Wipro Ltd., a global information technology, consulting and business process services company, says it has been selected by Vestas Wind Systems A/S (VWS.CO), as its strategic IT partner for Workplace Services. Headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark, Vestas is a global energy company that delivers best-in-class wind energy solutions in over 75 countries. Vestas’ core business comprises of the development, manufacturing, sale and maintenance of wind power plants.
Good bye office cube, hello field. Vestas says its employees are moving from a physical and fixed to virtual and flexible work style.
The company defines Workplace Services this way: Technology trends such as social media, mobility, analytics, and the Cloud are redefining the future of the workplace. Users are moving from a physical and fixed to virtual and flexible work style.There is an urgent need to move the business workloads from a stationary cubicle and company controlled desktop screens to a vibrant, dynamic, fluid, anytime and anywhere accessible workspace through any of the screens nearest to you – laptop, tablets, mobiles or in near future even through smart walls of the cubicle and meeting rooms. Enterprises are faced with a wide range of challenges like need for agility and flexibility, cost pressures from the business, rapid technology obsolescence; large and complex upgrade projects and a plethora of tool vendors.
Wipro will deploy its proprietary LiVE Workspace solution for Vestas as part of this multi-year digital transformation engagement. The solution aims to enable a superior computing experience for users, while ensuring data security and also offers users access to applications – anywhere, anytime and on any device. This technology deployment will provide Vestas’ 20,000 employees, spread across 75 countries with an user-centric, collaborative and energy efficient workplace, with smart systems, which will boost business agility. The smart systems include predictive monitoring for faster service restoration, automation and preventive self-heal to minimize service disruptions, and round-the-clock resilient end-user infrastructure.
Torben Høeg Bonde, CIO, Vestas Wind Systems said, “To fulfill our strategy of profitable growth, Vestas believes IT should be business-oriented. We have a vision to create an agile and future-proof workplace platform for all our 20,000 employees. With Wipro as our strategic partner, we are taking an important step to fulfill our ambition towards an Internet-centric IT architecture.”
“Wipro has been chosen by Vestas as their strategic IT partner to transform their Workplace, as part of their digital journey. In this multi-year engagement we will leverage our strong understanding of the manufacturing domain, coupled with our workplace transformation capabilities to improve the end user experience for Vestas’ employees. This deal marks the beginning of a strategic relationship between Wipro and Vestas and will form the foundation of an innovative technology program that will strengthen Vesta’s leadership position in the industry,” said N. S. Bala, President, Manufacturing & Technology SBU, Wipro Limited.
Note: The deal was mentioned in Wipro Limited’s financial results announcement press release, dated April 20, 2016, for the quarter ended March 31, 2016 (Q4 FY15-16), with a description of Vestas Wind Systems, but without naming the company.
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