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{{Infobox_Company |
  company_name   = Wipro Technologies |
  company_type   = Public ([[NYSE]]: [http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/lcddata.html?ticker=WIT WIT]) |
  company_logo   = [[Image:WiproLogo.jpg|150px|Wipro Corporate Logo]] |
  company_slogan = Applying Thought |
  foundation     = 1945 | 
  location       = [[Bangalore]], [[India]] |
  key_people     = [[Azim Premji]], Chairman and Managing Director<br />[[Sheela Raj]], Vice Chairman and President<br /> |
  products       = [[Computer hardware]] |
  num_employees  = ~29,500 ([[2004]]) |
  revenue        = [[image:green up.png]]$1.2 billion [[United States dollar|USD]] ([[Fiscal year|2004]]) |
  industry       = [[Computer Services]] |
  homepage       = [http://www.wipro.com/ www.wipro.com]
}}

'''Wipro Technologies''', the Global IT Services division of Wipro Limited {{NYSE|WIT}} (incorporated [[1946]], in operation since [[1945]]) is an [[India]]-based global [[IT services]], [[IT solutions]] and [[technology services]] major. It is headquartered in [[Bangalore]],[[India]] and is listed on the [[Bombay Stock Exchange]] and [[The , [[National Stock Exchange]]( of India)]] and the [[New York Stock Exchange]]. As of [[2004]], it was the 4th largest company in the world in terms of [[market capitalization]] in IT services.

With over 44,000 employees and revenues in the excess of US $ 1.2 billion it makes Wipro one of India's major [[Information Technology]] companies. Wipro has 54 dedicated development centers across India, [[Europe]] and [[United States]], and also has 30 offices in [[North America]], Europe and [[Asia Pacific]].
 
[[Azim Premji]], [[Chairman and Managing Director]] of Wipro is said to have been responsible for expanding and diversifying this company from an [[FMCG]] company which made [[Vanaspati Oil]], [[Ssoap]]s and other [[FMCG]]consumer products into thea IT services company it is nowtoday.
 
Wipro, along with other Indian IT Services Companys like [[Infosys]] and [[TCS]], are spearheading India's booming [[Business Processing Outsourcing]]([[BPO]]) sector.


'''Wipro Limited''' achieved a [[PCMM]] Level 5 and [[SEI]] [[CMM]] Level 5 certification as an [[Information technology|IT]] Services Company in [[1995]].

==Offices and facilities==
Wipro is headquartered in [[Bangalore]], [[India]], in a campus spread across 464,000 square feet (43,000 m&sup2;). Wipro has 54 dedicated development centers across India, Europe and United States, and also has 30 offices in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
Wipro's centres in India are spread across [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]], [[Bangalore]], [[Calcutta]],[[Chennai]], [[Gurgaon]], [[Mumbai]], [[New Delhi]] and [[Pune]].

==History==
Wipro was set up in the backdrop of the small town of [[Amalner]] in Maharashtra in 1945. Primarily an oil factory, the chief products were Sunflower Vanaspati and 787 laundry soap (a by-product of the Vanaspati operations). The company was called Western India Products Limited, with a modest presence in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.

(contracted; show full)*Wipro GE Medical Systems 
*Wipro ePeripherals (WeP)
*Wipro BPO 

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[[Category:Software companies of India]]

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