Wipro recently announced that it has signed an agreement to enter into a strategic partnership and take a minority position in Opera Solutions, a leading global big data science company. The company will invest US $30 Million in the company, which is privately held and headquartered in New Jersey, U.S.
Opera Solutions has large groups of scientists specializing in machine learning. The company applies its machine learning science to the world’s big data flows to extract predictive patterns, or signals.
It offers a range of solutions, delivered as a service, that turn these signals into prescriptive “best actions” that significantly improve front-line productivity and bottom-line growth. Its solutions include its Consumer Signal Hub and related Signal Apps for marketers and SignalSensor, which extracts threat and other sentiment from the world’s flow of open source online data, as well as other solutions for financial services, capital markets, procurement professionals, and the healthcare industry.
“This strategic partnership with Opera Solutions will help us further extend our leadership in the big data analytics space, as it combines Opera Solutions’ machine learning expertise, pre-discovered predictive signals and algorithms with Wipro’s proven domain and technology expertise combined with Global Delivery Model to create industry-specific Big Data analytics solutions. It also enables our customers to maximize the ROI of big data analytics implementation through faster adoption,” said K.R Sanjiv, Senior Vice President and Global Head, Analytics and Information Management, Wipro.
Arnab Gupta, Chief Executive Officer of Opera Solutions said, “We are delighted to be entering into a strategic partnership with Wipro, which is the partner of choice for global businesses seeking to leverage information as a strategic asset to improve business outcomes and win in the marketplace. Both Wipro and we see a great fit between Wipro’s ability to deliver end-to-end services and Opera Solutions’ ability to scale and industrialize big data science. And by partnering with a global organization with a broad, blue-chip client roster, we greatly enhance our ability to capitalize on the exploding demand for big data science solutions.”