Wipro roped in by ABB as strategic transformation partner

Wipro has bagged a five-year contract worth more than $150 million from ABB to drive transformation for its Information Systems digital workplace services.

The Indian IT services provider will help ABB’s Information Systems provide improved, consumer-grade digital experiences for its 105,000 employees in more than 100 countries.

The engagement, which will be centrally led from Switzerland by ABB and Wipro will deliver greater automation and better user experience by means of customized services that are supported by real-time analytics. All these will be wrapped with Wipro’s endpoint security services.

Additionally, Wipro will provide managed services support to ABB by leveraging its LiVE Workspace solution.

Wipro roped in by ABB as strategic transformation partner. Photo courtesy of Rameshng/Wikipedia.org.

Christophe Zajpt — ABB Head of IT Consumer Experience said: “Wipro has been a fundamental part of our IT operations over the past six years and has proven to be a strong partner in our transformation journey of the digital workplace. Their work is critical as it directly touches the lives of our consumers, and our partnership will continue to result in significant digital and technology transformations to our ABB workplace.

“We will enable our employees to ‘work the way they live’, giving them access to their needs at any time, from anywhere, and on any devices with the highest possible speed and the greatest digital experience. IT plays a critical role in the business and has become a competitive advantage.”

The new partnership between Wipro and ABB is said to build on an ongoing digital workplace transformation engagement.

Pierre Bruno — CEO of Wipro Europe said: “ABB is a great example of a business looking to unlock the power of technology to transform. As ABB’s strategic partner we will be driving a forward-looking roadmap that leverages our experience and knowledge of ABB to-date and brings to bear the best of digital and technology transformation practices.

“We share a goal of elevating the end user experience and ultimately making a positive impact in the lives of ABB’s employees through Digital Workplace Services.”