HCL Technologies Hosts Its Fourth-Annual Global Customer Meet - Nov 25, 2008

More than 500 of the top business minds in the world discussed, debated and collaborated in Orlando last week about how to engage in a successful, sustainable, environmentally conscious business in the wake of the current global economic slowdown as HCL Technologies hosted its fourth-annual global customer meet. Dubbed Unstructure 2008, the concept is an annual compendium of thoughts compiled from both the physical event and an online forum (www.unstructure.org) where participants have and will continue to exchange action-oriented ideas.

The company made this announcement during the trading hours today, 25 November 2008.

HCL Technologies Partners With Visiprise To Provide Professional Services To Global Manufacturer In

HCL Technologies Ltd (HCL) has announced that the Company has entered into a global consulting partnership with Visiprise, Inc. for the Life Sciences industry, covering all aspects of the medical device manufacturing cycle. Visiprise provides manufacturing execution solutions (MES) that help global manufacturers to gain visibility into operations, achieve shop floor control and manage product and process traceability. The consulting agreement will include joint marketing, sales and pre-sales services and will result in the ability for seamless licensing, blueprinting, implementation, plant-business integration, roll out, support, upgrade / migration and instance consolidation services to manufacturers.

The strategic partnership will further strengthen HCLs position as Innovators / leaders in the Manufacturing IT landscape with initial focus on medical devices further expanding to Hitech, Aerospace, Auto and other discrete industries. Under this agreement Visiprise will also be training and certifying HCL consultants on Visiprise solutions.

Speaking on the occasion Mr. Pradep Nair, VP, Global Life Sciences and Healthcare practice, of the Company said, With increasing global competition, it is imperative for manufacturers to innovate faster, cheaper, with sustained / better quality meeting stringent regulatory norms. Manufacturers are therefore making strategic investments in comprehensive IT solutions focused towards improving efficiency in the plant operations and Increasing collaboration between engineering, enterprise and plant functions as well as extended eco systems such as partners and suppliers. HCLs partnership with Visiprise is well poised in bringing about the transformational change in plant operations. We believe that Visiprises technology and strategic alignment with SAP and PLM vendors will help customers in seamless business integration from shop-floor to top-floor, which aligns well with HCLs focus towards Manufacturing IT solutions and services.

HCL Technologies Launches SOA Competency Center For Retailers At NRF 2008

HCL Technologies Ltd on January 15, 2008 announced the launch of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) Competency Center for Retailers at this weeks National Retail Federation Convention. The competency center is designed to guide retailers in the areas of SOA tool selection, development methodology and project execution, leveraging an industry-specific set of services and the deep expertise of HCL team members in areas relevant to SOA and BPM.SOA and BPM testing are very complex, time-consuming processes due to inadequate, legacy homegrown frameworks, said Vikram Duvvoorl, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Middleware & SOA Practice, HCL Technologies. As they require a fresh perspective towards development, testing, security and other aspects of project life cycle, HCL has focused on accelerating the process for our retail customers through specific tools and technologies for testing and security for SOA applications.Specifically, one of HCLs solution frameworks, HCLs xFIT, addresses testing and security problems retailers will face when implementing SOA and BPM. With HCLs xFIT framework to manage and automate SOA and services testing, Companies can more easily develop, orchestrate and maintain distributed test cases. The framework offers multi-platform support (UNIX, LINUX, AIX and Windows), is lightweight and minimally intrusive, and is also easy to learn and deploy. Furthermore, HCLs xFIT provides Companies with the ability to easily run test cases on multiple Systems under Test (SUT) configurations, leading to significant time savings. HCLs xFIT was built by HCL to enable integration testing, and has been successfully deployed in many customer locations to date.