Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited announced that it was named a challenger in the recently published ?Magic Quadrant for Global Business Intelligence and Performance Management Service Providers? report by Gartner Inc.* (Dec 2009). Initiatives evaluated in this new Magic Quadrant Analysis span the Gartner Business Intelligence, Analytics and Performance Management Framework (BAP) across a continuum of tactical to strategic customer needs.

This Magic Quadrant is new and categorizes the market according to the ability of Consulting and System Integration (C&SI) firms to meet the emerging need for global BAP delivery capability in a “seek-model-adapt” fashion. No leaders are identified in this Magic Quadrant.

?In our opinion, our positioning in this report is testament to our capabilities in deploying BAP solutions of strategic relevance across industry and functional processes of global organizations. We have consistently delivered differentiating business value in large transformational engagements, through solutions across the BAP framework, leveraging enterprise information assets.? said K.R.Sanjiv, Global Head and Senior Vice President, Business Technology Services, Wipro Technologies.

?Demand for BI and PM services is strong across industry sectors and for a multiple of technologies and products. Gartner expects this demand to grow in 2010 and be a strong performer in the total C&SI (computing) market, which includes business application services, application development and application implementation services.?, says Alex Soejarto, Research VP, Gartner Research.

?Wipro is well positioned to address this market, with comprehensive portfolio of Analytics, BI and PM offerings and vast experience in defining Information Strategy for global organizations.? Sanjiv added.

Wipro has vast experience in implementing BAP solutions to drive enterprise business transformation initiatives and IT systems transformation. It has evolved advanced delivery models and reduced risk of implementation through proven processes, technologies and delivery excellence initiatives. It has been in the forefront of adoption and building new competencies on advanced technologies (like Social Computing, Video and Text Analytics, to name a few) and aligning it to serve customer specific information needs.

*Magic Quadrant for Global Business Intelligence and Performance Management Service Provider Date: 10 Dec 2009 Authors: Alex Soejarto, Susanne Matson, Neil Chandler.