News Report 2009 
Global CIO: Outsourcer HCL To Cut Insurer's Costs By $150 Million
HCL is taking on an end-to-end chain of processes in a deal valued at $200 million that blends IT infrastructure and services with deep business processes and more.
Visit SiteEquitable Life Signs Multi-million Deal with HCL
Equitable Life Assurance Society (Equitable Life), has signed a service contract worth $200 million with HCL IBS, a part of HCL Technologies.
Visit SiteHCL Tech inks $200-mn pact with UK-based insurance co
The country's fourth largest software exporter, HCL Technologies, today said it has bagged a USD-200 million contract from the UK-based insurance firm Equitable Life Assurance Society.
Visit SiteEquitable Life outsourcing deal to save 8 mln stg
British life insurer Equitable Life said it expected savings of 8 million pounds ($13.29 million) this year after appointing pensions firm HCL to administer its book of policies, replacing Lloyds Banking Group .
Visit SiteSlump Sinks Visa Program
Instead of bringing over Indian engineers, HCL has been hiring American employees who otherwise might have been let go by clients switching the work to HCL, Mr. Srikrishna said. Last year, HCL hired more than 1,000 employees from clients and received just 87 H-1B visas, he said.
Visit SiteIT firms increase focus on Indian media
Coverage in ZDNet Asia – In this story Karan Puri - Sr. Vice President, Global Vertical Head-Telecom, Media & Entertainment, HCL Technologies has provided his thought leadership inputs on the emerging microverticals in M&E vertical and while bringing up industry/ customer pain points, he discusses the technologies that will address the publishers’ woes.
Visit SiteGreen IT will top the technology disruption
Coverage in CXO Today – This is an exclusive interview done with HCL by CXO Today. In this GH Rao, Corporate Vice President and Head, Engineering and R&D Services, HCL Technologies discusses the trends in the R&D offshoring space, the post-recession scenario and growth of R&D business in the domestic market.
Download PDFHCL takes on the world
The technology market in India was not then as it is now. "At the time, the Indian economy was a very closed one. Companies were necessarily self-reliant and did their own research and development. We couldn't get access to US technology, so we wrote our own operating systems and our own device drivers and we marketed them and all the applications software around them," Says, Rajeev, President - HCL Europe
Visit SiteHCL sees opportunities in mid sized, large pharma cos during slowdown phase
Mid sized and large pharma and biotech companies are reorganizing to optimize business processes through increased adoption of IT solutions. HCL is gearing up to maximize its presence in the segment.
The company has seen pharma companies grappling with disparate applications, redundant infrastructure and federated structure. There is a growing need to invest in technology solutions like ERP, CRM & SCM, DW/BI, enterprise application integration, lab automation tools and EDC. Companies can achieve control over processes, costs, efficiency, productivity as well as enable business to have better decision making capability, Pradeep Nair, global head, Life Sciences, Healthcare & Chemical Practice, HCL Technologies told Pharmabiz.
Firms innovate to bring back fun at work
Technologies unveiled its motto "No Hclite will be left behind," late last year. "So far, we have had two big open houses where over 40,000 employees participated and the top management allayed staff concerns related to the downturn. The common message to all was to work hard and also upgrade their skill sets," says D K Srivastava, head, corporate human resources, HCL.
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