Wipro and SAS Team up for Industry Specific Business Intelligence Solutions

Business Wire, Nov 18, 2004

BANGALORE, India -- Wipro Technologies, the global IT services division of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) has entered into a strategic technology alliance with SAS, market leader in business intelligence software, to provide a range of business intelligence (BI) applications -- from intelligence storage to analytics, data integration, and query and reporting capabilities using the SAS Intelligence platform.

With this alliance, Wipro aims to meet the diverse needs of its customers by effectively leveraging the industry specific intelligence services offered by SAS platform. Both the companies will evolve common solution specific strategy to help companies gain unique and strategic insights into their customers, suppliers and internal infrastructure to drive value and gain a competitive advantage.

Commenting on the strategic alliance with Wipro Limited, George Varghese, Head -- Marketing & Alliances, SAS India Pvt. Ltd. said, "This alliance builds on the complementary strengths of the two companies by combining the global leadership of SAS in the BI space and world-class, consulting, integration & solution delivery capabilities of Wipro, backed by their deep understanding & proven industry domain expertise. This partnership will create business teams which will deliver comprehensive solutions and lead the BI marketplace."

"Our customers are having an increasing need of a comprehensive BI platform addressing their predictive modeling, forecasting and data mining needs of their business data," said Vivek Bhasin, Vice President, Wipro Technologies. He also added that, "The SAS BI platform is a true fit for our customers needs with readily available Industry specific solution sets."

Wipro's business intelligence and data warehouse group works with over 100 global customers providing integrated solutions that empower knowledge workers to access data from existing production databases and applications across the enterprise using the power of advanced data warehousing and decision support solutions and services.

About Wipro Limited

Wipro Limited is the first PCMM Level 5 and SEI CMM Level 5 certified IT Services Company globally. Wipro provides comprehensive IT solutions and services, including systems integration, information systems outsourcing, package implementation, software application development and maintenance, and research and development services to corporations globally. In the Indian market, Wipro is a leader in providing IT solutions and services for the corporate segment in India offering system integration, network integration, software solutions and IT services. Wipro also has profitable presence in niche market segments of consumer products and lighting. In the Asia Pacific and Middle East markets, Wipro provides IT solutions and services for global corporations. Wipro's ADSs are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and its equity shares are listed in India on the Stock Exchange -- Mumbai and the National Stock Exchange, among others. More information is available at www.wipro.com.

About SAS

SAS is the market leader in providing a new generation of business intelligence software and services that create true enterprise intelligence. SAS solutions are used at more than 40,000 sites -- including 96 of the top 100 of the 2003 Fortune Global 500 -- to develop more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; to enable better, more accurate and informed decisions; and to drive organizations forward. SAS is the only vendor that completely integrates leading data warehousing, analytics and traditional BI applications to create intelligence from massive amounts of data. For nearly three decades, SAS has been giving customers around the world The Power to Know(R). For more information, visit www.sas.com

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