Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Ltd, has launched its “Innovation Centre” for Testing Services on SecondLife, a popular virtual world. William Martorelli, Principal Analyst, Forrester inaugurated the Innovation Centre on SecondLife along with Gangadharaiah, Sr. Vice President and Global Head for Wipro Testing Services.
The Innovation center will be a replica of the actual lab that is situated at Wipro campus in Electronics City and will provide a one stop virtual view of IP powered solutions offered by Wipro that includes consultancy, test lifecycle accelerators, pre-certification and certification in the areas of Wi-Fi and mobile handsets, test design solutions in banking, securities and Point of Sale, Performance Engineering and Telecom Testing.
The primary objective of this virtual Innovative Centre is to showcase innovative and IP powered solutions to customers and partners situated across the globe besides providing a virtual tour of the testing labs.
“In today’s competitive world, it becomes important to differentiate ourselves with our customers and partners using innovative resources”, said Gangadharaiah. “By launching a virtual center for our testing services, we hope to go one step further and create an environment that has both technology and testing transformational value.”
Wipro’s Innovation Centre aims at incubating unique Testing Solution IPs which ensures 40 to 50 percent cost and capital investments reduction for clients, depending on complexity & scale of projects. It also helps improve and optimize test processes and accelerate application release into the market with about 35 percent estimated effort savings across entire testing lifecycle. These IPs are currently part of Wipro’s PACE program (performance and capital efficiency), a suite of service offerings providing reduced cost and limit capex proposition to clients intending to outsource IT services.
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