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06 January 2010 ,
Written by Dhruv Tanwar
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The Open Handset Alliance (OHA) is a partnership of over 60 global mobile industry leaders working to accelerate innovation and offer consumers an enhanced mobile experience. Now that it is part of the OHA, Wipro will work to help its customers conceptualize and create devices on the Android platform. It will also provide differentiating solutions and applications translating to faster time-to-market for the clients.
Wipro Technologies is the first PCMM Level 5 and SEI CMM Level 5 certified global IT services organization, and is one of the largest product engineering and support service providers worldwide. It provides comprehensive research and development services, IT solutions and services, including systems integration, information systems outsourcing, package implementation, software application management, and data center managed services to corporations globally. In India, Wipro is well known for its IT solutions and services for the corporate segment, offering system integration, network integration, software solutions and IT services.
Wipro is presently engaged with a number of mobile handset Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), telecom carriers, semiconductor companies, consumer electronics and automotive companies on multiple Android based product developments.
“Joining the Open Handset Alliance will help us turn around Android based products and solutions faster with rich feature-sets,” said Nagamani Murthy, Vice President of the Mobile, Automotive and Consumer Electronics Group, Wipro Technologies.
“With most device vendors now releasing Android based phones, we foresee an impressive growth on this platform. The Open Handset Alliance membership will enable us to satisfy the strong customer demand,” she added.
The company has been focusing on developing differentiated applications on the Android platform along with testing frameworks. Wipro has had a strong Linux background augmented by robust in-house training and proof-of-concepts, which have enabled it to help its customers in releasing Android based products in the market. It offers a wide spectrum of mobile platform expertise ranging from development on industry standards and customer proprietary platforms, device engineering to Application/UI development expertise. It is the world’s largest third party product engineering services provider and was recently rated as the top research and development service provider globally by leading analyst firm Zinnov. |