Source: www.sda-india.com

Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited, announced that its Business Process Outsourcing division, Wipro BPO, is setting up a Shared Services centre for AmBev, the largest brewery company in Latin America with leading brands like Brahma, Becks, Stella and Antarctica.

The Shared Services Centre will provide services to AmBev across Latin America in the areas of Finance and Accounting, Order Management, Customer Services and HR Services. The partnership is expected to provide significant financial benefits and leverage transformation opportunities across AmBev operations in the region.

These services will be provided from Wipro’s facility at Curitiba in Brazil.

“The partnership with Wipro will focus on transforming the existing Shared Service Centre and provide services across Latin America for AmBev. We are happy to be a part of Wipro’s expansion plans for Brazil and Latin America,” said Renato Nahas Batista, Zonal Vice President at AmBev.

Source; www.financialexpress.com

Rajendra Saxena - Outsourcing in the Indian IT sector might be on the downslide due to the global financial crisis and recession in the world economy, but the software testing industry and outsourcing in it is growing rapidly. The incessant pressure on increasing the performance of various software is ensuring that the software testing market is getting bigger. The business potential in this industry is also at an all time high.

Typically under software testing, an investigation is done to check the execution and capability of the software programmes for evaluating its performance. “The business potential in software testing area continues to grow, considering the growing complexity of software products and increasing expectations from the end-users demanding the best quality product, along with the increasing number of options available to them,” says Manish Rathi, head, delivery management (Version1.0/ New Venture Services), GlobalLogic Inc.

Software testing, according to Rathi, inherently remains complex and human intensive and software products now require strong domain experience. This has increased opportunities for businesses, which bring in new value propositions in software testing in terms of the processes, technology and business models.

“The size of the software testing industry globally is $13 billion and India has the potential to acquire 60-70% of the world market. The prospects of the software testing industry are very high,” says Vipul Kocher, co-president, PureTesting.

Execution of the various applications at a faster rate in different sectors like airlines, retail, railways, banking, stock markets and the increased dependence of the various businesses on IT has forced software companies to develop a software, which provides quality and accurate results to the end-users.

Gangadharaiah CP, senior vice-president, testing services, Wipro Technologies says, “With clients facing constant pressures to release products and applications faster in the market to ensure competitive advantage, testing phase—which is typically 30% of total software development—is critical to ensure ontime release, within budget and with the agreed level of confidence.”

According to industry analysts, outsourcing in software testing will grow swiftly due to availability of the expert testers and the low cost of testing in India. “The software testing outsourcing market is growing due to availability of a vast talent pool in India. There are more than 20,000 ISTQB certified testers and the low cost has always been an advantage,” says Kocher.

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