Wipro overhauls HR, cuts payroll time by 60% with Oracle cloud

Wipro has migrated its core payroll and recruitment systems to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, delivering a more than 50 percent uplift in recruitment performance and reducing payroll processing time by 60 percent.

Wipro said the shift was enabled via Oracle Base Database Service on OCI, supported by Oracle Interconnect links to Google Cloud for payroll and to Microsoft Azure for recruitment, allowing seamless data flow across its multicloud environment. The company computes that payroll processing time has dropped from over 70 minutes to just 29 minutes.

This move forms part of Wipro’s broader strategy to become an AI-first enterprise, optimising internal operations while holding up its promise of digital transformation to clients. The HR overhaul is positioned as more than cost cutting—it is pitched as enabling agility, resilience and talent retention across a workforce numbering over 230,000 in 65 countries.

According to Wipro’s vice president and global head of infrastructure and applications management, Harish Singh, strengthening internal systems underpins the company’s ability to scale talent operations globally. He said the deployment gives “flexibility, performance and security” for mission-critical HR workloads.

Oracle India’s vice president of technology cloud, Premalakshmi PR, described the collaboration as a blueprint for large enterprises balancing multicloud strategies, stating organisations can “run workloads where and how they choose.”

Industry watchers see Wipro’s initiative as emblematic of a growing trend in large-scale HR modernisation. Daphne Chung, research director for cloud services at IDC Asia/Pacific, says global firms are increasingly blending cloud platforms to support AI workloads and reduce legacy bottlenecks.

Yet challenges remain. Migrations at scale carry risks of data latency, compatibility, security exposure, and change management across human systems. Wipro must ensure that HR users, recruiters and employees adapt to new interfaces and workflows without disruption.

While improvements in performance are quantifiable, the softer outcomes—employee engagement, trust in system automation, and quality of recruitment decisions—will be the true test over time.