Market Segments
Consumer / SMB Applications
Industry Challenges
- Marketing, Sales and Distribution
- Compatibility across devices and platforms
- Interoperability with different applications
- Ability to take end-to-end ownership of products
- Experience of having engaged in end-to-end ownership of over 10 different products for Top ISVs
- Leverage HCL’s dedicated Tools Group to reduce costs and time-to-market
Vertical Applications
Industry Challenges
- Customization and Configuration to provide customers applications which are tailored to their specific industry or function
- Reduce the costs for relatively small size companies (due to the full-loading of all expenses like licensing, implementation, integration, training etc.)
- Launch SaaS version of the product using HCL SaaS enablement platform AGORA™
- Utilize HCL’s deep domain expertise across major verticals such as Banking, Retail, Insurance, Manufacturing, Life Sciences & Healthcare, Telecom. etc. gained from leadership in product engineering services across these verticals
Enterprise Software / Services
Industry Challenges
- Building an SMB strategy
- Developing SaaS offerings
- Boost maintenance and service revenues to offset falling license revenue
- Diversify into the Middleware arena
- Joint product development, product sustenance and end-of-life services
- Partnership model with innovative risk/ gain-sharing models
- HCL’s ability to target key functional areas such as R&D and Applications (CRM. etc.)
- Leverage existing relationships
ISP & Web Portals
Industry challenges
- Enable appropriate business models to maximize revenues from search queries
- High entry-barriers due to involvement of complex algorithmic technologies
- Increasing growth of alternate business models like the ones used by Facebook
- Diversify revenue streams away from advertising revenue towards paid services, content partnerships, e-commerce, and SaaS offerings
- Extensive experience in Geo Spatial search, Local search, Desktop search and Mobile search
- Ability to be a business and risk sharing partner in the development of portals – Suit engagement business model to match the client’s business model (e.g. “Pay per Click”)
- A successful IEP (Invest, Engage, and Partner) Business Model
- Capability to target key applications / services by offering end-to-end solutions spanning product development, testing, production support and customer support
Security
Industry Challenges
- Cater to the growing need of SMBs for security technology and services
- Move towards a single product to manage antivirus, personal firewalls, intrusion prevention system (IPS) software, and policy enforcement
- Sales, Marketing and Distribution since products often come bundled with PCs
- Partner to architecture and develop business critical and highly secure Security products and applications
- End to end engineering services across all lifecycle phases and consulting services for Security Product and Services Vendors
- Qualifying products and applications for industry / Statutory standard security compliances
- Capability and experience across all key elements of Security Domain – Authentication and Access Control, Availability, Data Integrity, Data Confidentiality and Non-Repudiation
E-Commerce
Industry Challenges
- Navigate to better solutions around user interface design, payment and shipping integration and peak server-load handling
- Diversify away from exclusive online retailing – since such exclusive retailers account for only around 30% of the overall e-commerce transactions
- Continue discovering new revenue streams through proprietary product offerings (Amazon Kindle), SaaS and advertising
- Support business critical platforms, improve user experience, performance and provide easy technology and platform integration
- Strong functional, technical and process capabilities to provide end to end product engineering and professional services
- Certified solution-provider for Elastic Path
