Wipro arm eyes deals in insurance business

said insurers can outsource human resource services, pay roll management, tele-marketing, call centre for registering complaints or answering enquiries among other services.

Potential for business growth from the insurance sector is strong for software companies, Sankaran said. “For technology vendors, the insurance sector in India at present is similar to what the telecom sector was three to five years ago,” he said.

In the past couple of years, Wipro Infotech has won big-ticket deals from mobile services providers. In 2008, the company won a nine-year integrated outsourcing deal from Aircel. It won another large nine-year deal from Uninor in 2009.