BANGALORE, May 21, 2007 - Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT), today announced the successful delivery of system integration services to the Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative (SMECO) for their Oracle | SPL Customer Care and Billing (CC&B) System initiative. The Oracle | SPL CC&B was successfully deployed into production at SMECO on time and under budget. Wipro was SMECO's prime service provider for system integration services.

Wipro, leveraging its global delivery model, provided a full range of system integration services on time and under budget. Wipro provided the integration strategy and approach, as well as the system integration and implementation services during each phase of the project. Wipro’s services included requirements definition, analysis and design, prototyping, build, test, acceptance and production deployment. Wipro utilized the latest SOA and EAI technologies from the webMethods product suite to develop a best in class integration solution.

Joe Trentacosta, VP and CIO, SMECO, said “By implementing the new Oracle | SPL CC&B system utilizing the webMethods product suite, SMECO has established a strong foundation for improving operational efficiency, achieving seamless interaction with our partners and suppliers, increasing customer satisfaction, reducing effort and complexity of future integrations, and setting industry best practices. Wipro’s experience and technological leadership were instrumental in reaching these significant achievements. Wipro delivered on its promise to provide a highly skilled interface development team. The ability of the Wipro team to effectively blend an understanding of our business systems with strong technical design skills was a key ingredient for this initiative’s success.”

Trentacosta added, “The 40-plus interfaces that Wipro delivered were primarily developed using a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). This approach positioned us for a very smooth transition to our internal IT support and development team. The professional management and orchestration of the global delivery model provided transparent, seamless, and accelerated interface development.”

Tamal Dasgupta, Senior Vice President and Global Head, Energy & Utilities Business, stated "The SMECO Customer Information System project clearly reinforces and further demonstrates our expert capabilities and leadership in the CIS and EAI areas. Our Oracle|SPL and webMethods competencies helped deliver this project on time and under budget. We value our long term SMECO relationship and look forward to leveraging this highly successful engagement throughout the E&U marketplace.”

About Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative
Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative, Inc. (SMECO) is a customer-owned electric cooperative serving more than 142,000 customers in four Southern Maryland counties. The co-op has provided power to residential, commercial, and industrial customers for 70 years. Today SMECO is one of the 10 largest electric co-ops in the nation. It remains a cooperative corporation, owned by its customer-members and operated for them on a non-profit basis.

SMECO mission statement: A cooperative owned by its members, dedicated to providing reliable, competitively priced energy and related services, committed to its community and to enhancing the quality of life in Southern Maryland. For more information, please visit our website at www.smeco.coop.

About Wipro
Wipro Technologies, a division of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) is the first PCMM Level 5 and SEI CMM Level 5 certified IT Services organization globally. Wipro Technologies was recently assessed at Level 5 for CMMI V 1.2 across offshore and onsite development centers. Wipro is one of the largest product engineering and support service providers worldwide. Wipro provides comprehensive research and development services, IT solutions and services, including systems integration, Information Systems outsourcing, package implementation, software application development and maintenance services to corporations globally.

In the Indian market, Wipro is a leader in providing IT solutions and services for the corporate segment offering system integration, network integration, software solutions and IT services. Wipro also has a profitable presence in niche market segments of consumer products and lighting. In the Asia Pacific and Middle East markets, Wipro provides IT solutions and services for global corporations. Wipro's ADS’ are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and its equity shares are listed in India on the Stock Exchange - Mumbai, and the National Stock Exchange. For more information, please visit our websites at www.wiprocorporate.com

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