Wipro increases Toshiba business

Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited, has set up its second offshore development centre in Bangalore for Toshiba Mobile Communications Company, one of Toshiba group companies.

Toshiba Corporation has been Wipro's largest customer from Japan and this new offshore development centre has further strengthened their 10 year old relationship.

Wipro's relationship with the Toshiba Mobile Communications Company started from 2002, when they helped develop mobile phone application software.

Since then there has been a significant increase of business. With the restructuring of the development team into an offshore development centre, Toshiba can take advantage of Wipro's skills coupled with cost advantage.

On this milestone, Koichi Ohya, Chief Specialist for Toshiba Mobile Communications Development Centre said, "We see Wipro as a company that possesses technical skills like those of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) standard as well as offers reliable software services. This time we plan to further increase the scope of work that we do with Wipro and have asked Wipro to develop software applications for our mobile phones."

"Wipro is proud of supplying quality software services to Toshiba, whose handsets are used not only in Japan, but world-wide. Wipro is confidently meeting the deadlines of Toshiba's schedules," said H R Venkatesh, GM, Product Engineering Solutions, Asia Pacific, Wipro.