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  • Paytm partners with Wipro for its payments bank business

    Paytm partners with Wipro for its payments bank business

    MUMBAI:  Paytm has joined hands with Wipro  to create the requisite technology infrastructure for its upcoming Payments Bank business.

    Wipro will be implementing the core banking solution for Paytm and also programme managing the integration of other key systems like the anti-money laundering solution and the regulatory reporting solution. Wipro will play a crucial role in helping Paytm interface its existing systems with the core banking solution. It will also put in place and manage the data centers for the Payment Bank in order to ensure smooth functioning of the new unit.

    Speaking on the association, Paytm Payments Bank  CEO Designate Shinini Kumar said, “Technology is an integral part of the value proposition we seek to create for customers of our upcoming bank and we are happy to announce that we will be partnering with Wipro. They have a demonstrated track record in banking technology in India that will be important in ensuring that our innovative solutions are integrated with core banking systems in a compliant and secure manner, creating the right platform for service delivery at large scale. We are a young and agile organization and the Wipro team has demonstrated the agility and flexibility that will be necessary to make this partnership meaningful.”

     Wipro Limited India & Middle East Markets president Soumitro Ghosh also added, “Paytm is making steady strides towards its larger vision of financial inclusion in the country. Its Payments Bank is another step in this direction and we are happy to partner with them in their endeavor.”

  • Wipro & Verveba join hands to improve mobile radio network

    Wipro & Verveba join hands to improve mobile radio network

    NEW DELHI: Global IT service provider Wipro has entered into a partnership with telecom network engineering company Verveba Telecom to improve mobile radio network among other fields.

    The partnership brings together Wipro’s expertise in telecom sector and Verveba’s Mobile Radio Network Optimisation technology with services, intellectual property and solutions of both organisations.

    The companies will offer solutions to address industry challenges in generating measurable economic value from fast growing, mobile network technology deployments and optimisation especially in 4G and single RAN technologies.

    It will also provide the opportunity to combine the skills and talents of two great network services organisations. Verveba and Wipro will work together on business development activities and expanding solutions to the Telecom Service Providers globally.

    “Verveba’s solution augments our Telecom Network Services portfolio for the communications industry by delivering better business outcomes through cost reduction, improvement in turnaround time & process simplification, across the multi technology Radio Network Optimisation field. This aligns well with Wipro’s goal of offering comprehensive, cutting-edge customer experience solutions to our clients,” said Wipro senior vice president & global business head – communications business unit Anil Kumar. 

    “We are pleased and excited about this partnership with Wipro. This partnership increases the reach of Verveba’s services and solutions. Wipro’s reach in global markets complements Verveba’s capabilities to deliver incremental business value to the Communication Service Providers,” added Verveba CEO Manik Arora.

  • Wipro & Verveba join hands to improve mobile radio network

    Wipro & Verveba join hands to improve mobile radio network

    NEW DELHI: Global IT service provider Wipro has entered into a partnership with telecom network engineering company Verveba Telecom to improve mobile radio network among other fields.

    The partnership brings together Wipro’s expertise in telecom sector and Verveba’s Mobile Radio Network Optimisation technology with services, intellectual property and solutions of both organisations.

    The companies will offer solutions to address industry challenges in generating measurable economic value from fast growing, mobile network technology deployments and optimisation especially in 4G and single RAN technologies.

    It will also provide the opportunity to combine the skills and talents of two great network services organisations. Verveba and Wipro will work together on business development activities and expanding solutions to the Telecom Service Providers globally.

    “Verveba’s solution augments our Telecom Network Services portfolio for the communications industry by delivering better business outcomes through cost reduction, improvement in turnaround time & process simplification, across the multi technology Radio Network Optimisation field. This aligns well with Wipro’s goal of offering comprehensive, cutting-edge customer experience solutions to our clients,” said Wipro senior vice president & global business head – communications business unit Anil Kumar. 

    “We are pleased and excited about this partnership with Wipro. This partnership increases the reach of Verveba’s services and solutions. Wipro’s reach in global markets complements Verveba’s capabilities to deliver incremental business value to the Communication Service Providers,” added Verveba CEO Manik Arora.

  • Wipro names Abidali Neemuchwala as new CEO

    Wipro names Abidali Neemuchwala as new CEO

    NEW DELHI: Information technology services provider Wipro has appointed Abidali Z Neemuchwala as the new CEO.

     

    Prior to this, he was group president and chief operating officer of Wipro for the past nine months. At present, he is not on the board of Wipro.

     

    A Tata Consultancy Services veteran, Neemuchwala worked for 23 years in leadership roles.

     

    The Bangalore-based Wipro said current CEO TK Kurien will become the executive vice chairman and will be a member of Wipro board till March 2017.

     

    A spokesperson of Wipro told Indiantelevision.com that the aim was to ensure smooth transition of executive powers to the new CEO.

     

    Neemuchwala will handle the mandate to take Wipro through the next phase of growth.

     

    Wipro chairman Azim Premji said, “As executive vice chairman, Kurien will enable Abid by leveraging his deep relationships with customers and chart out a new technology roadmap for Wipro.”

     

    Premji said Neemuchwala has effortlessly assimilated into the culture and ethos of Wipro in his nine months as the group president and chief operating officer.

     

    Kurien will continue to report to Premji and will remain a member of the Wipro Board until 31 March, 2017.

     

    “I am convinced that we are well positioned to seize new opportunities in today’s marketplace. I look forward to working with the thousands of Wiproites to take our company to greater heights,” said Neemuchwala.

     

    Both Kurien and Neemuchwala will be on the Board of the company. Both these appointments are effective 1 February, 2016.

     

    Neemuchwala came to Wipro as the group president and COO from 1 April, 2015 from TCS, He has been handling the service lines of global infrastructure services, business application services, business process services, and advanced technology solutions. He will also head business operations; the geographies comprising Continental Europe, Africa, and LATAM; strategic engagements, advisor relationships as well as the marketing function.

     

    An Electronics & Communication engineer from NIT, Raipur, with a Masters in Industrial Management from IIT, Mumbai, Neemuchwala has experience in business and technology operations, process, and consulting.

  • Wipro bags five-year contract from T-Mobile Poland

    Wipro bags five-year contract from T-Mobile Poland

    MUMBAI: Wipro has bagged a five-year contract from T-Mobile Poland to provide integrated applications and infrastructure services.

     

    Wipro has committed to T-Mobile a significant improvement of its legacy applications consolidation and rationalization, transforming its operating model from application-focus to domain-focus leading to better customer service.

     

    Over the next five years, Wipro will help T-Mobile systemize and standardize the IT architecture and operations of their Polish entity. A significant portion of the services will be provided from Wipro’s Delivery Centre in Warsaw as a part of their development strategy for Poland.

     

    Wipro SVP and business head – global communications and media Anil Jain said, “We are delighted to have been chosen by T-Mobile in Poland. This is a large transformational deal and a significant win for us. We look forward to supporting T-Mobile enhance their business performance through increased operational efficiency.”

     

    T-Mobile Polska board member, chief technology and innovation Milan Zika added, “We are very pleased to have brought a business partner aboard that understands where we want to be as a company and has the expertise to help us achieve our goals.”

  • MEC India appoints Mukti Kumaran as west head

    MEC India appoints Mukti Kumaran as west head

    MUMBAI: MEC India has appointed Mukti Kumaran as its west head. Prior to joining MEC, she was heading the Mumbai branch at IPG Media Brands-BPN. Based out of Mumbai, Kumaran will report to MEC India managing director T Gangadhar.

     

    Gangadhar said, “We are delighted to have Mukti onboard our leadership team. She is a progressive communications professional and brings with her a wealth of experience. I have no doubt she will be a real asset to MEC.”

     

    Kumaran has been a media professional for over 18 years and brings with her a rich experience in strategic planning, buying and new business development. She has worked across markets and has experience on both sides – client and agency. She has earlier worked with Leo Burnett, Initiative Media (LMG), Lodestar and Wipro. 

     

    Kumaran added, “I believe the paradigm of media planning and buying is changing very rapidly. As consumers become platform agnostic and increasingly digital, the approach to engaging with them becomes that much more interesting and challenging. My focus will be to ensure that we are pushing our understanding of consumers and evolving smarter and newer ways to engage our brands with them. Looking forward to some exciting work here.”

     

  • SureWaves Media to expand its operations in south Asian countries

    SureWaves Media to expand its operations in south Asian countries

    KOLKATA:  SureWaves Media Tech, a Bengaluru based digital media-technology company, is looking beyond the Indian shores. The company is planning to expand its presence and operations in the south Asian countries.

    “We are extending the frontiers for growth. Since, we have covered the length and breadth of India, we are setting out to expand our scope and look for additional geographies. Nepal and Sri Lanka are on the radar now,” said SureWaves founder Rajendra Khare exclusively to Indiantelevision.com.

    According to Khare, there are advertisers in India that are looking at consumers in these countries.  And so, through a single gateway, SureWaves is now extending its scope and reach in order to enable the advertisers in these markets with the ease of technology. “We are also looking for additional strategic partners,” added Khare.

    The services will be fully functional in the next quarter. “Many product companies, auto sector, FMCG and e-commerce players have shown a strong interest,” he informed.
    Both Sri Lanka and Nepal markets are not yet digitised and so have a combination of terrestrial, cable and satellite channels. SureWaves is in the process of tying up with around 12-15 top media properties in Sri Lanka and another six to eight media channels in Nepal.

    “Bangladesh is also important for us,” he hinted.  As for Pakistan, Khare said that it would depend on the relationship between India and Pakistan.

    Currently, the company, through its internal team in the south Asian countries, is working on the initial research. “The geography and culture in the south Asian markets is not very different from that of India,” he said.

    SureWaves provides real-time data monitoring of ads, which for the first time, has made cable TV advertising accountable.

    The company, which has penetrated over 100 different markets across India by tying up with close to 250 local channels, plans to approach more satellite channels to extend its solution in the country.

    At present around 150 brands including HUL, Wipro, Dabur, Parle, Aircel, Vodafone, Nestle and Honda among others are using SureWaves services in India. Of these, a few have already shown interest to use the services in the neighbouring countries as well. “We are also targeting national advertisers who want to reach all the markets,” he concluded.

  • Sensex turns positive, rises 150 points

    Sensex turns positive, rises 150 points

    MUMBAI: Just as Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented Budget for the year 2014-15, stock markets showed positive signs. However, by the end of the day it had fallen lower than its opening value. At 3:34 pm the Sensex closed at 25,372.75, down 72.06 points and Nifty ended trading at 7,567.75, falling by 17.25 points. Among specific sector indices Midcap index was up 0.35 per cent, Realty index up 4.67 per cent and Bank Nifty down 1.25 per cent. The IT index was down by 0.96 per cent while infrastructure index  was up by 0.15 per cent.

     

    At 3:10 pm was when the Sensex turned negative and was down 81 points at 25,363. The  Nifty down 17.3 points at 7,568 but at 1:16 pm the Sensex was trading at 158 points higher at 25,603.61 and Nifty was up  by 45 points at 7,630.

     

    At 1:00 pm the realty index was up by 1.05 per cent but at 12:20pm, the 30-share benchmark BSE sensex was down 139.75 points, or 0.6 per cent at 25,305.06 points

     

    Sensex stocks like Wipro rose by 2.2 per cent while IT giant Infosys rose by 1.5 per cent.

     

    Stocks of Sesa Sterlite fell by 2.5 per cent along with Bharti Airtel whose stocks were down by 2.4 per cent. The stock exchange’s power and banking indices were down by 1.5 per cent each.

     

    Shares of defence companies and financial services companies, with interests in insurance, rose after Jaitley raised the cap for foreign direct investment (FDI) in these two sectors by up to 49 per cent.

     

    Financial services firms Reliance Capital and Bajaj Finserv were up by 1.9 per cent each, while Max India rose by 2.7 per cent.

     

    “Difficult as it may appear, I have decided to accept this target as a challenge,” Jaitley said, adding that the fiscal deficit would be brought down to 3 per cent of GDP by 2017. “We cannot leave behind a legacy of debt for our future generations.”

     

  • ASCI upheld complaints against 68 out of 108 ads

    ASCI upheld complaints against 68 out of 108 ads

    MUMBAI: In March 2014, Advertising Standards Council of India’s (ASCI) Consumer Complaints Council (CCC) upheld complaints against 68 out of 108 advertisements. Advertisements in personal and healthcare sector category again emerged as the category which accounted for a majority of advertisements against which complaints were upheld.

     

    The CCC found the claims in health and personal care product or service ads of 44 advertisers, released in the press to be either misleading or false or not adequately / scientifically substantiated and hence violating ASCI’s code. Some of the health care products or services ads also contravened provisions of the Drug & Magic Remedies Act. Complaints against the ads like Hindustan Unilever’s Vaseline Healthy White Lotion showing exaggerated claims of ‘instant whitening’ on skin, Zydus Wellness claims that Everyuth Fairness Peel off to be India’s first intelligent delivering whitening technology that targets melanocytes to give unmatched fairness were upheld.

     

    Other complaints included Wipro (Glucovita Bolts) claims that Glucovita has iron and glucose which gives energy to the body and brain in 10 seconds. Hamdard Laboratories India product claims to be a herbal vitalizer for men.

     

    As for the education category, the CCC found claims in print ads by 14 different advertisers that were not substantiated and thus, violated ASCI guidelines for advertising of educational institutions and hence the complaints against these ads were upheld.

     

    For instance, DAV Institute of Engineering & Technology claims that it has ‘100 per cent placement track record of eligible students with highest offered pay package of Rs 5.65 lakh per annum, fourth top engineering college in Punjab as per CSR-GHRDC survey, 34th rank amongst private colleges of the country as rated by electronics for You magazine, 39th rank in top engineering colleges of excellence in India as per CSR-GHRDC survey and 66th rank in top engineering college of India as per Data Quest magazine.   

     

    In the food & beverage category, Cadbury India’s 5 star advertisement shows ‘a lady giving birth to a baby who is laughing. The voiceover says that the babies used to be laughing while being born in earlier days and later they started crying at childbirth due to a disease called seriousness. So eat 5 star to become jovial again.’ The CCC concluded that the frames in the TVC showing the process of child birth are gross and offensive.  The advertisement contravened Chapter II of the Code.  The complaint was upheld. The advertisement had received 21 such complaints against it.

     

    Other advertisements and claims which were upheld included the likes of CNBC TV18. The advertisement claims that, ‘CNBC-TV18 was the only channel India watched, during FM’s speech’ by relying on TAM rating of the day part 11:10 am until 12:06 pm. This claim of Network18 for its channel is completely misleading, factually incorrect, unsubstantiated and even disparaging to the other news and non-news channels including Network18’s competitor channels and ET Now. Network18 stated that according to TAM data, with the criteria- CS AB Males 25+, All India of 17 February 2014, the market share during the day part 11:10 am to 12:06 pm (‘Day Part’) was 100 per cent.  When calculating the TAM rating for the day part, we observed that Network18 had a share of 86 per cent which is in complete contradiction to what Network18 claimed in the Advertisement-1 and, ET Now had a share of 14 per cent, during the said day part, which clearly proves that Network18 was not the only channel that India watched during the FM’s speech as claimed by them.  TVTs garnered by ET Now during the aforementioned day part were 0.290, as against Network18 which garnered 1.680 TVTs.  Thus, it is very clear that ET Now also had viewership during that day part, which Network18 falsely and with mala-fide intention reduced to 0 per cent in the said Advertisement-1. Claim ‘as being the only channel watched’ is misleading to the viewers as there are 242 channels which had some amount of viewership ranging from 2,000 to 510,000 viewers in the Males 25+ SEC AB TG, out of which, 110 channels in that Day Part  had a higher reach than the Channel of Network18.  In the absence of comments from the Advertiser, the CCC concluded that the claim, ‘CNBC-TV18 was the only channel India watched, during FM’s speech’, was not substantiated and was considered to be misleading. The advertisement contravened Chapters I.1 and I.4 of the ASCI Code.  The complaint was upheld.  

     

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  • Den Networks and Wipro join hands for enhancing customer experience

    Den Networks and Wipro join hands for enhancing customer experience

    MUMBAI: Multi system operator (MSO) Den Networks is not only expanding its business, but with that is looking at enhancing customer experience as well. And with this, the MSO has entered into a strategic partnership with information technology giant Wipro. The alliance aims at accelerating Den Networks’ evolution from being a B2B organisation to a B2C one.       

     

    The strategic partnership will empower Den Networks’ customers with seamless connectivity and integration. Through this decade-long alliance, the MSO will be able to provide its customers, local cable operators (LCOs) and partners with real time efficient services, thereby ensuring continuous engagement and zero downtime. The initiative will also help Den Networks to streamline the deployment of its next generation services and provide quicker service activation, accurate rating and billing and excellent customer service.

     

     “As the industry continuously evolves, it is imperative to drive innovations for an enhanced customer experience. This initiative will help us connect better with our customers, and meet operators’ demand for quicker and accurate dissemination of a variety of services, thereby driving increased loyalty, adoption and efficiency. We are looking at automating our backend processes as a part of this deal, to provide a seamless subscriber experience and build customer loyalty,” said Den Networks COO M.G. Azhar.

     

    According to the agreement, Den Networks can offer SMS and BSS user friendly solutions, which allows cable operators to deliver more personalised and sophisticated services to cable and broadband subscribers at sharply improved delivery time.

     

    “We are delighted to be chosen as a strategic partner for Den. Wipro will leverage its extensive experience in business and technology transformation, combined with platform-driven integrated delivery of IT to ensure we deliver a robust, flexible and scalable infrastructure to help Den do business better,” added Wipro Infotech chief executive Soumitro Ghosh.

     

     

    The cloud based platform will use a highly extendible patented model that consolidates all subscriber, product, service and infrastructure based operational data, allowing operators to reliably and rapidly create and manage a wider range of residential and business products that deliver increased operational efficiency and a greater user experience.

     

    “This partnership will enable both the companies to meet the changing needs of the customer, providing them with more choices and market solutions, using a blend of onboard and cloud-based distributed analytics. Our user-centric architecture and expertise in the broadband & cable space will help DEN Networks engage with customers at a deeper level,” concluded Wipro senior vice president and business head-global communications Anil K. Jain.