Wipro Centres of Excellence opened

Bangalore, Apr 17(UNI) The Microsoft Corporation and Indian IT giant Wipro today jointly opened two 'Wipro Centers of Excellence' to showcase Microsoft technologies at Wipro's facilities in Bangalore and Mysore.

Speaking on the occasion here, Mr Stephen Elop, President, Microsoft Business Division, said the strategic alliance between two IT services companies would enable their customers to take full advantage of Microsoft's technologies along with Wipro's unique approach to business sytems implementation.

The state-of-the-art centers would provide customers with an informative and interactive experience where they could envision and evaluate specific business and industry-based scenario solutions.

According to strategic alliance between the two companies, the centers would focus on solutions and services on Windows Vista and Microsoft Unified Communications.

''We believe the combination of Microsoft Unified Communications software and Wipro's Industry solutions will redefine the way companies communicate with their customers and within their own organizations'' Mr Elop said.

Commenting on the expansion of strategic alliance, Mr Suresh Vaswani, President Global IT Services Lines, Wipro Technologies, said ''our early and deep access to Microsoft's technology portfolio will also enable us to deliver transformational services and solutions on next generation architectures.'' UNI MV DS 1730