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Wipro Signs a Five Year Multi-Million Dollar Deal With TUI UK.


BANGALORE, India -- Wipro Technologies Wipro Tech (NYSE: WIT) is an information technology service company established in India in 1980. It is the global IT services arm of Wipro Limited (in operation since 1945, incorporated 1946). , the global IT services division of Wipro Limited (NYSE NYSE

See: New York Stock Exchange
:WIT), today announced that it had been awarded a five year, multi-million dollar contract, for infrastructure support and management by TUI tui: see honeyeater.


(Telephone User Interface) The combination of Touch-tone input from the telephone keypad coupled with speech output from the connected voicemail or IVR application.
 UK. TUI UK is part of TUI AG TUI AG (Touristik Union International) (ISIN: DE000TUAG000) is a German based company. Until 2001 it was an industrial and transportation company named Preussag AG, which in the mid-1990s decided to reinvent itself as a tourism, shipping, and logistics company. , the largest travel company in Europe, with over 3,700 travel agencies, 100 aircrafts and 285 hotels with over 157,000 beds in 25 countries.

As part of the contract Wipro's remote infrastructure practice will be providing desktop support for around 10,000 desktops, 300 servers, L1/L2 helpdesk, monitoring and messaging services across 800 locations in UK for TUI UK.

"We did a detailed evaluation before choosing Wipro. The key for Wipro being chosen as our preferred partner was its vast experience and execution capability in the IT infrastructure space for managing such complex and large projects," said Jim Mann James Joseph Mann (born November 17, 1974 in Brockton, Massachusetts) is an American professional baseball player. A pitcher, Mann played in Major League Baseball with the New York Mets (2000), Houston Astros (2001 and 2002), and Pittsburgh Pirates (2003). , CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.


(Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization.
 TUI Northern Europe. He added: "Wipro offers tremendous flexibility and a good culture fit to our organization. Finally, in Wipro we saw a strategic partner that was ready to go that extra mile."

"We are very pleased to have been selected to work with TUI UK. This is a strategic customer acquisition for Wipro in the infrastructure management space," said GK Prasanna, Vice President Technology Infrastructure Services, Wipro Technologies. "Wipro has been the pioneer in remote infrastructure space and projects such as TUI should help us prove our expertise in delivering complex projects in infrastructure management on a global delivery platform."

Wipro has been recently recognized by IDC, META Group and Forrester Research Forrester Research is an independent technology and market research company that provides its clients with advice about technology's impact on business and consumers. Corporate facts
  • Founded: 1983 by George F.
 as the leading offshore IT services provider globally, a testament to Wipro's service breadth, partnerships, process and technical capabilities and ability to move higher in the value chain of services.

About TUI AG

TUI AG is Europe's largest tourism business and is organised into three European divisions: TUI Northern Europe (TUI Ireland, TUI UK and TUI Nordic), TUI Central Europe Central Europe is the region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe. In addition, Northern, Southern and Southeastern Europe may variously delimit or overlap into Central Europe.  (Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Poland) and TUI Western Europe Western Europe

The countries of western Europe, especially those that are allied with the United States and Canada in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (established 1949 and usually known as NATO).
 (France, Belgium, Netherlands). It has 22 million customers all over Europe, 3,700 travel agents, 81 brands, 88 aircraft spread across six airlines (including Hapag Lloyd Express - German no-frills carrier), 285 hotels, 32 incoming agencies.

TUI UK:

TUI UK is the UK's largest holiday company and includes the leading UK brand Thomson Holidays. It employs around 10,000 people, 7,000 of whom work overseas in around 40 holiday destinations around the world. It is the market leader in the UK inclusive holiday market, a position it has held since 1974.

About Wipro Limited

Wipro Limited is the first PCMM PCMM People Capability Maturity Model
PCMM Packet Cable Multi-Media
 Level 5 and SEI CMM SEI CMM Software Engineering Institute Capability Maturity Model  Level 5 certified IT Services Company globally. Wipro provides comprehensive IT solutions and services, including systems integration, information systems outsourcing, package implementation, software application development and maintenance, and research and development services to corporations globally. In the Indian market, Wipro is a leader in providing IT solutions and services for the corporate segment in India offering system integration, network integration, software solutions and IT services. Wipro also has profitable presence in niche market segments of consumer products and lighting. In the Asia Pacific and Middle East markets, Wipro provides IT solutions and services for global corporations. Wipro's ADSs are listed on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)

World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City.
, and its equity shares are listed in India on the Stock Exchange - Mumbai and the National Stock Exchange, among others. More information is available at www.wipro.com.

For any queries, please contact:

Supratim Sarkar Sarkar could mean:
  • Government in Urdu/Persian/Hindi. Colloquially in India, it is a Metonymy for the incumbent government. The Persian wordSarkar is derived from two words; 'Sar' meaning Head and 'Kar' meaning Work.
, Manager, Strategic Marketing

Ph: +91-80-25056653; email: supratim.sarkar@wipro.com

Forward-looking and cautionary statements

Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects and our ability to successfully complete and integrate potential acquisitions are forward looking statements, which involve a number of risks, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding our ability to integrate and manage acquired IT professionals, our ability to integrate acquired assets in a cost effective and timely manner, fluctuations in earnings, our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services including those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration immigration, entrance of a person (an alien) into a new country for the purpose of establishing permanent residence. Motives for immigration, like those for migration generally, are often economic, although religious or political factors may be very important. , our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks, , liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies in which Wipro has made strategic investments, withdrawal of fiscal governmental incentives, political instability, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, unauthorized use of our intellectual property and general economic conditions affecting our industry. Additional risks that could affect our future operating results are more fully described in our filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. These filings are available at www.sec.gov. Wipro may, from time to time, make additional written and oral forward looking statements, including statements contained in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and our reports to shareholders. Wipro does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement forward-looking statement

A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections.
 that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the company.

For further information, please visit our websites at www.wipro.com, www.wiprocorporate.com & www.wipro.co.in
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