WIPRO has maintained its leadership position for the second year in a row, owing to its consistent excellence across all key dimensions of the RadarView™ report. In its assessment, Avasant recognized Wipro’s exceptional quality of execution and reliable depth and breadth of services across verticals.
What Makes Wipro a Leader?
Practice Maturity: Wipro has built a strong suite of AI services focusing on themes such as industry 4.0, metaverse, 5G, edge computing, sustainability, and industry-specific AI solutions backed by a strong suite of solution accelerators focused on technologies such as generative AI, conversational AI, edge AI, computer vision, and intelligent document processing. Wipro has also created a dedicated CoE around generative AI for assisting clients across healthcare, banking, media, retail, and manufacturing industries with pilot projects around critical business use cases already initiated. To reduce biases and enable transparency in AI-related decision-making, it has built Holmes for Trustworthy AI, a model assessment framework.
Investments & Innovation: Wipro has been investing greatly in AI research and innovation. Its research team comprises over 300 AI practitioners and product managers, supporting over 60 AI-focused research initiatives. It continues to expand this resource pool by training employees through joint AI Ph.D. programs with universities. Through Wipro Ventures, it invests in new-age startups such as Incorta, Vectra, and Avaamo. For instance, in February 2023, through a seed funding round, it invested in Kognitos, a technology company that provides a generative AI-powered business automation platform. To expand its AI footprint in the retail industry, Wipro launched a suite of intelligent solutions named Retail Innovation Experience in December 2022.
Partner Ecosystem: To expand its portfolio of solutions around computer vision, edge AI, and generative AI, Wipro has collaborated with tech companies such as Microsoft, Google, IBM, Nvidia, Pix4D, and Precision Hawk. Wipro is also one of the first companies to partner with Microsoft to launch two generative AI-powered solutions on its marketplace, (i) Wipro Enterprise Generative AI, a conversational assistant, and (ii) Wipro Legacy Modernization solution. Additionally, to explore innovative AI use cases, it has built an academic partner ecosystem with over 22 universities, such as Tel Aviv University, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Texas. It is also jointly working with the University of South Carolina and IIT Patna to build healthcare-specific large language models for generating drug-related insights, with plans to expand this partnership to the legal sector.
In the evolving AI landscape, enterprises are looking to capitalize on emerging technologies, such as generative AI, deep learning, and edge AI, to address complex business problems, focusing on process optimization and innovation.
Wipro supports its clients’ AI journey with a strong suite of solutions focusing on themes such as generative AI, NLP, deep learning, and edge computing. To expand its solutions portfolio in generative AI, it has collaborated with technology and hardware companies; for instance, it has partnered with Microsoft to launch two generative AI solutions around legacy code conversion and human resource management on the Microsoft marketplace. Wipro augments these capabilities with its AI research team, which comprises over 300 AI practitioners and product managers and has filed over 288 patents in the AI and ML fields.
Wipro’s strong AI practice, backed by investments in IP, patents, and startups, and its services enabling hyperconvergence of AI with emerging technologies, such as metaverse, 5G, and edge computing, have positioned Wipro as a leader in Avasant’s Applied AI Services 2022–2023 RadarView.
