Unique propositions

360 degree Partnership

We are ideally positioned to form 360-degree partnerships with our customers, provide concept to revenue solutions and offer the following advantages to our customers:

• Manage the risk of introducing new products that use the latest technologies
• Leverage the transformational value of technology convergence
• Increase end-user adoption and retention through a differentiated experience
• Maximize revenue from products through joint go-to-market partnerships
• Help clients manage and leverage the latest technological advancements

SaaS Enablement

HCL, with its leadership position in product engineering and infrastructure services, including hosting partnerships, is in a position to provide a gamut of services ranging from product re-architecting, development, hosting, and service delivery management to enable ISVs to offer software as a service (SaaS) delivery model to their customers.

Untangling the web with First 2.0

HCL, a leader in offshore software engineering and R&D services, has been pioneering the thought leadership of Web 2.0 technologies since its humble beginnings in blogs. Web 2.0 calls for leveraging the long tail through customer-self service and algorithmic data management to reach out to the entire web.

Today, we offer FIRST 2.0®, a suite of end-to-end engineering services, to any software product or service company that wants to harness the true power of the web.

Our value proposition to our customers lies in our five-fold benefits for customer success:

• Faster Time to Market
• Innovation Framework - I4U
• Refined User Experience
• Services on Demand
• Transformational Value

Centers of Excellence

As part of our Software Product Engineering practice we have established a number of CoEs in key technology areas like digital protection, open source, HPC/Grid, and location-based services. The CoEs have a charter to build competencies, thought leadership, intellectual property, and specialist solutions. The two of our major CoEs are the Digital Protection CoE and the Open Source CoE called LAMP.

The Digital Protection CoE, started in 1998, primarily focused on securing and safeguarding digital assets. The CoE now enjoys a strong team of 160 professionals who are experts in different areas of digital protection. The CoE offers specialized services and solutions that encompass the six primary attributes of digital security, namely, authentication, authorization, auditing, confidentiality, data integration and non-repudiation.

LAMP represents the open source web platform. LAMP is an acronym that is derived from a set of free software programs, commonly used together, to run dynamic web sites or servers:

• Linux, the operating system
• Apache, the web server
• MySQL, the database management system (or database server)
• Perl, PHP, Python, and (rarely) Primate, scripting and programming languages

LAMP is the platform of choice for the development and deployment of high-performance web applications. The LAMP stack allows the user of a web browser to execute a program on the web server and thereby receive dynamic as well as static content.

The LAMP center at HCL is a new initiative to address the customers who wish to shift to open source to take advantage of the lower total cost of ownership (TCO). Our unique proposition lies in listening and fully understanding the customers’ requirements and then offering a complete solution starting from consulting to product engineering, and professional services. We have a team of skilled resources who are well versed in the entire LAMP stack, and who come up with solutions to achieve customer delight.