<p>Indian IT bellwether Wipro Ltd is expanding its operations in Germany and plans to hire about 1,000 techies over the next three years, the global software major said Wednesday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"As Germany is one of our focus geographies, which will play a vital role in driving our growth, we are investing substantially in the region," Wipro chief sales and operations officer for growth markets Rajat Mathur said in a statement from Cologne.<br />The investments will be made to build domain knowledge in growth verticals and hire local talent with delivery and programme management capabilities.<br /><br />"We will strengthen our new business hunting approach to build a structured pipeline of business opportunities over the next three-five years," Mathur said.<br /><br />Foraying into Germany a decade ago, the company provides end-to-end IT services to about 30 enterprises across the European country with 500 software professionals for onsite support.<br /><br />Among its major clients are a global automotive firm, an European utilities major and a large telecom firm.<br /><br />"We see a significant traction in retail, automotive, telecom, healthcare, banking, energy and utilities sectors in the coming years. We are also targetting mid-size enterprises in the region for incremental growth in future," Mathur noted.<br /><br />The company has software development centres in Munich, Meerbusch and Nuremberg, with sales offices in Frankfurt, Cologne and Meerbusch.<br /><br />"Our on-shore data centre at Meerbusch provides a range of IT infrastructure management services to our European and global clients," Mathur said.<br />The data centre can support up to 15,000 mainframes MIPS (million instructions per second) and 4,500 servers for its clients.<br /><br />"In addition, we offer cloud centric and remote based infrastructure management services. We plan to expand the data centre into a full-fledged near-shore services centre for clients in Germany," Mathur said.<br /><br />The company is partnering with the University of Munich to develop technical talent with internships to graduate students from the science/engineering stream at its facilities in India.<br /><br />Industry estimates put Germany's IT market size in 2013 at about $80 billion. Large enterprises across the country are expected to increase their IT investments to address capacity constraints of information and communications technology and revamp legacy systems and IT infrastructure.<br /><br />"There is strong outsourcing demand from mid-size firms. The demand is driven by cost-efficiency requirements and need for high-quality services for enterprise applications that have a direct business impact," Mathur added. <br /></p>
<p>Indian IT bellwether Wipro Ltd is expanding its operations in Germany and plans to hire about 1,000 techies over the next three years, the global software major said Wednesday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"As Germany is one of our focus geographies, which will play a vital role in driving our growth, we are investing substantially in the region," Wipro chief sales and operations officer for growth markets Rajat Mathur said in a statement from Cologne.<br />The investments will be made to build domain knowledge in growth verticals and hire local talent with delivery and programme management capabilities.<br /><br />"We will strengthen our new business hunting approach to build a structured pipeline of business opportunities over the next three-five years," Mathur said.<br /><br />Foraying into Germany a decade ago, the company provides end-to-end IT services to about 30 enterprises across the European country with 500 software professionals for onsite support.<br /><br />Among its major clients are a global automotive firm, an European utilities major and a large telecom firm.<br /><br />"We see a significant traction in retail, automotive, telecom, healthcare, banking, energy and utilities sectors in the coming years. We are also targetting mid-size enterprises in the region for incremental growth in future," Mathur noted.<br /><br />The company has software development centres in Munich, Meerbusch and Nuremberg, with sales offices in Frankfurt, Cologne and Meerbusch.<br /><br />"Our on-shore data centre at Meerbusch provides a range of IT infrastructure management services to our European and global clients," Mathur said.<br />The data centre can support up to 15,000 mainframes MIPS (million instructions per second) and 4,500 servers for its clients.<br /><br />"In addition, we offer cloud centric and remote based infrastructure management services. We plan to expand the data centre into a full-fledged near-shore services centre for clients in Germany," Mathur said.<br /><br />The company is partnering with the University of Munich to develop technical talent with internships to graduate students from the science/engineering stream at its facilities in India.<br /><br />Industry estimates put Germany's IT market size in 2013 at about $80 billion. Large enterprises across the country are expected to increase their IT investments to address capacity constraints of information and communications technology and revamp legacy systems and IT infrastructure.<br /><br />"There is strong outsourcing demand from mid-size firms. The demand is driven by cost-efficiency requirements and need for high-quality services for enterprise applications that have a direct business impact," Mathur added. <br /></p>