Global software major Wipro has announced that it had won the Aegis Graham Bell award for developing a solution for the Internet of Things (IoT). The Aegis Graham Bell Award is the country’s innovation award in the field of Telecom, Internet, Media and Entertainment (TIME) and Social, Mobility Analytics and Cloud (SMAC). Minister of State Jitendra Singh presented the award to the outsourcing firm at a function in New Delhi recently.
Wipro
- Wipro Limited or Western India Products Limited is an Indian multinational IT Consulting and System Integration services company headquartered in Bangalore, India.
- On 31 March 2015, its market capitalization was approximately $ 35 Billion, making it one of India’s largest publicly traded companies and seventh largest IT Services firm in the World.
- Azim Hashim Premji (born 24 July 1945) is an Indian business tycoon, investor and philanthropist, who is the chairman of Wipro Limited, informally known as the Czar of the Indian IT Industry.
- In 2013 he gave away 25 per cent of his personal wealth to charity and has also pledged to give away the rest of 25% in the next 5 years.
- He has twice been listed among the 100 most influential people by TIME Magazine.
- Premji has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from Stanford University, USA.
- In 2015, University of Mysore conferred the honorary doctorate to Azim Premji.
