Wipro and Tableau strike a collaboration to offer solution accelerators and innovative delivery models for their customers across the globe.
Staying true to the essence of IT, Wipro has come into a strategic partnership with business analytics software developer Tableau in order to improve their worldwide services. According to the press release, the partnership aims at cross leveraging business intelligence expertise between Wipro and Tableau to deliver holistic, future proof and ready-to-go advanced visualization solutions to their customers across the globe.
The overall BI and analytics market segment continues to expand and is expected to sustain its 2014 growth rate of 5.8% (adjusted for constant currency) through 2019, which is also reflected in Gartner’s current estimate of the compound annual growth rate for the sector.
With this partnership, Wipro will focus on creating solutions primarily in the sectors of financial services, retail, consumer packaged goods (CPG) and pharmaceuticals. Innovative cloud-based delivery and business models such as subscription based pricing that will be enabled with this collaboration will widen the spectrum of the offering in terms of both scale and scope.
As a step to strengthen corporate ties between the ICT companies, Wipro organized Tableau Innovation Day at its Bangalore campus. In collaboration with Tableau, Wipro has set up a dedicated Tableau Academy to up skill and cross-skill their resource base to adopt cutting-edge technologies faster.
On the strategic partnership, Pallab Deb, VP & Global Head – Analytics, Wipro said, “We have seen significant traction from the market for the robust visualization platform offered by Tableau. With this global alliance we aim to integrate Tableau in our solutions to help clients unlock the power of big data.”
From Tableau, Michael Hoff, VP, Americas Channel commented, “Wipro’s globally recognized innovative approach delivering business value coupled with Tableau’s disruptive software will allow us to help organizations empower their workforce to see and understand their data and quickly adapt to ever changing market needs”