Media & Entertainment practice at HCL is more than a decade old (12+ Years) with a strong team of dedicated consultants. HCL has in-depth domain knowledge and expertise in this vertical gained through long-term relationships with customers, strategic partnerships and alliances with some of the leading Media and Entertainment companies. We understand the changing and specific requirements of the Media and Entertainment enterprises and has micro-verticalized the M & E practice at all levels of service. We have specific focus on Publishing (Book, Newspaper & Magazines), Gaming (Casino & Lottery), Music, ISV’s, Business Information Services, Broadcasting and New Media Companies.

HCL sees this world of convergence and opportunity, and the need to migrate from the traditional analogue to modern digital world. While the industry needs traditional services, it also needs to migrate to a digital supply chain. HCL has molded itself as the one-stop partner for both traditional and digital needs. At HCL, we follow a 3-Stage Strategy Approach to target our potential customers in this Vertical. At Stage 1, we provide Unified Service Offerings across ecosystem to address needs of media companies. At Stage 2, we planned to investment in Vertical Excellence to create synergies for convergence, and at Stage 3 we focus on Sweet Spots to create a differentiated strategy to Dominate, Differentiate, Invest and Grow in this vertical.

HCL is best equipped to provide IT-enabled solutions to M&E enterprises to keep pace with the rapidly changing trends of the industry. HCL's M&E practice has acquired deep domain knowledge gained through long-term relationships with customers and strategic partnerships and alliances with some of the leading Media and Entertainment companies.

Vertical Highlights

• Media & Entertainment Practice - 12+ years of focus - Most Experienced IT Offshore Service Provider in the Industry
• 10000+ person years of M&E experience
• Micro-verticalized Approach - Publishing (Book, Newspaper and Magazine), Business Information Services, Gaming (Casino and Lottery), New Media (Online, Recorded Music and Broadcasting)
• Global Vertical Solutions Group, fostering domain led innovation via SMEs/ Industry Leaders, Solutions/ IPs, Industry Events/ Forums, Alliances/ Partnerships and Training & Certification
• Digital Media & Publishing Lab providing technology leadership and transformation to Media & Entertainment Industry
• Investment in 10+ IPs and frameworks
  • Content 2.0 (A Network Publishing Platform for New Age Publishers)
  • SIMFoNIE (Information Management Framework for specialized information provider)
  • Vertical Search Engine (Artificial Intelligence-based Web Harvesting Framework)
  • UDRMS (Unified Digital Rights Management System)
  • 3i methodology
  • IMPACT (Integrated Media Platform for Asset centered Transformation)
  • Ad Impression (Advertising solution for Ad Agencies and Media owner)
  • eWIXA (XML content Authoring Framework), eXP, eMediaManager (Storyboard creation framework)
  • Social Networking Platform 2.0
  • Collaborative Learning (Courseware authoring, delivery, analytics and collaboration framework)
  • eStore (framework for online web stores)
  • Digitale (FPGA-based Newspaper digitization, storage & retrieval framework)

Customer Pedigree

• 4 out of the Top 5 Publishing Companies worldwide
• 3 out of the Top 4 Music Companies worldwide
• Top 2 Gaming solution providers
• 2 out of Top 3 operators in Casino Segment
• Rated - No 1 Offshore IT Service provider in Lottery and Casino Gaming

M&E Service Mix

Business Lines

• 4 out of the Top 5 Publishing Companies worldwide
• 10000+ person years of IT experience in publishing industry
• Experience in all the areas of the publishing industry including authoring, editorial management, digital asset management, digital rights management, royalty management, physical online sales, marketing, production planning & inventory management, digital distribution, customer service, marketing portals, warehouse management, learning management system, assessment & testing, consumer/market research, product engineering, CRM, 24/7 global web support etc