Stamford, CT [May 1, 2023] – Rizing, a Wipro company (Rizing), announced today that it recently earned the ArcGIS System Ready Specialty certification from Esri®, a global leader in cloud-based geospatial products and services. Esri awards this certification to early adopters of Esri’s geographic information systems (GIS) software who are dedicated to maintaining compatibility with Esri technology in their products and services.

Rizing Commits to Continual Improvement with ArcGIS Systems

To achieve the ArcGIS System Ready Specialty certification, Rizing must ensure that Esri-integrated products are kept current and that Rizing consultants remain up to date with Esri technology and training standards. Rizing schedules ongoing Esri training, participates in the Esri Early Adopter Community, and attends the Esri monthly technical enablement webinars to ensure consultants remain experts.

“We’re excited to achieve the Esri ArcGIS System Ready Specialty certification,” says Connie Gurchiek, President, Rizing Geospatial. “It signifies our commitment to combining Esri’s technology with Rizing products, leveraging our market-leading expertise to deliver world-class GIS-enabled products and services to our customers.”

Rizing’s Geospatial group offers a number of GIS-related products and services including LiDAR and custom geospatial application development.

About Rizing, a Wipro company
It’s the experience that matters. Rizing professionals help your business succeed at any point in your Enterprise Asset Management journey. Rizing’s objective is to empower your business to unlock the intelligent enterprise with SAP cloud technologies, our geospatial solutions, and our proprietary, cutting-edge products to optimize and extend SAP such as Lifecycle Pricing, attune Fashion Suite, Lyra, Carbon, Mercury, Hydrogen and OmniSpatial. With real-life experience in business areas like consumer industries, enterprise asset management, and human capital management, we know how to simplify your digital transformation so your business can be everything you want it to be. From targeted small business needs to full-scale large enterprise resource planning solutions, our SAP-certified consultants focus on your growth. For more information, please visit www.rizing.com or contact: Rizing Intermediate Holdings, Inc. at +1 (203) 517-0400, info@rizing.com

About Wipro Limited
Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients’ most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready sustainable businesses. With over 250,000 employees and business partners across 66 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world.

Press Contact:
Sherryanne Meyer
Sherry.meyer@rizing.com

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Author John Steinbeck called it “The Mother Road.”

You know it as Route 66.

Created in the mid-1920s, Route 66 connected the main streets of rural and urban communities to develop the first national route from Chicago, IL, to Los Angeles, CA.

Mapping out Route 66 required using early surveying equipment like poles, chains, and “transit theodolites” – a steampunk-looking device that combined a spirit level, a precision telescope, leveling screws, and a vernier scale.

If you wanted to create Route 66 today, you’d work with the Transportation GIS (GIS-T) community members.

2023 GIS-T Symposium

The Geospatial Information Systems for Transportation Symposium (GIS-T) comprises the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, state-level Departments of Transportation, the Federal Highway Administration, various transportation-related research councils, and transportation industry products and services providers.

And fittingly, this past week found the GIS-T community gathering on Route 66.

The annual Geospatial Information Systems for Transportation Symposium moves yearly, but the 2023 event was in Oklahoma City, OK.

According to the conference website:

“The GIS-T Symposium brings together professionals from government and private industry interested in the use of GIS for transportation. Network, share experiences, share knowledge, see state-of-art software, and learn more about this field. Join your fellow professionals in addition to the 40+ exhibitors in the technology hall.”

State Summary and Roll Call

A unique event at the Symposium is the State Summary & Roll Call of States. A representative from each state can address the crowd for one minute, summarizing their accomplishments of the past year and listing goals for the following year.

Notable accomplishments included:

• Completion of risk assessments
• Cloud migrations (often to corporate offerings like Amazon and Google)
• Disaster recovery planning
• Rockfall mitigation
• Evacuation route planning
• Asset management implementation
• Crash analysis

Notable goals included:

• Exploring Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
• Creating digital twins
• Implementing data governance
• Using LiDAR to detect asset changes
• Using drones for data collection
• Gathering vertical clearance data for sharing with navigation companies
• Creating a “citizens insights” app

Rizing at GIS-T

Scheduled breaks from symposium presentations brought visitors to Rizing’s exhibition booth on the tradeshow floor. Visitors enjoyed a mix of business and pleasure, with a ski-ball competition available in between demonstrations of Rizing’s GIS-related products, including:

• Road Analyzer – share data across your organization and provide access to local or state agencies
• Mercury – simplify complex SAP and GIS integration
• OmniSpatial – browser-based field and office data collection
• Productivity Tools – linear referencing maintenance and analysis
• Road Video Viewer – video log viewing across multiple years of collection
• HPMS Assistant – tools for FHWA’s annual HPMS submittal process

GIS-T Takeaways:

The Rizing booth staff had a busy time connecting with other attendees. Some of their takeaways included:

“DOTs have lots of data, but it’s captured in disparate systems,” says Rizing Senior GIS Consultant Logan Erikson. “Getting that data consolidated and integrated is an ongoing challenge.”

“I’ve definitely learned more about HPMS (Highway Performance Monitoring System),” says Rizing Senior GIS Analyst Paige Drippé.

“The conference validated the need for intersection management,” says Rizing Senior Project Manager Jesse Day. “We saw it coming. The Federal Highway Systems Model Inventory of Roadway Elements (MIRE) data collection requirements are causing a real deadline now.”

Next Up, Atlanta

Atlanta will host the 2024 GIS-T Symposium.

Maybe the Georgia DoT officials can offer tips for navigating the 71 different Atlanta roads with “Peachtree” in the name.

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Rizing is an experienced provider of SAP digital transformation solutions with real-life expertise in consumer industries, enterprise asset management, and human capital management. Rizing Geospatial adds GIS services and products to Rizing’s SAP offerings and specializes in geospatial business and data processes; data integration and reporting; linear referencing system (LRS) design and implementation; and spatial data design and visualization.

Building on over a decade of experience with Esri’s products and services, the Silver partnership allows Rizing to increase its industry reach and support more customers with access to the world’s leading geospatial intelligence platform.

“We’re excited to announce our Esri Silver Partnership,” says Connie Gurchiek, President, Rizing Geospatial. “The increased collaboration available through the higher tier of partnership demonstrates our continued dedication to building on Esri’s geospatial platform as we expand our customer base to new industries.”

Rizing Geospatial’s products include:

• Road Analyzer, the leading straight-line diagramming (SLD) solution in the transportation market
• Mercury, a bi-directional interface that simplifies and accelerates integrations between SAP Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
• Omnispatial, a browser-based field and office data collection and integration product

Rizing also offers LiDAR and custom geospatial application development services.

About Rizing, a Wipro company
It’s the experience that matters. Rizing professionals help your business succeed at any point in your SAP journey. Rizing’s objective is to empower your business to unlock the intelligent enterprise with SAP cloud technologies, our geospatial solutions, and our proprietary, cutting-edge products to optimize and extend SAP such as Lifecycle Pricing, attune Fashion Suite, Lyra, Carbon, Mercury, Hydrogen and OmniSpatial. With real-life experience in business areas like consumer industries, enterprise asset management, and human capital management, we know how to simplify your digital transformation so your business can be everything you want it to be. From targeted small business needs to full-scale large enterprise resource planning solutions, our SAP-certified consultants focus on your growth. For more information, please visit www.rizing.com or contact: Rizing Intermediate Holdings, Inc. at +1 (203) 517-0400, info@rizing.com

About Wipro Limited
Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients’ most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready sustainable businesses. With over 250,000 employees and business partners across 66 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world.

Press Contact:
Sherryanne Meyer
Sherry.meyer@rizing.com

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Any statements in this release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties described in SAP’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC), including its most recent annual report on Form 20-F, that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. SAP cautions readers not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements which SAP has no obligation to update and which speak only as of their dates.

SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP SE in Germany and other countries. Please see https://www.sap.com/copyright for additional trademark information and notices. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.

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STAMFORD, CT – December 8, 2021 – Rizing, LLC is pleased to announce that Rizing Geospatial, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rizing, LLC (Rizing), has been added to the Texas Department of Information Resources (Texas DIR) Cooperative Contracts Program for geospatial products and related services on behalf of the State of Texas. This award makes these solutions available to state and local government, public education, other public entities in Texas, as well as public entities outside the state.

“We are excited to be a part of the Texas DIR Cooperative Contracts Program and look forward to working with state and local agencies throughout Texas and the rest of the country,” says Connie Gurchiek, President, Geospatial, Rizing LLC. “The program provides us a flexible contract mechanism to offer our unique blend of geospatial products and services as well as LiDAR-related offerings to a broader group of clients.”

Rizing Geospatial, LLC solutions are available under DIR Contract:
https://dir.texas.gov/contracts/dir-cpo-4816

Learn more about Rizing Geospatial, LLC:
https://rizing.com/geospatial-solutions/

About Rizing
It’s the experience that matters. Rizing professionals help your business succeed at any point in your SAP^® journey. Rizing’s objective is to empower your business to unlock the intelligent enterprise with cloud technologies from SAP, our Geospatial solutions, and our proprietary, cutting-edge products: Blueline, Lyra, Lifecycle Pricing, Carbon, Mercury, and Hydrogen available on the SAP Store. With real-life experiences in business areas like enterprise asset management, human capital management, and consumer industries, we know how to simplify your digital transformation so that your business can be everything you want it to be. From targeted small business needs to full-scale large enterprise resource planning solutions, our SAP-certified consultants are focused on your growth. For more information, please visit www.rizing.com.

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SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP SE in Germany and other countries. Please see https://www.sap.com/copyright for additional trademark information and notices. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.

Any statements in this release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties described in SAP’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent annual report on Form 20-F, that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. SAP cautions readers not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which SAP has no obligation to update and which speak only as of their dates.

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Editor’s Note: International Women’s Day 2020 draws attention to the difference individuals can make with #EachforEqual. We asked our leaders to contribute their perspectives and are proud to share those here in this blog series. In this article, Connie Gurchiek, Geospatial President of Rizing reflects on her life as a strong, independent and successful woman and how gender has impacted her career. 

I see myself as a strong, independent, and successful woman. I’d like to believe that those that know me would agree.  As I write this on International Women’s Day, I am reflecting on how the woman part of that statement has shaped my independence and success and my thoughts on females in the workplace today.

On Being An Independent Woman

One of my earliest memories is of my mom telling me that more than love or wealth or happiness, she wanted me to be independent.  That way, if I couldn’t rely on the marriage partner I chose, or if he died or walked out on me, I could take care of myself.  She said that I needed to make decisions early in life that would assure that I had choices later in life.  Now that was impactful!  Today, my sister and I are independent, maybe to a fault.

On Being a Successful Woman

It’s a bit harder to define the why of success.  But I would certainly like to believe that it is not because I am a female, but rather because of my accomplishments and my approach and attitude to the various jobs I have held throughout the years.  Of course, being female certainly impacted my career – both in positive and negative ways.

I have lived in a male-dominated world for more than 40 years. I was drawn to math and science in high school in the late 1970s.  That meant that many of my classes had very few girls.  I then got a degree in chemical engineering, graduating in 1985.  Again, my life choices meant that I was in the gender minority.  My career has been very technical, and even today, in 2020, I mainly work with men.

Four stories stand out in my long male-dominated career.

Becoming a Successful Woman as the Lone Female

Early on, I was working with a large engineering software company.  I started traveling, and I felt blessed to be able to see almost every state in this beautiful country of ours.  Almost all of that travel was with men, and I was usually the more technical of the two of us.  Often as we began to present, almost always to a large room of men, I felt dismissed.  But that changed as I presented, and it became obvious that I was the one that understood what we were selling from a technical perspective.  In the end, most of the people remembered me because I was the rare female that came to visit.

I grew to feel that being female was more positive than negative, and I gained a lot of recognition and knowledge through all of those client visits.  In addition, the vast majority of the men that I traveled with were respectful, wonderful human beings.  Maybe I’m just lucky, but while I have had inappropriate sexist and sexual things said to me, I have never been threatened by my male colleagues.

Working in a Control and Dominate Culture

The second and low point of my career was when I was working for an engineering firm. There the executives (all men) asked their assistants (all females) to call them Mr. So-and-So while the executives called the women by their first names.  This was just one example of the sexism that was truly systemic.  First, I tried to fight it, but when I realized that I was fighting a losing battle, I left.  The firm then proceeded to sue the company I moved to.  It was a very rough time.

The positive about the lawsuit was that it was the catalyst that made us start Transcend Spatial Solutions. That’s the third story.

Transcending the Marketplace with Geospatial

I and my four other founding partners (all men by the way) could write a book on what not to do when starting a company.  There was no careful planning.  We had no customers.  We had no money.  We didn’t even have a name.  What we did have was a lot of passion and a burning desire to succeed.  I look back at that time in early 2011, and I know that what drove me was my anger.  Whatever it was that drove the others, we were able to turn a truly horrible situation into a triumph.  We grew Transcend into a multi-million dollar company with about 40 employees.  I cannot begin to express my gratitude to the clients that trusted us with their business and to two of the men, Bill Schuman and Jesse Jay, that helped to start Transcend.

Rizing to Opportunity

Finally, the fourth chapter in my story was the  purchase of Transcend Spatial Solutions by Rizing.  I am so grateful to have landed in a company where we have a respectful and accepting culture and also the drive to continue to grow. I feel like I have an opportunity to continue to succeed, and even more importantly, our employees have exceptional opportunities to continue to move upward in their careers.

Gender Equality is Earned

So, all in all, why have I been successful?  I believe it’s because I have taken ownership of my career path and responsibility for both my failures and achievements. It’s because I have passion for what I do and a desire to be a lifetime learner.  I believe that there are times when being a female has helped me and times when it has been a detriment.  But… ultimately, it has neither made my career nor significantly impaired it.

I know that doesn’t fit the narrative for some women today, but I have never been a proponent of giving anyone of any gender, nationality, or background what they didn’t earn – good or bad.

I look at Transcend’s employees.  We have a group of all-female GIS Analysts, and they rock.  But none of them was hired because they were female.  They can rest assured that we hired them because of their capabilities and their potential.  We also have a group of all-male Project Managers.  They, too, are awesome, and they, too, were hired because they were who we believed were the most qualified candidates.

In general, I am so fortunate to work with a hugely talented group of people.  I want them all to be successful, and I appreciate all of their contributions – male or female.

Preferential Treatment Is Not Preferred

Lastly, don’t get me wrong.  I cheer right along with my female friends and coworkers when women do well.  I love to see women excel in the workplace. I’d also like to see more women in leadership roles both in my company, in politics, and as CEOs.  I have and will continue to promote women who deserve to be promoted.  I love mentorship programs that help women.

What I don’t want for myself or for any of my women coworkers is preferential treatment because of our gender.  I believe that causes resentment. And, even worse, it enforces the belief that some women have gotten ahead because of the feminist movement and not because of their capabilities. It’s insulting to think that women can’t compete unless they are given an advantage.

So… Instead of hiring or promoting a female just because she is female, I say hire the most qualified person. Let’s also expect the same, not higher, standards from our male counterparts.  Then and only then can we be equals in the workplace.

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