Indian IT giant Wipro has joined forces with enterprise application software provider SAP to develop blockchain use cases for the utilities industry.

The announcement comes as Wipro recently launched industry-specific solutions on SAP Leonardo. According to the official release, the first set of solutions will focus on the utilities industry, while the next will cover the consumer and manufacturing industries.

SAP Leonardo is a holistic digital innovation system that comprehensively integrates future-facing technologies and capabilities into SAP Cloud Platform.

Wipro said it will leverage SAP Leonardo themes such as IoT, blockchain, machine learning, Big Data, insights and analytics to build solutions that will support insight-driven decision-making for customers. It plans to build microservices as extensions to the SAP Leonardo portfolio on SAP Cloud Platform

As part of the partnership, Wipro will develop industry-specific analytics “apps” on its insights-as-a-service solution, Data Discovery Platform, leveraging SAP Leonardo analytics, Big Data and data intelligence capabilities, the release said.

“We are keen to leverage SAP Leonardo to drive innovation for our customers. Given our strengths in blockchain, IoT, machine learning and analytics, and our long-standing partnership with SAP, we believe that we are well positioned to build industry-specific digital solutions to power our customers’ transformation journey,” Bhanumurthy B.M., President and Chief Operating Officer, Wipro Limited, said.