Wipro Launches Hosted Document Management Solution


ORLANDO, Florida and BANGALORE, India, May 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- SaaS Based Solution to Help Organizations Reduce Costs

Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited
(NYSE:WIT) today announced the launch of Hosted Document Management (HDM)
solution - a cost effective enterprise document management offering based on
the Software as a Service (SaaS) model. The solution was developed as a part
of the strategic alliance between Wipro and EMC Corporation and leverages EMC
Documentum Enterprise Content Management 6.5 - helping enterprises address
the need for robust and scalable enterprise content management (ECM)
solutions and to manage the increasing demand for transactional content and
business process efficiencies. The solution is being launched at EMC World,
2009, EMC's international customer conference, being held at Orlando, May 18
- 21, 2009.

Wipro and EMC announced the strategic alliance in 2007 and have jointly
developed innovative solutions that address unique customer requirements
across geographies. With the HDM model, Wipro and EMC will provide end-to-end
document management services resulting in reduced costs and complexity for
the clients. Utilizing EMC Documentum enterprise content management
technology, HDM is built on Wipro's SaaS platform and provides a scalable
solution that simplifies the time-intensive act of data capture, management,
retrieval and archival of business critical documents to make better use of
valuable information assets.

The solution offers high scalability and flexibility and helps accelerate
time- to-market by boarding new customers/processes in 4-6 weeks time. It
allows customers to eliminate initial capital expenditure and reduce cost by
over 30 per cent depending on customer requirements.

"HDM automates business processes and management of transactional content
without having to worry about infrastructure, labor and time to market," said
Jayakrishnan Sasidharan, vice-president, Portals and Content Management,
Wipro Technologies. "This results in substantial cost savings for the clients
and helps address their specific ECM need of managing transactional content
and enhancing business process efficiency," he added.

The HDM solution can be configured to address the content management
requirements of wide range of industries and business processes, including
financial services, human resources, procurement, legal, manufacturing and
real estate applications.

"When we first announced EMC Documentum ECM 6.5, EMC truly raised the bar
for the next-generation of enterprise content management - allowing IT to
address today's exploding content requirements while enhancing enterprise
performance, security and compliance," said Marc Burckin, Vice President
Alliances, Content Management and Archiving Division at EMC. "Wipro is
leveraging the feedback from customers to deliver a cost-effective document
management solution that provides return on investment within six months.
This offering will help large organizations realize the benefits of an
innovative hosted document management solution that can significantly improve
the efficiency of their document intensive business process."

EMC World attendees are invited to experience Hosted Document Management
solution first hand at the Wipro Technologies booth, #246.

About-Wipro

Wipro Technologies, a division of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) is the first 
PCMM Level 5 and SEI CMM Level 5 certified global IT services organization. 
Wipro Technologies was recently assessed at Level 5 for CMMI V 1.2 across 
offshore and onsite development centers. Wipro is one of the largest product
engineering and support service providers worldwide. Wipro provides
comprehensive research and development services, IT solutions and services,
including systems integration, information systems outsourcing, package
implementation, software application development, and maintenance 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 a 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 ADS' are listed on
the New York Stock Exchange, and its equity shares are listed in India on the
Stock Exchange - Mumbai, and the National Stock Exchange.

Forward-looking and Cautionary Statements

Certain statements in this release concerning our future
growth prospects 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 fluctuations in our earnings, revenue and profits,
our ability to generate and manage growth, intense competition in IT
services, our ability to maintain 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, our ability to manage our
international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus
areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks, our ability to successfully
complete and integrate potential acquisitions, liability for damages on our
service contracts, the success of the companies in which we make strategic
investments, withdrawal of fiscal governmental incentives, political
instability, war, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring
companies outside India, unauthorized use of our intellectual property, and
general economic conditions affecting our business and 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 http://www.sec.gov. We 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. We do not undertake to
update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by us
or on our behalf.

For more information, please visit our websites at
http://www.wipro.com and http://www.wiprocorporate.com.

India

    Radhika Mahadevan
    Wipro Technologies
    +91-9945042603
    radhika.mahadevan@wipro.com

    Purvika Anand
    Gutenberg Communications
    +91-9886309173
    purvika@gutenbergpr.com

    US

    Eric Belove
    Wipro Technologies
    +1-732-216-6242
    eric.belove@wipro.com

    Lavanya DJ
    Gutenberg Communications
    +1-212-239-8740
    lavanya@gutenbergpr.com

    UK

    Rahul Kadavakolu
    Wipro Technologies
    +44-792-020-5496
    rahul.kadavakolu@wipro.com

    Shalini Siromani
    Gutenberg Communications
    +44-79-6066-3200
    shalini@gutenbergpr.com

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