Wipro Technologies said that it will offer ‘w-SaaS’, a platform for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) enablement of business applications using Oracle Grid Computing and Oracle application grid middleware for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs).
The platform is expected to help ISVs enable their existing business applications to operate in SaaS model in a non-intrusive manner with minimal re-implementation, and also enable the traditional single tenant application to operate in a multi-tenant mode. This is expected to result in savings of up to 50% of effort for SaaS enablement of existing applications, resulting in up to 10-20% savings in the total cost of ownership, the company claims.
Using Oracle to power the w-SaaS platform, together the companies can provide a cost-effective SaaS enablement alternative to the ISVs to move to the SaaS delivery model, Wipro said.
Wipro expects opportunities for this offering in North America, with growth potentials in the emerging markets of Latin America, Asia Pacific and Western Europe. Wipro said that it will focus on Energy and utilities, retail, transportation, healthcare and manufacturing sectors.
According to research firm Gartner: the market for worldwide software as a service (SaaS) is forecast to reach $8 billion in 2009, a 21.9 % increase from 2008 revenue of $6.6 billion.
John Gawkowski, vice president of platform technology solutions at Oracle, said: The w-SaaS platform, which leverages Oracle application grid products, will help our joint ISV customer base in their adoption of SaaS. Oracle’s strategy of delivering high value through complete and integrated products fits well with the Wipro methodology, resulting in a proven and optimal solution with speed, quality and value to the customer.
