Wipro Tech expands Chennai operations
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Chennai, Mar 31 Wipro Technologies, the gloabl IT services business of Wipro Ltd, is expanding its operartions here by setting up new facilites for 35,000 employees over the next five years. The company is setting up an 80-acre new facility at Sholinganallur-Elcot Special Economic Zone (SEZ) and in a 90-acre facility at the Mahindra City SEZ to augment the business growth in the next five years, Sudip Banerjee, president, enterprise solutions, Wipro Technologies, said here on Monday.
The company currently has 2,500 seats at the facility and expected to increase it by 5,000 to 7,000 this year, he said.
Manpower availability from campuses and of domain experts from various manufacturing and service industries through lateral entry was a major attraction in Tamil Nadu, he said.
Wipro has to expand in its key IT hubs like Chennai to sustain its growth in all verticals and key segments.
The company has 12,000 employees and six offices in Chennai to service its customers in various industries like telecom, automobile, banking enterprise, manufacturing, retail, travel, media, technology and transportation, Chandrasekhar Dharuman vice-president and Chennai centre head said.
He said besides having centres of excellence (CoE), there were teams in broadband, retail, banking, wrieless and consumer electronics. A Japnese competency lab and a global command centre to support multiple customers through a unified service desk were also operational in Chennai.
Wipro has a business process outsourcing centre (BPO) here employing 2500 people.
Wipro has about 4000 employees in overseas centres in Europe, the US, Canada, Latin America, China and Japan.
It provides comprehensive research and development services, IT solutions and services including system integration, information systems outsourcing, package implementations, software application development, and maintenence services to corporations the world over.
