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Wipro betting big on green technologies
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Thursday, 23 July 2009, 19:38 IST |
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Bangalore: Betting big on green technologies, Wipro, a software major is looking to make green technologies a sizeable business in the next 10-15 years. Azim Premji, Wipro's Chairman said, "We see it as a next emerging opportunity and are positioning ourselves very strongly."
Witnessing a substantial growth in the last 20 years, the IT sector constitutes about 27 percent of the country's exports and about 4-5 percent of its GDP. The Chairman opined that the green technologies also have a similar future and a huge business potential.
Wipro has already developed integrated solutions which can help reduce carbon footprints and energy needs for multiple industry verticals. "Wipro's eCO-NET," a solution for telecom industry which uses a combination of its network energy diagnostics tools and end-to-end network energy operations management framework.
Officials from Wipro said that the green technologies sector is projected to grow in the next 5-10 years.