Signs a Five-Year Agreement to Transform Its IT Infrastructure and
Applications
Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited
(NYSE:WIT), today announced that it has entered into a five-year
agreement to provide IT data center and applications management services
for BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc., a leading membership warehouse club
headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts.
Under this agreement, Wipro will migrate BJ’s Wholesale Club (BJ’s)
mainframe and open systems environment to its state-of-the-art data
center in Omaha, Nebraska, thereby enabling BJ’s to streamline their
infrastructure solutions, provide operational flexibility and improve
applications support while more efficiently managing the long-term IT
spend.
Through this five-year engagement, BJ’s will also benefit from Wipro’s
extensive expertise in providing applications management and support,
disaster recovery, enterprise security and compliance services.
“BJ’s is in the business of providing our members value on brand-name
groceries, consumer electronics, apparel, household items and seasonal
products, and we do that by being as efficient as possible,” said John
A. Polizzi, Senior Vice President and CIO of BJ’s Wholesale Club. “Our
agreement with Wipro will help ensure that we can continue to meet our
members’ desire for value without sacrificing quality while adapting to
changes as we grow.”
Bhanu Murthy B M, Senior Vice President, Retail, CPG, Transportation, &
Government, Wipro Technologies said, “We will draw on our extensive
experience in transforming retail enterprises across the globe to
deliver value to BJ’s. We are excited to partner with BJ’s, a highly
successful retailer in their transformation journey.”
“Wipro is committed to its strategic relationship with BJ’s and will
leverage our global infrastructure management experience, data centers
in North America, global command centers and IT best practices to
provide superior service and best value for the investment,” stated
Sameer Kishore, President and COO for Wipro’s Data Center business unit.
About Wipro
Wipro Technologies, a division of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) is the first
PCMM Level 5 and SEI CMM Level 5 certified global IT services
organization. Wipro Technologies was recently assessed at Level 5 for
CMMI V 1.2 across offshore and onsite development centers. Wipro is one
of the largest product engineering and support service providers
worldwide.
