Wipro Awarded 'BTO Partner of the Year 2006' by Mercury

Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) today announced that Mercury Interactive Corporation, the global leader in Business Technology Optimization (BTO) has named WIPRO as their "BTO Partner of the Year 2006" during Mercury World 2006.

Wipro received this award for embracing and creating a world-class BTO service practice. Wipro has successfully demonstrated its commitment to BTO by training thousands of resources and certifying hundreds of consultants on Mercury Application Delivery, Application Management and IT Governance products and in working with Mercury to help their mutual customers optimize the business outcomes of IT.

"We are pleased to honor WIPRO with "BTO Partner of the Year 2006" Award" said Harry Gould, VP of Alliances at Mercury. "WIPRO has shown incredible commitment in working with Mercury to provide robust solutions around BTO that address the needs of our customers."

"Mercury is a Strategic Global Solutions Partner and we are very excited to receive this award. Wipro's focus on Innovation combined with our Testing as Managed Services (TMS)TM Framework has given us the ability to deliver differentiated solutions around BTO to our customers" said Gangadharaiah C.P, Senior Vice President & World Wide Head of Testing Services, Wipro Technologies

"This award is a testament to the results we have achieved with Mercury products. Wipro sees tremendous value for its customers using Mercury IT Governance CenterT and we are pleased to have a very strong relationship with Mercury in this area. Wipro has also leveraged its patented PMO solution called Process Packs ® on Mercury IT Governance Center to deliver industry specific value to our customers." said Suraj Prakash, Vice President - Quality Consulting Group, Wipro Technologies

ABOUT MERCURY

Mercury Interactive Corporation, the global leader in business technology optimization (BTO) software, is committed to helping customers optimize the business value of information technology. Founded in 1989, Mercury conducts business worldwide and is one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies today. Mercury provides software and services for IT Governance, Application Delivery, and Application Management. Customers worldwide rely on Mercury offerings to govern the priorities, processes and people of IT and test and manage the quality and performance of business-critical applications. Mercury BTO offerings are complemented by technologies and services from global business partners. For more information, please visit www.mercury.com.

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