Wipro joins BiTA to drive blockchain adoption

Indian software services company Wipro has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA) to drive blockchain technology adoption in the transportation Industry. The company that it intends to use this platform to help ideate platform-agnostic blockchain standards for the logistics and transportation industry. The Tennessee-based group provides a platform to develop and embrace common frameworks and standards using which industry participants can build innovative blockchain applications. Wipro, which helps global organisations in their blockchain adoption journey through its comprehensive suite of offerings, will focus on driving the design and development of production-grade blockchain solutions for industry use cases, leveraging its strong portfolio of patents and IPs, pre-built frameworks, and other assets, said the company in a statement. Craig Fuller, managing director, BiTA, was quoted in the Wipro statement saying: “We look forward to working closely with Wipro's blockchain experts to drive enterprise scale blockchain adoption for global transportation organisations, specifically around use cases such as supply chain traceability, trade finance, provenance, fraud detection and compliance management.” Srini Pallia, President, Consumer Business Unit, Wipro, said: “We will collaborate with BiTA and our customers to take a business use-case approach and leverage blockchain to solve complex new-age logistics and transportation issues.”