Infosys, Wipro in pact with Microsoft
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Bangalore, Nov 15 (UNI) Indian IT majors Infosys Technologies and Wipro Ltd today announced separate agreements with Microsoft Corp, the world&#39;s largest software maker, to deliver applications and solutions to their global customers based on Microsoft
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(InfoWorld) - Indian outsourcer Wipro has opened a software development facility in Monterrey, Mexico, to offer services to clients in North America and Latin America in the same time zone and geographical proximity. Wipro made the announcement Tuesday when Mexico's President Felipe CalderÃ³n Hinojosa visited its Bangalore campus. He is in India to promote business collaboration, particularly in IT, between the two countries. Mexico's broad language skills and proximity to Canada and the U.S. helped Wipro decide to establish a presence there. Latin America is also a strong emerging market where many of Wipro's clients operate. Wipro's Monterrey facility will employ 100 people. Some of the center's Mexican staff are already training in Bangalore. Infosys Technologies, another Indian outsourcer, announced last month that it isÂ setting up an IT services and BPO (business process outsourcing) facilityÂ in Monterrey. Indian outsourcers like Tata Consultancy Services, of Mumbai, have also invested in services delivery centers in Latin America with an eye to offering near-shore services to clients in North America and to service the Latin American market. Wipro announced last month that it is setting up a software development center in Atlanta and plans to hire staff for the center from local universities. The center, which will have 500 employees by the third year of operation, will help Wipro in hiring highly skilled workers and domain experts who will be critical to Wipro's business growth plans in the U.S., the company said.
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A number of Indian outsourcing companies, including Wipro, Infosys Technologies and Tata Consultancy Services, have software development operations in Chennai, India.
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Microsoft Corp. on Monday said it has agreed to buy a Thai software vendor that specializes in hospital administration applications, and plans to sell the software in emerging markets.
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The world's largest mobile phone maker, Nokia, and software giant Microsoft struck a deal on Monday to make it easier for consumers to buy digital music on-line and play it back on their handsets.
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India's software association and its Philippines counterpart have signed an agreement to work together in promoting outsourcing in the two countries.
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Wipro Technologies, the global services arm of Indian outsourcing company Wipro Ltd., plans to open a software development center in Atlanta, the company said.
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India's third-largest software company Wipro Ltd. said Friday that its net income for the October-December quarter rose 11 percent from a year ago due to strong outsourcing orders.
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Indian outsourcer WiproÂ is to develop open-source business software and offer system integration services around the open-source database from software vendor Ingres, which will be marketed jointly by the two companies.
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Microsoft has entered into a licensing agreement with the nonprofit Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF) under which the software giant will be providing developers working on the Samba file and printing system with the information they need to ensure interoperability between their open-source software and Windows.
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India&#39;s third largest outsourcer Wipro reported a 32 percent increase in revenue in the quarter ending December 31, but profits grew by only 11 percent over the same quarter last year, reflecting&#160;higher salaries in India, and reduced margins as a result of its&#160;acquisition last year of U.S. IT services provider Infocrossing.Infocrossing&#39;s margins were lower than that of Wipro even before the acquisition, although the company said last year that it hoped to increase utilization at its datacenters by offering the option of hosting in the U.S. to some of its outsourcing clients.Wipro&#39;s revenue for the quarter was 52.36 billion rupees ($1.33 billion) at the exchange rate on the closing date of the quarter, while its profits were 8.26 billion rupees. Wipro&#39;s revenue from its export business, Global IT Services and Products, was 36.14 billion rupees, up by 26 percent over the same period last year.The U.S. economy, which is the largest market for Indian outsourcers, is facing challenges, but there has not been any impact yet on Wipro, Azim Premji, chairman of the company told analysts.Indian largest outsourcer, Tata Consultancy Services, and second largest outsourcer, Infosys Technologies, both reported strong revenue growth for the quarter, despite concerns that the Indian outsourcing industry was likely to be hit by the&#160;weakening of the U.S. dollar. The U.S. is the largest market for Indian outsourcers, accounting for about 66 percent of export revenue, and the rupee has appreciated by about 12 percent against the dollar from the beginning of this year.The appreciation of the rupee against the U.S. dollar pushes down rupee realizations for revenue earned in the U.S. by Indian companies, even as staff costs in India are going up.Wipro got better prices for its services during the quarter, and added 39 new clients, which helped push up its top line. Improved price realizations and productivity also helped counter the impact of the weakening dollar, said Suresh Senapaty, Wipro&#39;s chief financial officer. &quot;We have a healthy pipeline of large deals going forward,&quot; Premji said.The company had 79,832 employees as of December 31, which included 59,925 employees in its IT Services and products business and 19,907 employees in its BPO (business process outsourcing) services business.
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Wipro, one of India's leading software exporters, reports a 65% jump in profits, driven by European demand and a rise in outsourcing.
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Microsoft has licensed its technology for producing wireless networked devices for Vista.
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In a deal sure to bring smiles to the faces of enterprise security pros, Microsoft (Quote, Chart) and Cisco Systems plan to integrate technologies and push for an industry standard to power network security and health policy compliance.
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The UK&#39;s National Health Service (NHS) has signed a software licensing deal with Microsoft Corp. that the NHS says will provide for the development of a user interface specifically designed for the organization
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Microsoft Corp. and Polycom Inc. have struck a multi-year agreement to link Microsoft&#39;s Office Live Communications Server with Polycom&#39;s conferencing products, the companies plan to announce Tuesday.
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Hot on the heels of its 10-year strategic partnership with the London Borough of Newham, Microsoft is close to signing a new broad three-year public sector agreement with the government.