Wipro Technologies Limited is a multinational information technology services corporation headquartered in Bangalore, India. Wipro is the third-largest IT services company in India and employs more than 98,391 people worldwide as of 2009. It has interests varying from information technology, consumer care, lighting, engineering and healthcare businesses. Azim Premji is the Chairman of the board.

Wipro (largely an acronym of "Western India Products") started as a vegetable oil trading company in 1947 from an old mill at Amalner, Maharashtra, India founded by Azim Premji's father. When his father died in 1966 Azim, a graduate in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, took on the leadership of the company at the age 21. He repositioned it and transformed Wipro (Western India Vegetable Products Ltd) into a consumer goods company that produced hydrogenated cooking oils/fat company, laundry soap, wax and tin containers and later set up Wipro Fluid Power to manufacture hydraulic and pneumatic cylinders in 1975. At that time, it was valued at $2 million.

In 1977, when IBM was asked to leave India, Wipro entered the information technology sector. In 1979, Wipro began developing its own computers and in 1981, started selling the finished product. This was the first in a string of products that would make Wipro one of India's first computer makers. The company licensed technology from Sentinel Computers in the United States and began building India's first mini-computers. Wipro hired managers who were computer savvy, and strong on business experience.

In 1980 Wipro moved into software development and started developing customized software packages for their hardware customers. This expanded their IT business and subsequently developed the first Indian 8086 chip.

Since 1992 Wipro began to grow its roots off shore in United States and by 2000 Wipro Ltd ADRs were listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

The company's revenue grew by 450% from 2002 to 2007. This success has led to higher salaries (wages have been growing by more than 14% per year since 2005), which puts pressure on the company's margins.