Oct 13, 2003: IBM identifies Wipro as major global competitor  
 
India's IT industry has arrived on the world stage. You know that well by now. Now, here's a stunner of a revelation. The world's biggest IT firm, the $81.5-billion IBM, has identified Bangalore-based Wipro Technologies as one of its biggest global competitors in a space where it matters the most and where it sees the highest revenue maximisation potential. (Can Indian IT companies surpass established global ones?)

What's more, IBM has identified Wipro as the only non-American challenger in its planned long march to superstardom as a total solutions power house following its acquisition of consultancy major PwC Consulting last year. Wipro's listing comes alongside global service sector giants Accenture, GE and UPS.

Wipro figures in IBM's corporate war map a notch above several of the world's best-known IT nameplates. IBM has divided its areas of expertise in a three-tier corporate blue-print comprising component value, infrastructure value and business value propositions. In each of those spaces it's also identified competitors against whom it wants to provide 'best-of-breed' offerings to customers.

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IBM identifies Wipro as major global competitor
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