When I saw the headline Wipro ties up with Oracle to build industry specific solutions, I was optimistic that it will co-development of intellectual property and a step towards building products. However, I was disappointed when I read the release - it said - "The industry specific solutions (communication, retail, consumer products, hi-tech and industrial manufacturing) developed are designed to leverage Oracle platforms and provide faster time to market at lower cost of ownership for our clients."
Wipro building solutions on Oracle platform does not help it create products. I was hoping that Oracle with co-invest along with Wipro and jointly take the solutions to market. The agreement does not envisage the strategic role that I initially thought it did.
That said, I firmly believe that Service Oriented Architecture provides an one-time window of opportunity for IT service companies to move into the product space. This market discontinuity will last for at least 5 years. With all product companies developing SOA products, they will certainly need large number of partners who can customize, implement and re-use some of the solutions. However, the biggest opportunity lies in gradually creating and expanding suite of SOA based product offerings. It is time that Wipro, TCS and Infosys stepped up their efforts to build products and not become just a implementation partner of Oracle, IBM, SAP or Microsoft
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