Wipro Technologies has announced the successful implementation of an Integrated Work and Asset Management system for Wales and West Utilities (WWU). WWU is responsible for the transportation of gas throughout Wales and the South West of England.

Graham Edwards, chief executive, Wales and West Utilities, said "This is a major milestone for WWU and a great credit to all involved in such a major transition. The achievement is a major stride forward, after all we have replaced all of the mission critical systems required to run a gas distribution business in a relatively short span of time. IT is seen as a key enabler for our business and we now have a sound platform upon which to build going forward."

Tamal Das Gupta, senior vice president, Energy & Utilities, Wipro Technologies said, "This record implementation has been made possible thanks to Wipro's deep domain expertise in the Energy and Utilities space and our process and delivery leadership in handling large complex system integration, system delivery and testing services for global utility organisations."

Wipro had to replace around 57 disparate existing systems and transfer close to 60 GB of data pertaining to 13 million assets and work orders (5-7 years history), along with other details from a number of operational applications and data warehouses.