• Extend the product design and development phase to service partners
• Collaborate to capture the best practices in design and development on both sides
• Leverage the key development strengths of the partners to get the product faster to the market
• Leverage the global model to provide product sustenance and generate derivative products, thus extending the lifecycle of the product
• Provide cost effective remote technical product support while retaining customer experience

Wipro Technologies has been working with leading technology companies across their product life cycle value chain of design, development, sustenance and support for the last 20 years and is a leader in this area.

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PES Highlights
The financial year 2005-06 has seen Wipro Technologies’ Product Engineering Solutions (PES) group reinforce its position as the world’s largest independent R&D service provider with annual revenues crossing half a billion dollars. The group has seen a 5.6% sequential growth in sales on quarter-on-quarter basis and 30%+ year-on-year growth rate.

The PES group is 13,500+ engineers strong, and provides engineering services to companies across domains like Telecom, Computing Systems, Storage, Semiconductor, Automotive Electronics, Consumer Electronics, Industrial Automation, Avionics, Software Products and Medical Devices.

There has been good growth across all the business units, notable amongst these were the software products, broadband networks, semiconductor, consumer electronics and embedded systems business units with good wins. Japan continued the momentum with double digit quarter growth.

The group acquired Austria based Semiconductor IP Company, NewLogic, making Wipro-NewLogic the world leader in Semiconductor IP cores for WLAN, Bluetooth and IEEE 1394. The team was able to register some good wins with Japanese customers in selling their IPs in Bluetooth and 1394. There is a good synergy between the teams and we foresee a good penetration of the IPs in the USA, Japan, Asia and Europe markets going forward.

There were 30 offshore development centers operational in 2005-06 for PES specific clients, which had 550 projects running across the business unit at any given point of the year. The group was also successful in registering 58 invention disclosures with clients. (These invention disclosures are used by clients for filing of patents.)

The group has had a good run in getting new accounts, a total of 66 this financial year. The group on a whole serviced more than 200 customers worldwide. More than 10 of the new customers were FT Global 500 companies. We have also increased engagements with customers over our service lines and have been successful in increasing cross-sell.

Other Key Highlights

• 85+ Lean projects have been implemented for clients with average revenue saving of 11% on top line
• Opened an offshore development center for a leading security software products company
• Consolidation and success in continued growth across multiple service lines in large accounts
• The world’s largest hardware design team comprising of 1,400+ engineers. The team delivered the following key projects:
• 125 ASIC / SOC design starts including one 65nm and eight 90nm designs
• 79 board / system designs