October 23, 2014
Noida, India, Johannesburg, South Africa, October 22, 2014: HCL Technologies, a leading global IT services provider today announced that the company has signed an IT Infrastructure transformation contract with The De Beers Group of Companies, the world’s leading diamond business.
Leveraging its Enterprise of Future (EoF) offering, HCL will deliver end-to-end IT infrastructure solutions including data centre operations, multi-lingual service desk, LAN Management, Security Services, Service Management including tools, desk side support and project services to transform De Beers’ IT Infrastructure across the globe. HCL already manages the IT Infrastructure of Anglo American plc, the majority shareholder of De Beers and the current deal allows a tighter integration across the two companies with common technology platforms and IT Service Management.
Craig Charlton – Group CIO, De Beers Group said, “Where we have previously had several service providers in each local region, this agreement affords us more comprehensive management of our underlying IT environment and enables us to run a more industrialised infrastructure service that underpins our broader IT strategy.”
“This deal marks HCL’s continued expansion in emerging markets like South Africa and many locations across Africa, Latin America and Asia. It further strengthens HCL’s presence in the mining vertical,” said Ashish Gupta, Executive Vice President & Head – EMEA, HCL Technologies ISD. To access the article, please click here.
About HCL Technologies
HCL Technologies is a leading global IT services company working with clients in the areas that impact and redefine the core of their businesses. Since its emergence on global landscape after its IPO in 1999, HCL has focused on ‘transformational outsourcing’, underlined by innovation and value creation, offering an integrated portfolio of services including software-led IT solutions, remote infrastructure management, engineering and R&D services and Business services. HCL leverages its extensive global offshore infrastructure and network of offices in 31 countries to provide holistic, multi-service delivery in key industry verticals including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Consumer Services, Public Services and Healthcare & Life sciences. HCL takes pride in its philosophy of ‘Employees First, Customers Second’ which empowers its 95,522 transformers to create real value for the customers. HCL Technologies, along with its subsidiaries, had consolidated revenues of US$ 5.5 billion, as on 30th September 2014 (on LTM basis). For more information, please visit www.hcltech.com.
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Samrat Banerjee
Corporate Communications
Samrat.banerjee@hcl.com
