Wipro’s Innovative ”Upgrade-in-a-lab” Model to Help Clients Save around 30% on Cost of PeopleSoft Upgrade
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Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT), today announced that its EAS business unit has engaged with its key clients to upgrade their enterprise application environment using Wipro’s proprietary “Upgrade-in-a-lab” model, which could pave the way for the next version of global delivery in the enterprise application space.
Wipro’s innovative
“Upgrade-in-a-lab” model allows complete customization and retrofitting to be done remotely, resulting in approximately 30% reduction in cost. Leveraging this unique model, Wipro is helping Analogic, a leader in North America for the design and manufacture of high-performance medical and security imaging systems, to successfully upgrade to the latest PeopleSoft 9.0 version from the currently deployed PeopleSoft 7.53 version.
The key highlights of this unique model are that it cuts down the upgrade cost by approximately 30% over the traditional model and provides approximately 60% overhead reduction (infrastructure usage, reduction in involvement of customer teams, etc.), resulting in a higher ROI from their enterprise apps upgrade initiatives.
Commenting on the success of this model, Thor Wallace, VP & CIO of Analogic, said, “We are glad that we chose Wipro as our IT partner. Their in-depth process knowledge and the innovative and cost-effective ‘Upgrade-in-lab’ delivery model are key factors in our upgrade initiative. ‘Upgrade-in-lab’ is not only helping us meet our aggressive upgrade schedule; it will also save us approximately 30% over a traditional offshore upgrade approach.”
Raja Ukil, head of PeopleSoft practice for Wipro Technologies, said, “Wipro is continuously developing innovative solutions to help drive non-linearity for our clients. The benefits accrued to our customers from ‘Upgrade-in-a-lab’ validate our efforts.”
Wipro is offering is also this “Upgrade-in-a-lab” delivery model for upgrade of Siebel and JD Edwards instances.
