practice.[citation
needed]

o Becomes world's first PCMM Level 5 company.


o Premji established Azim Premji Foundation, a not-for-profit organization for
elementary education.
o Wipro becomes only Indian company featured in Business Week’s 100 best-
performing technology companies.[citation needed]
 1995 - Established Wipro Academy of Software Excellence
 2002
o Wipro acquires Spectramind.
o Ranked the 7th software services company in the world by BusinessWeek
(Infotech 100, November 2002)[verification needed].
 2003
o Wipro acquires Nervewire.
o Wipro Technologies Wins Prestigious IEEE Award for Software Process
Excellence[citation needed]
o Wipro Technologies awarded prestigious ITSMA award for services marketing
excellence[citation needed]
o Wipro wins the 2003 Asian Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise Award.[citation
needed]

 2004
o Crossed the $1 Billion m
o IDC rates Wipro as the leader among worldwide offshore service providers[5]
 2005 - Wipro acquires mPower to enter payments space[clarification needed] and also acquires
European System on Chip (SoC) design firm NewLogic.
 2006 - Wipro acquires Enabler to enter Niche Retail market
 2007 - Wipro acquires US's Infocrossing for 600mn
 2009 - Wipro acquires Gallagher Financial Systems to enter mortgage loan origination
space.
o Wipro stops Semiconductor IP Solutions and closes NewLogic Sophia-Antipolis
R&D, France
 - Wipro Launches ESS - Electronic Security Solutions with Products in CCTV System,
Access Control System and Building Management Systems.

[edit] Major Divisions

Cyber Towers the software landmark of Hyderabad. Located at Madhapur surrounded by many
software majors like Wipro, IBM and Accenture, the building is a huge tourist attraction.

 IT Services: Wipro provides complete range of IT Services to the organization. The range
of services extends from Enterprise Application Services (CRM, ERP, e-Procurement and
SCM) to e-Business solutions. Wipro's enterprise solutions serve a host of industries such
as Energy and Utilities, Finance, Telecom, and Media and Entertainment.
 Product Engineering Solutions: Wipro is the largest independent provider of R&D
services in the world. Using "Extended Engineering" model for leveraging R&D
investment and accessing new knowledge and experience across the globe, people and
technical infrastructure, Wipro enables firms to introduce new products rapidly.
 Technology Infrastructure Service: Wipro's Technology Infrastructure Services (TIS) is
the largest Indian IT infrastructure service provider in terms of revenue, people and
customers with more than 200 customers in US, Europe, Japan and over 650 customers in
India.
 Business Process Outsourcing: Wipro provides business process outsourcing services in
areas Finance & Accounting, Procurement, HR Services, Loyalty Services and
Knowledge Services. In 2002, Wipro acquiring Spectramind and became one of the
largest BPO service players.
 Consulting Services: Wipro offers services in Business Consulting, Process Consulting,
Quality Consulting, and Technology Consulting.

businesses section.

Wipro Technologies is a services provider of technology-driven business solutions that meet the strategic
objectives of global businesses. Wipro has 55+ 'Centers of Excellence' that create solutions around specific
needs of industries. Wipro delivers unmatched business value to customers through a combination of
process excellence, quality frameworks and service delivery innovation. Wipro Technologies, India brings to
you a vast variety of opportunities. Some of the areas of expertise for which we invite professionals are given
below. You may read more about the various businesses within which these areas belong in the businesses
section.

 Microsoft, Mainframe & Internet  Wireless Services / Switching Systems


Technologies  Independent Verification & Validation / Quality
 Functional & Domain Consulting  Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
 CRM / SCM/ ERP / JDE  Banking / Finance / Securities / Insurance
 Enterprise Security  TISP Solutions OSS / BSS
 E-mobility/ Mobile commerce  IT Infrastructure
 Data Warehousing  Open Systems / Databases
 Energy & Utilities / Retail /  Technical Writing /Technical Documentation
Manufacturing  Embedded Systems / VLSI / System Design
 Healthcare/ Life sciences / R &  Web services
D  OS / Computing / Platform Technologies
 Portals & Content Management  Human Resource / Recruitment / Training
 Messaging (Exchange) /  Finance/ Accounts / Auditing
Storage  Marketing/Branding/Communication
 PeopleSoft / SAP / Oracle
 Testing Services
 Legal / Law

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