Wipro Positioned as a "Challenger” by Leading Industry Analyst Firm

Wipro Technologies, the global IT services division of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) announced that leading industry analyst firm Gartner, Inc. positioned Wipro Technologies in a ‘challengers’ Quadrant of its "Magic Quadrant for SAP Outsourcing, North America”¹ report. This Magic Quadrant analyzes 20 providers of SAP application outsourcing services providers in the North American market.

"We believe this positioning of Wipro highlights our commitment to driving business value to our clients. Wipro has been at the forefront of innovation and have made significant investments in automation of application outsourcing thus driving predictable, scalable and cost effective solutions to our clients,” said Arnab Chaudhury, Global Head Application Management Services, Wipro Technologies. "We believe this is validated by the success of our FlexDelivery model.”

Wipro’s innovative FlexDelivery model to manage enterprise application landscape has been deployed by more than 40 customers as on date to handle complexity and criticality of environment and business processes, variability in work volume typical in application maintenance and support engagements. The delivery is rendered from globally located FlexDelivery centers using standardized platform of tools and processes with teams aligned by competency. FlexDelivery has led to 10-15% improvement in service level and end-user experience.

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted November 2009 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Wipro

Wipro Technologies, a division of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) is the first PCMM Level 5 and SEI CMM Level 5 certified global IT services organization. Wipro Technologies was recently assessed at Level 5 for CMMI V 1.2 across offshore and onsite development centers. Wipro is one of the largest product engineering and support service providers worldwide. Wipro provides comprehensive research and development services, IT solutions and services, including systems integration, information systems outsourcing, package implementation, software application management, and datacenter managed services to corporations globally. In the Indian market, Wipro is a leader in providing IT solutions and services for the corporate segment in India, offering system integration, network integration, software solutions and IT services.

Wipro also has a profitable presence in niche market segments of consumer products and lighting. In the Asia-Pacific and Middle East markets, Wipro provides IT solutions and services for global corporations. Wipro's ADS' are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and its equity shares are listed in India on the Stock Exchange - Mumbai, and the National Stock Exchange.

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Forward-looking and Cautionary Statements

Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in our earnings, revenue and profits, our ability to generate and manage growth, intense competition in IT services, our ability to maintain our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks, our ability to successfully complete and integrate potential acquisitions, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies in which we make strategic investments, withdrawal of fiscal governmental incentives, political instability, war, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, unauthorized use of our intellectual property, and general economic conditions affecting our business and industry. Additional risks that could affect our future operating results are more fully described in our filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. These filings are available at www.sec.gov. We may, from time to time, make additional written and oral forward-looking statements, including statements contained in the company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and our reports to shareholders. We do not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by us or on our behalf.

¹ Gartner, Inc., "Magic Quadrant for SAP Outsourcing, North America” by Ben Pring, 10 November 2009