WIPRO PARTNERS WITH GOOGLE CLOUD; CUSTOMERS AND EMPLOYEES TO BENEFIT SIGNIFICANTLY - REPORT! 

With work from home being the new normal, Indian IT giant Wipro has partnered with Google for migration of its enterprise-wide SAP footprint to the Cloud platform. 

This partnership will help in bringing SAP applications and workloads to the cloud to support the firm’s 180,000-plus employees.

While speaking to Economic Times, Bhanumurthy B.M, President and Chief Operating Officer, Wipro said that it is critical that the company’s own core systems and technologies are running on intelligent and modern platforms that encompass the needs of the future because Wipro is a provider of digital transformation services to some of the world’s most impactful businesses. 

“The technology that we're getting into right now, and the kind of design led approach that we are taking, I think customers will benefit significantly from this,” Bhanumurthy told ET.

Meanwhile, Google' Cloud President, Robert Enslin shared his views on the same and said that it is one of the most innovative partnerships announced in the last year. 

“It crosses over cloud into artificial intelligence and machine learning and into the collaborative suite that we are working with today and will shape how we are going to interact in the future," he said. He further added that Google is currently seeing a significant opportunity with SAP customers during the Covid-19 pandemic. 

It is also the fastest growing workload that is increasing capabilities around new data sets, Artificial learning and Machine Learning technology. As per media reports, both the renowned giants- Wipro and Google Cloud have a long track record of working together to help enterprises achieve greater operational efficiency, innovation, and risk mitigation along their cloud offerings.

As the company has recently seen a change of guard with Thierry Delaporte taking over as its chief executive, Chief Operating Officer Bhanumurthy said that he has identified partnerships as one of the pillars for growth over the last few years adding that the right partnership means greater ability to innovate. 

While taking a look into Google, the company has set up a Google innovation arena, where it can demonstrate and customers can experience what it means to go to the Google Cloud. 

“That's the kind of investment that we have done to be able to bring this partnership together, apart from building solutions which can help customers migrate to the cloud very fast,” added Bhanumurthy proudly. 

Reports further suggest that Wipro will soon roll out G Suite for some of their employees as a workplace productivity platform. To which, Enslin of Google said that amid the crisis, companies are getting ready for digital transformation be it financial service institutions, banking etc. 

“We see this general trend with industries where they now need to compete in a different world because supply chains and manufacturing areas have completely adjusted itself. And so enterprise workloads are moving into Cloud providers like Google Cloud, to create more effectiveness, to create more efficiency, bring collaborative tools as well," Cloud President, Robert Enslin said. 

Also, speaking about the added advantages added that the partnership with Wipro is important since it will use AI and ML and generate the next level of innovation.