bags As retailers ramp up their store count in the country, they arehiring IT companies for quick and cost-effective rollouts.
This is offering huge opportunities for tech companies in thevertical that is currently growing faster than the industry averageof 20-22%.
A week after Infosys launched ShoppingTrip360, a platform thatenables retailers and consumer product manufacturers to getreal-time information on shoppers' buying behaviour, Wipro Infotechhas bagged a five-year IT outsourcing deal from Spencer's RetailLtd. Wipro Infotech offers services like integrated outsourcing,point solution, infrastructure management and managed services toits retail clients.
"Most of retailers are increasing number of stores and they arelooking for IT partners to transform and handle their growth," AnilJain, VP, corporate business, Wipro Infotech, said.
Wipro would be providing infrastructure management services toSpencer's, he said. The retailer's application management and datacentre operations is being handled by its in-house IT team.
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"Spencer's will be rolling out 600 stores in the next six months.Our services will help them in expediting the process and wouldalso translate into cost savings in the long run," Jain said.Spencer's CIO Amit Mukerjee said that over a period of time,implementation of IT solution would result in cost savings forthem.
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