Why Yokohama?

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Wipro Limited Japan
Tapping the talent of highly
skilled IT engineers from India,
we have operated ourbusiness with the onsiteoffshore model for over 20years. We seek to stay aheadof the times and provide new
IT solutions.

About half of our employees are IT engineers from India.
The Yokohama Landmark Tower has been our home since 2003
Wipro Japan is a Japanese subsidiary that was established with the objective ofeffectively utilizing the talent of IT engineers from India that have advancedskills. Our typical business style is to grasp the customer’s needs where thecustomer is located (=onsite) regarding IT consulting, system integration, oroutsourcing solutions, and take the systems with specifications that have been
designed in Japan, for example, and develop them offshore (=India). The parent
company Wipro Limited, whose corporate office is located in India, has over
160,000 engineers and is involved in business with over 1,270 client companies
in 66 countries around the world (Takatani). In Wipro Japan, there are currently
about 250 employees, about half of whom are from India. The number ofpersonnel from Wipro Limited that are available for our projects totals around2,000. For each project, we create a virtual team comprised of qualified
engineers from around the world to engage in the work. (Aoki) Wipro Japan wasestablished in 1998. It started from a small office in Oimachi, Tokyo. This was
before the current onsite/offshore model became our modus operandi. We
moved to Yokohama in 2003 and have since maintained our office in theYokohama Landmark Tower. (Takatani)

School is a serious issue for Indians accompanied by theirfamilies. Yokohama is favorable in terms of living and work
environment

Naohide Takatani, Country Head, Japan (Left)
Kenji Aoki, Country Sales Head, Japan - Consumer, HLS(Right)
Madu Vanka, Practice Manager ,Product Engineering
Services (Center)

The main reason we moved to Yokohama is because many of our employees arefrom a foreign country. Yokohama is home to many foreign companies, and theliving environment is favorable for foreigners, which was the deciding
factor. Many Indians move to Japan with their families. This raises the issue ofeducation for their children. There are a variety of international schools inYokohama, including the India International School in Japan, which is reassuring.
(Takatani) Also providing a sense of security is the fact that there are many
hospitals with services available in English if anything should go wrong. We also
have easy access to central Tokyo. (Aoki) Among employees who moved fromIndia, some have stayed in Japan for 15 to 20 years, and some have become
permanent residents. Perhaps their good impression of Yokohama contributes totheir long stay. (Takatani) Last November, I was invited to speak at “Yokohama
Networking Session for Foreign Companies: Creating business opportunities
through IoT,” which was a networking event attended by people from many
sectors involved in IoT, hosted by the Yokohama World Business Support Center.
I feel it is meaningful to network with people working in companies here in
Yokohama to seek new business opportunities. (Aoki) In recent years, Wipro
has acquired Appirio, which is one of major companies providing cloud services,and Designit, which is a design & innovation consulting company. Currently ourfocus areas include cloud computing solutions and design thinking. Goingforward, we would like to constantly look towards the most advanced needs ofthe times and capitalize on our advantages of being able to utilize excellent
offshore talent, to step up our presence in Japan. (Takatani)
Interviewed by Yokohama World Business Support Center, 4/1/2018