Leading organisations around the globe are finding that many of their underlying IT and business processes do not align with their strategic requirements. This diverts focus from their core competencies. By modernising these processes and the related enterprise applications, organisations gain flexibility and efficiency, resulting in a more agile enterprise.

"We are pleased that Wipro, a company known for its innovation and adherence to high quality client solutions has chosen to standardise on the Modernization Workbench," said Steve Maysonave, chairman, president, and CEO of Relativity Technologies. "Relativity Technologies is equally committed to providing the most technically sophisticated, business-focused modernization platform on the market."

Highlights of the agreement:
Integration into modernisation service offering: Wipro selected the Modernisation Workbench in part because of the platform''s unique ability to accelerate all stages of the modernisation lifecycle. Wipro will deploy the platform to speed business rule and process modeling, SOA analysis, and application re-architecting, among other high-value modernization initiatives. Wipro will showcase and build these solutions into customer proposals.

Certification of professionals: As part of this agreement, Wipro will validate its modernisation experts as Relativity Technologies Certified Professionals. This allows Wipro to demonstrate its excellence in the use of the industry''s leading Enterprise Application Modernizstion solution.

Joint go-to-market: To address the increasing demand for modernization solutions, Relativity Technologies and Wipro will coordinate go-to-market strategies planning. This coordination will allow clients to benefit from the heightened automation of the Modernization Workbench and the proven skills and processes of Wipro.

"Wipro has made a strategic commitment to the Modernisation Workbench because of its ability to accelerate the entire gamut of modernization activities," said K R Sanjiv, VP of e-enabling, Wipro Technologies. "We plan to expand our investment in Relativity Technologies'' platform not only through the development of professionals and processes built around the technology. We also will employ our R&D resources to generate value-add modernization solutions that leverage the foundation of the Modernization Workbench platform."