Tech giant, Wipro is celebrating its 25th anniversary of its business partnership with Cisco the worldwide leader in technology that powers the Internet. To commemorate this milestone, Wipro is launching the Cisco Business Unit that would focus on the development and adoption of end-to-end digital transformation solutions that use Cisco technologies for customers. However, this strategic initiative demonstrates Wipro’s promise to its business relationship with Cisco. Also, it is a growth accelerator for the successful and well-established 360-degree partnership of several years.

Oliver Tuszik, Senior Vice President, Global Strategic Partner Organization, Cisco states, “As a key partner, Wipro has consistently innovated its business model by leveraging its diverse Cisco capabilities to deliver end-to-end digital solutions that enable customers’ business outcomes. Wipro has also pioneered the adoption of Cisco’s critical software and digital solutions—not just for its global customers’ usage but to enhance its internal IT architecture as well. With today’s current global challenges and rapidly evolving customer needs, the launch of Wipro’s Cisco Business Unit will ensure that the best of Cisco and Wipro are available to our customers through innovative joint solutions and consumption-based business models.”

The Cisco Business Unit will provide a full stack of industry offerings that is aligned according to customers’ requirements. Key solutions and digital accelerators such as Intent-Based Networking, Hybrid Cloud, Application Transformation, Digital Workplace Virtualization, Security and Enterprise 5G.

Kiran Desai, Senior Vice President and Global Head, Cloud and Infrastructure Services, Wipro say, “Our strategic partnership with Cisco is built on a strong foundation of mutual trust, governance and joint investments in next-generation industry solutions. The Cisco Business Unit, is a step forward in our relationship with Cisco. It will help our customers overcome disruptions in their operations, scale rapidly and transform their IT environments for greater business outcomes. Through our shared vision for delivering best-in-class customer experience, our integrated offerings with Cisco enable an end-to-end solution for digital business.”

Wipro’s Cisco Business Unit would aid the customers adopt digitization, drive customer experience and realize business benefits by rapidly bringing down operational costs, improve time to market. Also, the new unit has a competitive workforce being trained through Cisco professional certifications. Wipro and Cisco have also funded the innovation centres and labs across all major geographies to extend the solution use-cases and deliver projects for customers.

Srini Pallia, CEO – Americas, Wipro comments, “Our 25 years of partnership with Cisco is a testimony to Wipro’s ability to keep pace with changes in the business and technology worlds, and the launch of the Cisco Business Unit reinforces that proficiency. With a focus on driving go-to-market in all our major strategic geographies, Wipro will invest in developing end-to-end platform-as-a-service solutions utilizing the full-stack of Cisco's industry-leading technologies to accelerate the digital journey of our customers from planning to execution.”