The Hindu Business Line : `West Asia, critical to Wipro's global strategy'

WIPRO sees a tremendous synergy in the Indo-Gulf markets and it aims to further strengthen this relationship in the years to come, according to Mr Rajat Mathur, Vice-President, International Operations.

Speaking at the recently-concluded India-Gulf Partnership Summit in Dubai, Mr Mathur said that West Asia and the Gulf were moving into higher value services as IT was increasingly relied upon to drive business momentum.

He said this region formed a critical part of Wipro's global business strategy.

"Our company is extremely committed to building a strong customer base in the UAE and across the region. We are confident that our efforts in bringing best practices will spur healthy growth of ICT industry in UAE," he said.

In 2004-05 alone, Wipro had year-on-year growth of 85 per cent in APAC/Middle East region. In Q2, 2005-06, the company had a growth of 28 per cent in the Asia Pacific/Middle East region.

In Q2 ending September 2005-06, Arab National Bank, Saudi Arabia, selected Wipro as its partner for managing the data centre operations of the `Disaster Recovery Centre'.

In addition Manso Group, a diversified business group in KSA, having interests in petrochemicals, steel, laminates and transportation business has chosen Wipro to Implement Enterprise Application Platform - SAP Enterprise Version.