Wipro announces seven-year partnership with RSA

Leading international insurer, RSA, on Thursday announced a new seven-year partnership with IT major Wipro Ltd to deliver its IT infrastructure requirements across the UK, Ireland and Scandinavia.

Wipro will be providing infrastructure as a service for mainframe, mid-range, storage, cloud and end user services in addition to a multilingual service desk for RSA employees in all the regions, the company said.

This will enable pan-European standardisation, improved end-to-end responsibility and a platform for business-led collaboration, Wipro said in a release here. The agreement follows a 10-month sourcing programme, which included 20 bidders, and reflects RSA s aim to drive benefits through consolidation of services across its regional businesses, it said.

Darren Price, Group CIO, RSA, said the partnership is a major step forward in their Group technology strategy enabling it to provide a market-leading, agile, affordable and secure infrastructure platform. "We see this as a key enabler for RSA to achieve the desired business outcomes from their IT investments," Shaji Farooq, President and Chief Executive, BFSI, Wipro said.