Wipro becomes global strategic SI partner of salesforce.com
Wipro to offer consulting and implementation services for Salesforce and
AppExchange on-demand applications
BANGALORE, India and SAN FRANCISCO, May 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Wipro Technologies, the global IT services division of Wipro Limited (NYSE:
WIT) announced today that it has entered into a strategic alliance with
salesforce.com, inc. (NYSE: CRM), the market and technology leader in on-
demand customer relationship management (CRM). The alliance will focus on
enterprise customer adoption of on-demand computing, spanning on-demand
application consulting and implementation services, lifecycle management
and support services, and in particular the salesforce.com AppExchange.
Enterprise customers worldwide will benefit from the combination of
salesforce.com's AppExchange on-demand platform and CRM solution expertise
along with Wipro's complete range of IT consulting and system integration
services to address the technology and business requirements of large
organizations.
Wipro intends to deliver industry specific on-demand CRM solutions
globally, building on existing salesforce.com and AppExchange on-demand
solutions, and implement and support end-to-end integrated on-demand
processes across the enterprise.
"Wipro understands the needs and requirements of large global
organizations, having completed hundreds of enterprise implementations
worldwide," said Suchira Iyer, Head of Global Alliances, Enterprise
Applications Services, Wipro Technologies. "As a global strategic SI and
AppExchange partner, we will work with salesforce.com to develop and
deliver on-demand solutions for enterprise accounts globally."
"Wipro brings extensive experience and deep insight to the design and
deployment of strategic technology implementations," said Bobby Napiltonia,
Senior Vice President, worldwide channels and alliances, salesforce.com.
"We are excited to work with Wipro to extend their expertise into on-demand
solutions, which will further accelerate the momentum and adoption of on-
demand computing worldwide."
Wipro and salesforce.com are working together on several major
initiatives that support industry-specific solutions to meet specific
business needs of enterprise customers. Wipro is also developing tools,
frameworks and methodologies based on the salesforce.com AppExchange
platform. AppExchange is the world's first on-demand platform and
application sharing service with which companies can develop, browse and
test drive new on-demand applications and easily install them into their
existing salesforce.com implementation.
About salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand
customer relationship management (CRM). The company's Salesforce suite of
on-demand applications enables customers to manage and share all of their
sales, support, marketing and partner information on-demand. AppExchange,
salesforce.com's on-demand platform, allows customers and partners to build
powerful new applications quickly and easily, customize and integrate the
Salesforce suite to meet their unique business needs, and distribute and
sell on-demand apps at http://www.appexchange.com. Customers can also take
advantage of Successforce, salesforce.com's world-class training, support,
consulting and best practices offerings.
As of January 31, 2006, salesforce.com manages customer information for
approximately 20,500 customers and approximately 399,000 paying subscribers
including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), America Online (AOL), Avis/Budget
Rent A Car (Cendant Rental Car Group), Dow Jones Newswires, Nokia, Polycom
and SunTrust. Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or
other press releases or public statements are not currently available and
may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase
salesforce.com applications should make their purchase decisions based upon
features that are currently available. Salesforce.com has headquarters in
San Francisco, with offices in Europe and Asia, and trades on the New York
Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "CRM." For more information please
visit http://www.salesforce.com, or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE.
Salesforce.com is a registered trademark of, and AppExchange and
Successforce are trademarks of, salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco,
California. Other names used may be trademarks of their respective owners.
About Wipro
Wipro Technologies is the first PCMM Level 5 and SEI CMM Level 5
certified IT Services Company globally. Wipro is one of the largest product
engineering and support service providers worldwide. Wipro provides
comprehensive research and development services, IT solutions and services,
including systems integration, Information Systems outsourcing, package
implementation, software application development and maintenance 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 ADS' 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.
For more information, please visit our websites at http://www.wipro.com,
http://www.wiprocorporate.com.
Forward-looking and cautionary statements
Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth
prospects and our ability to successfully complete and integrate potential
acquisitions are forward looking statements, which involve a number of
risks, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those in such forward looking statements. The risks and
uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to,
risks and uncertainties regarding our ability to integrate and manage
acquired IT professionals, our ability to integrate acquired assets in a
cost effective and timely manner, fluctuations in earnings, our ability to
manage growth, intense competition in IT services including those factors
which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability
to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns
on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration,
restrictions on immigration, our ability to manage our international
operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas,
disruptions in telecommunication networks, liability for damages on our
service contracts, the success of the companies in which Wipro has made
strategic investments, withdrawal of fiscal governmental incentives,
political instability, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring
companies outside India, unauthorized use of our intellectual property and
general economic conditions affecting our industry. Additional risks that
could affect our future operating results are more fully described in our
filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. These
filings are available at http://www.sec.gov. Wipro may, from time to time, make
additional written and oral forward looking statements, including
statements contained in the company's filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission and our reports to shareholders. Wipro does not
undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from
time to time by or on behalf of the company. For further information,
please visit our websites at http://www.wipro.com, http://www.wiprocorporate.com and
http://www.wipro.co.in
SOURCE salesforce.com, inc.
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CONTACT:
Sanjeeth Boloor of Wipro Technologies, +91
9845294767 or sanjeeth.boloor@wipro.com; or Gordon Evans of
Salesforce.com Public Relations, +1-415-536-7608 or
gevans@salesforce.com
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