Wipro to open third delivery centre in China

Wipro to open third delivery centre in China
29 March 2007

Mumbai: Information technology major Wipro Technologies will open its third global delivery centre in China to cater to the growing needs of its multinational clients.

Wipro already has operations in China's Shanghai and Beijing. The Wipro delivery centre has 250 employees in Shanghai and 50 in Beijing.

"We have aggressive plans for China," reports quoted Hiroshi N Alley, chief executive Japan & China operations and president Wipro Japan, as saying.

Alley recently joined Wipro in Tokyo to head China and Japan operations of the company.

"We are expanding our global footprints. We now have delivery centre in Shanghai and Beijing and once we scale up to about 400 to 500 people we are evaluating the third centre and are in the process of finalising it ," he said.

Wipro, which has been operating in Japan since 1995, is a late entrant to China, compared to other three top Indian IT majors - TCS, Infosys and Satyam.

Wipro is eying at eastern Chinese cities like Nanjing and Chengdu in southwest China as major Chinese cities are vying with each other to offer the best business terms to Indian software companies.

"We want to be close to our clients and many of them have major operations in China," Alley said, emphasising that Wipro wanted to serve the multinational clients from both India as well as China.

"This does not mean that we are taking away jobs from India to China," he said.

Hiroshi joins Wipro from BEA where he was their managing director, and headed their Japan operations.

Wipro is a $3.2 billion company, offering services in consulting, R&D, IT, BPO, testing and infrastructure outsourcing. Wipro has a strong presence in Japan and is the preferred partner of many leading corporations. Alley's role at Wipro will be to drive the growth strategy of its Japan and China operations, and provide leadership and guidance to the team in the areas of customer satisfaction, business understanding and quality.

"We believe Alley's strong exposure to a global and multi-cultural work environment, and background in sales, strategy and operations will go a long way in maintaining our leadership position in Japan", said A L Rao, chief operating officer, Wipro Ltd.