By IANS
Bangalore : Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Ltd, Thursday opened a business process outsourcing centre in Cebu in the Philippines as part of its strategy to build global delivery capabilities.
Wipro plans to hire over 900 employees for its 45,000-sq ft Cebu facility, the company said in a statement.
Wipro is also looking at establishing additional centres in other fast-growing cities in the Philippines.
“The Philippines is one of the largest English speaking nations with a strong IT orientation and a talent pool of 29 million. This is one location that we definitely want to expand our presence in,” T.K. Kurien, president, Wipro BPO, said.
“Our business objective is to enable delivery of multi-lingual services to our global customer base. The Philippines is a major milestone in this journey,” said Sanjeev Bhatia, vice-president, international operations, Wipro BPO.
Wipro BPO employs around 20,000 people at its BPO centres across the globe. In 2007, Wipro set up centres in Romania and China.