Wipro Technologies is planning to set up a strategic delivery center in South
Africa and create opportunities in the region for around 1,000 skilled
professionals in the next 3 years.
Wipro has selected South Africa as a market for potential growth and created a
special structure to drive global presence and business growth in these focus
geographies.
Africa offers major opportunities for IT service companies. South Africa’s IT
spending is projected to increase from $10.7 billion in 2011 to 17.4 billion in
2015. The largest industries contributing to South Africa’s GDP include
financial services, business services and manufacturing.
The South African government has launched a number of initiatives to drive IT
sector growth and bolster the position of the nation in the global economy. The
country is a gateway to other countries in the EMEA region and Wipro has built
up significant traction in telecom, financial services and oil and gas
industries in Africa.
Its large talent pool with multi-lingual skills, proximity to the Middle East
and Europe, and cultural and business understanding of the market in Africa is
a huge benefit that Wipro is prepared to tap into.
“South Africa’s IT end-user spending, as a portion of real gross domestic product
(GDP), will reach 8.6 percent in 2013. This positions the country at the
upper-middle level of IT spender nations within emerging markets. Factors like
the time zone advantage, language, cultural compatibility and skill access
makes South Africa a favorable destination for the growth of business process
outsourcing and IT services,” said Manoj Punja, senior vice president and Head – Focus Markets and Global Sales Operations, Wipro Technologies.
“To tap the large pool of IT educated graduates, Wipro plans to initiate campus
recruitment drives and establish training and skills development programs.
These recruits will then undergo a competency evaluation test and be deputed on
projects accordingly,” Punja added.
Wipro currently has an office in Johannesburg, South Africa and has around over
500 people onsite and offsite servicing its clients in the region. The company
sees this region as a high potential market for growth and will help diversify
its presence and portfolio, especially in the Financial and Telecommunications
sector.
By Telecomlead.com Team
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