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4C will be consolidated as part of Wipro's Salesforce practice, which provides solutions globally around multiple Salesforce clouds and its ecosystem of products

Currently, Salesforce has offices in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Gurugram and Mumbai with more than 2,500 employees

The acquisition will further expand Cognizant's Salesforce practice and is expected to close in the first quarter of 2020

In her resignation, Bhattacharya has indicated that the reason for her resignation is her decision to accept a full time role as chairperson and CEO in another company

Bhattacharya declined to comment, while Salesforce did not immediately respond to a request for comment

According to a recent study by research firm IDC, the Salesforce economy will create 548,400 direct jobs and $67 billion in new business revenues in India, between 2019 and 2024

IDC reports estimate that for 2015 for India, cloud computing accounted for nearly $8 billion in business revenue

Salesforce - now rumoured to be in the race to buy micro-blogging website Twitter - was also in the fray to acquire LinkedIn

To significantly expand its presence in India