HP strengthens global alliance with Wipro

HP has announced the further strengthening of its global alliance with Wipro by extending system integration partnership to HP's entire portfolio of HP OpenView suite of software. HP OpenVeiw suite focuses on telecom network management.

This extension of partnership will catapult Wipro into the league of Cap Gemini and Accenture on a global basis.

To start off this expansion of partnership, Wipro will focus on the Middle East, Europe and Asia Pacific markets. Under this alliance, HP and Wipro will together maximise opportunities in the market to deliver remote management services and system integration services.

"Wipro was the first company to have a global tie-up with HP software and we have been successfully developing and deploying management solutions addressed at telecom service providers. Going ahead, Wipro will be the key implementation partner for HP's entire portfolio of OpenView suite of software," said Sandeep Johri, VP (Strategy & Planning), HP Software.

"This alliance will help bring businesses come one step closer to becoming adaptive enterprises by synchronising business with IT help to capitalise on change,"he added.

According to IDC, HP has 21 per cent market share in the network management software space in India and it recorded more than 200 per cent year-on-year growth in the country.

"Further, the system infrastructure software market in India, of which network management software is a category, is expected to grow at a CAGR of 26.7 per cent from 2004 to 2009," Johri quoting IDC highlighted.