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IT services firm Wipro has secured an eight-year transformation deal with Singapore-based food and agri-business major Olam Group, which is expected to exceed USD 1 billion (about Rs 9,314 crore) in contract value. As part of the broader engagement, Wipro said it will acquire Olam Group's IT and digital services business, Mindsprint Pte. Ltd., for USD 375 million (about Rs 3,494 crore). "Wipro has secured a multi-year strategic transformation deal with Olam Group, a leading USD 50+ Billion Food and Agri-business headquartered in Singapore, employing nearly 40,000 people, and majority-owned by Temasek Holdings. This 8-year deal with Olam Group is expected to exceed USD 1 billion in contract value, with a committed spend of USD 800 million. "As part of this broader engagement, Wipro will acquire Mindsprint, Olam Group's IT services arm," Wipro said in a regulatory filing on Monday. Mindsprint, founded in 2007 and headquartered in Singapore, employs over 3,200 professionals across Ind
Wipro on Monday announced expansion of its business operations in South Korea, with a larger office footprint in Seoul and the launch of an Innovation Lab. With the launch of the Seoul Innovation Lab, Wipro now operates nine such facilities globally. The new lab will focus primarily on technology, automotive, and industrial sectors, supporting use cases such as intelligent product engineering, software-defined vehicles, smart manufacturing, supply chain optimisation, and AI-enabled operations. "Wipro Limited...announced the expansion of its business operations in South Korea, reinforcing the country's position as a strategic growth market for Wipro. The expansion includes an enlarged office footprint in Seoul, the launch of a new Innovation Lab, as part of the Wipro Innovation Network (WIN), and continued investment in local talent to support South Korean clients locally and globally," the Bengaluru-headquartered IT company said in a release. The latest move underlines the country's
IT major Wipro on Thursday announced the launch of a new hub at the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City), Gandhinagar, to deliver advanced AI-powered technology services to global Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) clients. The new facility will initially seat 150 employees, with the flexibility to scale up to 500 seats based on client demand, the company said in a statement on Thursday. The GIFT City hub will support the delivery of advanced solutions across digital banking, capital markets, regulatory technology, risk and compliance, and core platform modernisation. The centre, with Wipro Intelligence -- a unified suite of AI-powered platforms and solutions -- strengthens the company's ability to co-innovate with clients, embed responsible AI across critical financial workflows, and scale secure, domain-led platforms to meet the growing global demand for AI-powered BFSI transformation, Wipro said. "Wipro's presence at GIFT City is a strategic investme
India has the opportunity to become one of the world's most consequential environments for AI application but the country's advantage will be defined by the choices it makes regarding where to apply, diffuse and responsibly deploy the new wave of technology to translate capability into real impact, Wipro Ltd Executive Chairman, Rishad Premji said on Thursday. AI is once in a generation a technology that emerges which doesn't just change "what we do, it truly changes what we must do", he said while speaking at the AI Impact Summit. "How we as a country, how India responds in the next few years, will shape not just our own economic trajectory, but our ability to solve problems that matter to over a billion people," Premji asserted. Stating that the conversation on AI has fundamentally shifted from possibility to practicality, from experimentation to adoption, and from pilots to scale impact, he said this shift matters tremendously, because technology creates value only when it is ...