Wipro Infotech bags contract from Spencer's

Wipro Infotech, which is part of IT major Wipro, today announced that it has won a large IT outsourcing contract from Spencer's Retail Ltd.     

Spencer's Retail Ltd, a part of the Rs 13,500 crores RPG Enterprises, is a multi-format, food-first retailer.     

Spencer's has standalone revenue in excess of Rs 1,000 crores, operates 400 stores in 66 cities and has massive expansion plans of reaching 1,000 stores by the end of 2009.     
Spencer's has selected Wipro for delivering infrastructure management services for five years, a Wipro release said.     

As part of the scope, Wipro is responsible for providing IT infrastructure support for all the stores, distribution centres, regional and zonal offices for Spencer's apart from also supporting future store roll outs over the five-year period.     

"Wipro will leverage its Global Service Management Centre, Mysore to provide real time information through dashboards thus making the entire delivery process more proactive for Spencer's," it said.     

"This IT service delivery transformation will benefit Spencer's with cost efficiencies, enhancing IT system availability and streamlining IT delivery process for Spencer's".