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Wipro Infotech is set to become the top domestic IT player even as it plans to hire over 7,500 people for its India, West Asia and Africa business this fiscal.
Wipro Infotech posted revenues of about $1.3 billion last fiscal in the domestic market and is close on the heels of the top player, IBM. “We want to do it as early as possible. We have narrowed the gap. We want to be No 1 services company in the country and we will run towards that,” Mr Anand Sankaran, Senior Vice-President and business head, India, Middle East and Africa business, Wipro, told Business Line .
Mr Sankaran said if Wipro Infotech were to grow at the same pace it did last fiscal — at about 30 per cent or nearly double the previous fiscal — it would overtake the topmost player soon. He said Wipro Infotech, which has a hiring team independent from Wipro Technologies that handles the global operations, will ramp up headcount nearly 30 per cent from the previous fiscal.
Mr Sankaran said the company's roadmap to becoming the No 1 IT company has identified eight focus areas. It will also concentrate on top 100 clients, with dedicated account managers, and in the enterprise segment it will have dedicated managers but with multiple accounts.
One of the areas which the company will be replicating will be the CCTNS (crime and criminal tracking network & systems) model throughout the country. Last year, Wipro Infotech, which runs the India, West Asia and Africa business of Wipro Ltd, bagged the Rs 2,000-crore CCTNS project that aims to link police records across the country. Another area Wipro Infotech is focusing on is cloud computing where it plans to make major investments and it also has launched verticals that are extremely India-specific. For example, the infrastructure and engineering vertical which helped it to bag the Lavasa (township) and DIAL (airport) accounts.
In the BFSI segment, Mr Sankaran said his company would work in the areas of analytics, data warehouse and risk management as the core banking systems are a “done and dusted thing.”
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