Wipro
plans to hire 1,000 employees in Germany over the next three years. The
company serves more than 30 customers in Germany including a global
automotive company, an European utilities major and one of the largest
telecom companies in the country, among others.
Wipro
expects to see significant traction in the retail, automotive, telecom,
healthcare, banking and energy and utilities sectors in the years to
come. To drive stronger incremental growth in the future, Wipro is
looking to address the requirements of medium-sized enterprises in the
region, in addition to its existing focus on large global enterprises.
Rajat
Mathur, chief sales and operations officer - growth markets, Wipro
said, "We believe that Germany is one of our focus geographies that will
play a significant role in driving our future growth and are delighted
to substantially increase our investment in the region."
Wipro
has a three-pronged strategy for Germany. "We are making investments in
building strong domain knowledge in key growth verticals and are hiring
local talent with strong delivery and program management capabilities.
We continue to strengthen our new business hunting approach in order to
build a strong and structured pipeline of business opportunities for the
next 3 - 5 years," he added.
In Germany,
Wipro has IT development centres in Munich, Meerbusch, Nuremberg and
sales offices in Frankfurt, Munich, Cologne and Meerbusch. Wipro has an
on-shore datacenter capability in Meerbusch that offers a broad range of
IT infrastructure management services to Wipro's European and global
customers. Currently, the data centre can support up to 15,000
mainframes MIPS and approximately 4,500 servers for our customers. In
addition, it offers cloud centric and remote based infrastructure
management services. In the short to medium-term, Wipro plans to expand
this facility into a full-fledged near-shore services center for clients
in Germany.
Wipro has partnered with the University of
Munich for a technical talent development program wherein Wipro will
provide internships to graduate students from the science/technical
stream, at its facilities in India.
The size
of Germany's IT market is approximately $80 billion in 2012. Large
enterprises in the country are looking to increase their IT investments
to address capacity constraints of information and communications
technology, and revamp legacy systems and IT infrastructure. In
addition, there is strong outsourcing demand from mid-size companies.
This demand is driven not only by cost efficiency, but also by the need
for high-quality services for enterprise applications that have a direct
business impact.
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