Unisys partners with Wipro Technologies

New Delhi, Dec 7: Technology services provider Unisys Corporation today announced a global alliance with Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Ltd, to provide a range of IT services to enterprises and public sector clients.

Under the alliance, Wipro Technologies will work with Unisys to jointly provide deskside and hardware support services and multi-lingual service desk services for global customers.

Unisys estimated share of the five-year contract signed in the third quarter of 2006 is about 27.5 million dollars.

''This integrated delivery engine draws on the complementary capabilities of Wipro and Unisys and provides our customers with a unified global delivery platform for managing their infrastructure outsourcing,'' said Wipro Technologies (Technology Infrastructure Services) Senior Vice President G K Prasanna.

''This will help both Wipro and Unisys drive quantum business improvements for our customers through improved resource management, stronger governance and lower TCO.'' The alliance has already yielded a major engagement in which Unisys will be a subcontractor to Wipro in providing managed services to a Fortune 500 company based in the United States.

Wipro and Unisys will support more than 20,000 of the company's employees in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

Under the terms of its subcontract with Wipro, Unisys as Wipro's subcontractor will provide the client with non-remote support services, including maintenance for desktops and servers; deskside support, equipment installs, moves, adds and changes (IMACs) and tape exchanges at data centers.

Wipro will handle remote services, including remote server management and service desk help desk support.

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