On September 8, 2020, Wipro, a prominent services IT services provider, announced the establishment of a “Digital Innovation Hub” in Dusseldorf, the “IT Services Flagship Center in Europe” in Germany. The hub is said to provide all the services related to “digital transformation enabling the organizations to enhance their skills and opting for talent hunt” across Germany.
Other than that Wipro is also going to collaborate with certain universities in North Rhine-Westphalia. Wipro will also be beneficial for young graduates as there will be a boost in career options among the group, as it was also found that “about 60% of large-scale industries and 90% of small and medium-scale industries lag in digital innovation”.
Further Thierry Delaporte Wipro Chief Executive Officer said, “We will offer our customers in the German and EU market the ability to leverage our global scale, technical expertise, and strategic investments to digitally transform their enterprises”.
The hub will be equipped with a “state of the art and technology-enabled infrastructure” with a high variety of capabilities. Wipro also said that it has bagged a multi-year global automotive software engineering contract from Marelli.” Marelli is the global supplier of the automotive sector with active hubs in Japan, Italy, etc.
The statement said, “The integration synergies of this partnership from across business units will help Marelli drive speed to value and realize its vision of transforming the future of mobility in partnership with its customers”. The agreement that it signed will offer Wipro to enhance all the frameworks and the enterprises which will be used to maintain solid grounds for the establishment of an engineering factory.
Further, it added, “It will help to improve Marelli’s operational efficiency” which will eventually expand the business. Although Wipro is already in an IT partnership with Marelli which helps in enhancing their IT services and proves to be a great team, Wipro is so glad to be chosen as it engineering partner also, claimed by Vinay Firake, Senior Vice President at Wipro. He also added, “With this new engagement, Wipro is confident of driving better business outcomes for automotive consumers, OME’s and Marelli group”.
Following the statement, Wipro has said that it has bagged a multi-year contract from Marelli for global automotive software engineering. Marelli is a global independent supplier in the automotive sector with its operational headquarters situated at Saitama in Japan and Branches at Corbetta in Italy. Over 60,000 employees worldwide, Marelli has 170 facilities and numerous R&D centers across the world, generating an astonishing revenue of 13.4 billion euros in the year 2019.