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The deal, one of the biggest under the new CEO
Metro Systems Romania alone has about 800 employees, according to Profit.ro. As a result of the deal, Metro’s Romanian employees will transfer to Wipro, “gaining new opportunities to advance their careers, access innovation, work with leading digital technologies and adopt new ways of working that enable agility, speed and scale in engineering,” the company said.
Meanwhile, within Metro Digital, Metro AG’s new IT unit, certain digital wholesale solutions, such as the M|Companion customer app, will be developed.
“We are at a stage where we want to focus on the activities that are going to give us the strongest possible competitive advantage and to do that, we need to be confident in the digital infrastructure that underpins our growth. Partnering with Wipro allows us to simplify and streamline out IT landscape,” said
The estimated deal value for the duration of the first five years is approximately
Under the arrangement, Wipro will deliver a complete technology, engineering and solutions transformation programme for Metro. The programme will encompass “cloud, data centre services, workplace and network services, along with application development and operations to provide an integrated, flexible and robust digital infrastructure to help drive Metro’s transformation agenda,” according to the statement. Wipro also plans to set up a digital innovation hub in
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