IT services provider Wipro Technologies has opened its global delivery centre at Chengdu, China to provide IT and BPO services to its customers.
The company claims that the new centre will have secured facilities, labs and infrastructure for customer projects and can grow to provide a capacity of 1000 seats.
According to Wipro, the new centre will broaden its service capabilities along with its existing presence in Shanghai. It will extend the company’s portfolio of IT services to its customer with an initial focus in the first year on testing and enterprise application services for the manufacturing, banking, financial services & insurance (BFSI) industries.
The company said that the centre will provide multilingual services in English, Chinese and Japanese. It currently employs over 100 people and plans on increasing headcount.
Ge Honglin, mayor of chengdu city, said: “Chengdu is a great outsourcing destination and we are happy that Wipro is inaugurating its centre here today.”
Sambuddha Deb, executive vice president and chief delivery officer of Wipro Technologies, said: “This facility in Chengdu is one of the global strategic centres that we are creating around the world. Our employees here would be trained in Wipro’s quality processes, technologies and the high global delivery standards that Wipro is renowned for.”
