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Wipro has merged its analytics business with the advanced technologies service line
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Bangalore: India’s third largest software services exporter Wipro Ltd has undertaken a top-level reshuffle, its second in six months, merged two businesses and created a new business division that will focus on newer technologies such as cloud computing.
Wipro has merged its analytics business with the advanced technologies service line, effective immediately. The merged business unit will be headed by Jeff Heenan-Jalil. Prior to his new role, Heenan-Jalil was head of the advanced technologies business.
As part of the reshuffle, the Bangalore-based company has also promoted Saurabh Govil as its new global head of human resources (HR), taking over the role from company veteran Pratik Kumar.
Kumar, who was also heading the company’s infrastructure engineering business, will continue in that role and also continue reporting to chairman Azim Premji.
Prior to the new role, Govil was senior vice-president of the HR vertical and reporting to Kumar. In the new role, he will report directly to chief executive T.K. Kurien. Wipro has also named K.R. Sanjiv, who was heading the analytics business, as its new chief technology officer.
In response to a detailed email questionnaire from Mint, Wipro said the organizational changes were undertaken to better serve customers.
“Wipro’s analytics and information management (A&IM) services unit will merge with the company’s advanced technologies service line, effective April 1, 2014. The confluence of cloud computing, analytics, mobility and social media is seen as a leading business-technology enabler of the next decade," Wipro said. “This integration is in keeping with Wipro’s concerted effort to address market demand and evolving customer expectations."
The company also created a new business division which will focus on areas such as digital transformation and offer services such as cloud computing. The newly created business unit will be headed by Anurag Srivastava, who was previously chief technology officer at Wipro.
In an October post-earnings interview with Mint, Kurien had said that the company could create a separate business unit that would focus specifically on cloud computing services.
Forrester Research estimates that the global cloud computing market alone will touch $241 billion in 2020.
“In order to better address significant technological shifts and prepare the company for the next phase of ‘business outcomes as a service’ world, Wipro will set up a new business unit called “change the business services" unit. This unit, which will have ‘products as a service’, will address future customer needs," Wipro said.
In October, Mint first reported that Wipro had undertaken a major top-level reshuffle that was triggered by the exit of its computer infrastructure chief Anand Sankaran. Sankaran has since joined Dell Inc., where he is heading the company’s infrastructure management business.
As part of the October revamp, the company had promoted former Infosys veteran Shaji Farooq to head its crucial banking and financial services business.
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