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India.com
28-04-2025
- Business
- India.com
How N. T. Rao Chillapalli's Enterprise-Ready IT Transformation is Sculpting Next Generation Leaders in Cloud and Integration
How N. T. Rao Chillapalli's Enterprise-Ready IT Transformation is Sculpting Next Generation Leaders in Cloud and Integration Rao's extensive career has placed him squarely at the front of enterprise technology evolution. By Abhijeet Sen Edited by Abhijeet Sen Advertisement In hyper-connected times of the digital economy, enterprises can no longer afford islands of fragmented systems, disjointed data, and legacy infrastructure. The costs are not merely in operational inefficiency; they are in sliding innovation, missing markets, and postponing futures. It is this problem that Naga Tirumala Rao Chillapalli, Senior IEEE Member, award-winning author, expert in cloud and enterprise application integration, finds himself tackling. Over the last 18 years, Rao has ushered in a renaissance for enterprise technology by rewriting the very foundations of IT strategy with an ethos of integration, agility, and cloud innovation. Rao's extensive career has placed him squarely at the front of enterprise technology evolution. With immense leadership skills as a Technical Manager in Engineering, he has diverse experience in Cloud Architecture, Middleware Infrastructure, Application Development, and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). But it is his remarkable combination of technical depth with business outcomes that does set him apart as a visionary leader in the IT matured fields. Advertisement === Now Rao has channeled years and years of insightful efforts into deeper study: Enterprise-Ready IT Transformation; that is, an award-winning book not intended to be yet another guide for technologists, but a strategic blueprint for any membership organization moving into today's complex IT ecosystems. Designed for CIOs, technology leaders, platform engineers, and enterprise architects alike, the book provides a comprehensive roadmap to build scalable, secure, and business-aligned IT infrastructures that support sustainable innovation. At its heart, Enterprise-Ready IT Transformation crosses the bridge of vision and execution. Rao gives readers a nuanced understanding of how to architect end-to-end enterprise integration using both legacy and next-gen technologies. The book is exceptionally timely for the cloud-native era, where distributed systems, multi-cloud environments, and containerized applications are pushing traditional IT frameworks to their limits. Advertisement === 'Enterprise-readiness is not merely a question of newly implemented tools or a move into the cloud; it goes well beyond that. It's about future-proofing your architecture, infrastructure, and operations,' writes Rao. Through a combination of real-world case studies, architectural diagrams, and strategic frameworks, the book equips professionals with the tools to rethink their IT ecosystems. With respect to the technical precision and academic rigor brought into every chapter by Rao, he delves deep into enterprise application development, a little further beyond the normal challenges of matching IT capabilities with business processes. This book also examines the nitty-gritty details of areas such as analytics, integration platforms, and cloud ecosystems and thereby appeals to decision-makers and engineers alike. 'Transformation doesn't begin with tools-it begins with thinking,' Rao emphasizes. 'Enterprise readiness means building systems that are not just modern but scalable, reliable, and aligned with business value.' But Rao's contribution is not confined to the printed word. In his 20-year career, he has led many digital transformation efforts with the potential for high impact and measurable outcome-whether by utilizing real-time analytics to optimize supply chain operations or by enhancing middleware platforms that would support transactions at a global scale. His contributions enshrine the importance of aligning people, processes, and technology to create competitive advantage. In Enterprise-Ready IT Transformation, he talks about the cultural and operational changes that must happen in order to possess real agility in IT. He talks about how those changes allow technology teams to become resilient, adaptive, and high-performing-from DevOps principles to platform engineering practices. The reception to the book has been overwhelmingly positive, with praise for clarity and depth and relevance. Enterprise architects, systems integrators, and IT strategists have embraced it as an essential tool for their profession. Given that cloud computing and digital transformation are rewriting the rules of business, Rao's thought leadership provides a timely and actionable perspective. Case in point in Rao's career includes leading Macy's overhaul of its in-store POS systems. This was a high-risk, high-reward transformation. Chillapalli recalls saying, 'This program has been the harrowing yet rewarding experience of my career. It has been a journey of growth and learning for me.' Chillapalli further explained that 'this achievement is testament to the incredible teamwork behind delivering a solution that will truly impact our customers and store colleagues.' 'Enterprise-Ready IT Transformation' serves as a compass and northern star, whether modernizing or transforming a legacy system, implementing a cloud-first strategy, or leading a global integration project. For Rao, it's a manifestation of his abiding faith: the right architecture, the right mindset, the right leadership can make technology the ultimate enabler of innovation. And this isn't the end for Rao; it is only the beginning. He envisions a future where IT will not be afterthought business, but indeed business: 'We need systems that evolve as quickly as strategy,' he explains. 'Only then organizations can respond to disruption with resilience, and to opportunity with speed.' Being an enterprise, on the one hand, grappling with the rapid technological upheaval, and on the other, the complexities involved in AI and Cloud integration would make N.T. Rao Chillapalli's expertise invaluable today. As his book will remind the reader that transformation, when done right, is never just IT but an enterprise evolution, it is sure to be beacon and message for those seeking to navigate complexity.
Associated Press
27-01-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
FrieslandCampina Selects Wipro to Transform their IT Operations
AMERSFOORT, Netherlands & BENGALURU, India--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 27, 2025-- Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO), a leading technology services and consulting company, today announced that it has been selected by FrieslandCampina, a global dairy company with over 150 years of heritage, as their trusted strategic partner to deliver business outcomes aligned with FrieslandCampina's strategic ambition. During the five-and-a-half-year engagement, Wipro will be managing the company's Core IT Services and will provide FrieslandCampina with support in key areas including end-to-end Service Management, Infrastructure & Cybersecurity Services as well as Enterprise Application Management Services. This engagement will also encompass overarching digital transformation programs, HR and employee services to ensure leading operational excellence, end-user experience, and business continuity. Graziella Neuvéglise, Regional Head and Managing Director - Benelux, Nordics and Southern Europe, Wipro Limited, said 'We are excited to work with FrieslandCampina on this comprehensive partnership. Leveraging our wide-ranging technology expertise, we will support FrieslandCampina's strategic objectives of enhancing profitability and sustainable growth; with IT services designed to improve business outcomes and drive innovation.' Holger Janßen, Global Director Enterprise Technology Services, FrieslandCampina, said 'Our strategic partnership with Wipro is a pivotal element to achieve our long-term vision. Leveraging Wipro's extensive expertise in IT delivery and transformation will be instrumental in continuously elevating our efficiency and ability to innovate fast.' About Wipro Limited Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients' most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world. For additional information, visit us at Forward-Looking Statements The forward-looking statements contained herein represent Wipro's beliefs regarding future events, many of which are by their nature, inherently uncertain and outside Wipro's control. Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding Wipro's growth prospects, its future financial operating results, and its plans, expectations, and intentions. Wipro cautions readers that the forward-looking statements contained herein are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results anticipated by such statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in our earnings, revenue and profits, our ability to generate and manage growth, complete proposed corporate actions, intense competition in IT services, our ability to maintain our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks, our ability to successfully complete and integrate potential acquisitions, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies in which we make strategic investments, withdrawal of fiscal governmental incentives, political instability, war, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, unauthorized use of our intellectual property and general economic conditions affecting our business and industry. Additional risks that could affect our future operating results are more fully described in our filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, including, but not limited to, Annual Reports on Form 20-F. These filings are available at We may, from time to time, make additional written and oral forward-looking statements, including statements contained in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and our reports to shareholders. We do not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by us or on our behalf. SOURCE: Wipro Limited Copyright Business Wire 2025. PUB: 01/27/2025 08:09 AM/DISC: 01/27/2025 08:10 AM
