Mumbai: Wipro Technologies (www.wipro.com) has received Information Today’s KMWorld-KM Reality Award, validating Wipro’s leadership in knowledge management.

This award recognises Wipro’s efforts in building and maintaining a successful corporate-wide knowledge management programme. The award was presented at a recent ceremony, KMWorld and Intranets 2002, in Santa Clara.

KMWorld is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference and exposition dedicated to content, work, collaboration, knowledge and intellectual asset management, and business / competitive intelligence.

KM Reality honours organisations that demonstrate leadership in the implementation of knowledge management practices and processes by realising measurable benefits. The programme has to be in place for a minimum of two years, demonstrate senior management support and have defined metrics in place to evaluate the programme and its impact on organisational goals.

Praising Wipro’s knowledge management initiative, KM World’s executive editor Hugh McKellar said: “In many organisations, knowledge management is just rhetoric. The KM Reality award recognises an organisation in which knowledge management is a positive reality.”

“Wipro as the recipient of this year’s KM Reality award is an organisation demonstrating leadership in the implementation of knowledge management practices and processes by realising measurable business benefits. Wipro as the winner of the KM Reality award consistently delivered on the expectation of knowledge management,” he added.

As part of its approach to knowledge management, Wipro has successfully used its inherent strengths in people and processes to evolve an IT-enabled framework cutting across the boundaries of culture, content, communities and business processes. All of Wipro’s initiatives like Six Sigma, PCMM and CMMi feed into the central knowledge management repository on a continuous basis.

“Having a unified framework has helped build a cohesive knowledge base across the company accessible to the entire user community in Wipro. Winning this award is a validation of our approach to collaboration and knowledge management at Wipro,” says Wipro Technologies chief quality officer Sambuddha Deb.

Wipro has started offering its collaboration and knowledge management solutions and expertise to global corporate enterprises by providing end-to-end collaboration and knowledge management services, including KM application development for knowledge portals, expertise management systems, knowledge repositories and executive dashboards through a unique blend of domain knowledge, technology expertise and process excellence.