{"id":986256,"date":"2026-01-19T07:39:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986256"},"modified":"2026-01-19T07:43:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:13:02","slug":"ai-no-longer-an-added-layer-on-existing-systems-sandhya-arun-cto-wipro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/19\/ai-no-longer-an-added-layer-on-existing-systems-sandhya-arun-cto-wipro\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018AI no longer an added layer on existing systems\u2019: Sandhya Arun, CTO, Wipro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enterprises are increasingly moving from experimental projects involving agentic AI to deploying pragmatic, enterprise-wide strategies that emphasise tangible business value. As these technologies mature, the competitive advantage will belong to organisations that invest equally in their people and their platforms, says Sandhya Arun, CTO, Wipro. \u201cUltimately, success will depend on talent readiness and continuous skilling,\u201d she tells Sudhir Chowdhary in an interview. Excerpts:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enterprises are increasingly moving from experimental projects involving agentic AI to deploying pragmatic, enterprise-wide strategies that emphasise tangible business value. As these technologies mature, the competitive advantage will belong to organisations that invest equally in their people and their platforms, says Sandhya Arun, CTO, Wipro. \u201cUltimately, success will depend on talent readiness and continuous skilling,\u201d she tells Sudhir Chowdhary in an interview. Excerpts:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}