HCLTech Nomination for Australia Partner of the Year 2026

Redefining Partnership Excellence in Australia

HCLTech stands as Microsoft’s most transformative partner in Australia, redefining the boundaries of strategic collaboration to deliver measurable and lasting business impact. Together, we are:

  • Bending the curve on innovation by co-innovating with Microsoft to accelerate time-to-value and unlock new growth opportunities.
  • Reinventing customer engagement by leveraging data, AI and cloud-native platforms to create hyper-personalised, omnichannel experiences.
  • Reshaping business processes with agile, scalable digital architectures that drive operational excellence and resilience.
  • Enriching employee experiences through intelligent solutions that empower people, foster collaboration and elevate productivity.
Engineering Intelligence at Scale: HCLTech x Fonterra

Engineering Intelligence at Scale: HCLTech x Fonterra

This joint vision is already delivering exceptional outcomes for leading enterprises such as Cricket Australia, Coles, Elders and Fonterra where HCLTech has demonstrated unmatched execution at scale and speed.

As the prestigious 2024 Microsoft ANZ Innovation Partner and Dynamics 365 Service Partner of the Year, we've earned recognition for our ability to turn Microsoft's vision into a market-leading reality. Our elite status as

  • Microsoft Frontier Partner acknowledging our leadership in enterprise AI adoption and the strengths of our Advanced AI portfolio
  • Microsoft Responsible AI Partner, an ecosystem of trusted collaborators shaping the future of ethical AI
  • Among the first system integration companies to collaborate with OpenAI

These recognitions position HCLTech at the epicentre of AI innovation, where our Enterprise AI Foundry is revolutionizing how Australia’s most critical industries harness intelligent technology.

Redefining Partnership Excellence in ANZ

Customer Stories

Cricket Australia’s AI-Powered Fan Engagement Platform

Cricket Australia’s AI-Powered Fan Engagement Platform

Cricket Australia partnered with HCLTech and Microsoft to deliver AI-powered, real-time match insights that transformed fan engagement at scale, driving 1+ billion views, 25 million downloads and a 4.8-star app rating.

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Elders’ AI-Powered Virtual Trainer for Enterprise Learning

Elders’ AI-Powered Virtual Trainer for Enterprise Learning

Elders partnered with HCLTech to develop an AI-powered Virtual Trainer on Microsoft Azure, delivering real-time, personalized learning support that accelerated Dynamics 365 adoption and improved employee productivity.

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Project Alfered: Automating Price Tag Verification

Project Alfered: Automating Price Tag Verification

Coles partnered with HCLTech and Microsoft to co-develop Project Alfred, an AI-powered solution that automates price tag verification, improves pricing accuracy and strengthens compliance across 1,600+ stores.

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Penrith City Council's AI-Powered Knowledge Search Modernization

Penrith City Council's AI-Powered Knowledge Search Modernization

Penrith City Council partnered with HCLTech to build an AI-powered knowledge assistant using Microsoft Copilot Studio and RAG, enabling faster access to trusted information and reducing repetitive policy enquiries by 70%.

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Fonterra's AI-Powered Export DocumentationTransformation

Fonterra's AI-Powered Export Documentation Transformation

Fonterra partnered with HCLTech to automate export documentation validation using Microsoft Azure and GenAI, achieving 95% straight-through processing, 85% validation accuracy and reduced payment risk across 140+ countries.

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Customer Testimonials

Customer Quotes

Our goal is simple: We need to change how we do things if we are to meet the demands of our growing community now and in the future. Moving to a modern digital platform will create efficiencies in how we work, which will support staff and improve service delivery and will facilitate greater engagement and collaboration opportunities with our community. We aspire to be a leader in digital transformation in local government in New Zealand and we are confident that HCLTech is the ideal partner to help us achieve that.”

Leonie Rae

CEO, Tasman District Council

This partnership supports the Council’s five-year IT Strategy and was established through a rigorous procurement process. HCLTech has proven strengths in delivering smart, innovative IT services to the public sector.”

Robert West

General Manager of Corporate Services, Dunedin City Council

Coles’s partnership with HCLTech started with a small engagement in distribution space—optimizing and redefining our release management process. But within a short period, they brought in test automation and took over the services part, followed by taking a leap of faith going into modern engineering practice.”

Rahul Gupta

Head of Technology, Store team at Coles Group

Thanks HCLTech for your support and effort over the last two year. Track and Trace is an ambitious project. Many interlaced datasets and interfaces with a highly customized ERP, changing schedules, a massive data migration and the challenges of working with many stakeholders. I appreciate your hard work, patience, adaptability and most of all persistence in helping us with a very complex project. It has been a pleasure working with such a professional team that has supported us for so long and I’m very proud of the working partnership we have built with your team.”

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Asset Management Supply Chain, Rio Tinto Iron Ore

Microsoft Testimonials

We’re excited to bring cutting-edge AI technology to cricket fans through our partnership with Cricket Australia and HCLTech. This innovation demonstrates how generative AI is transforming the way we interact with the world around us, bringing insight, meaning and personalisation to audiences old and new.”

Sarah Carney

Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft Australia and New Zealand

HCLTech is a leader in contact center transformations and is well positioned to help customers harness the power of AI to drive operational efficiency, scale and growth. We are thrilled to expand our partnership with HCLTech, who shares our vision of leveraging AI to transform the CCaaS market.”

Charles Lamanna

Corporate Vice President, Business and Industry Copilot at Microsoft

Leadership Rankings in Key Analyst Reports

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HCLTech positioned as a Leader in IDC MarketScape: Asia/Pacific Professional and Managed Services for Microsoft Azure 2025 Vendor Assessment

HCLTech named a CX Star Performer in ISG Star of Excellence™ for Microsoft AI & Cloud Ecosystem

HCLTech recognized as the only Customers' Choice in 2026 Gartner Peer Insights for Public Cloud IT Transformation Services

HCLTech positioned as a Leader in ISG Provider Lens® Agentic AI Services - Global, 2025

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HCLTech Positioned as a Market Leader in HFS Horizons: Generative Enterprise Services, 2025 report

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HCLTech named a CX Star Performer in ISG Star of Excellence™ for GenAI

ISG Provider Lens™ Microsoft AI and Cloud Ecosystem - AI Services for the Microsoft Clouds - Australia 2025

ISG Provider Lens™ Microsoft AI and Cloud Ecosystem - Managed Services for Azure - Australia 2025

ISG Provider Lens™ Microsoft AI and Cloud Ecosystem - Microsoft 365 Services - Australia 2025

Awards and Recognitions

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2025 ISG Paragon Awards: Sustainability alongside WaterNSW

Finalist

2025 Financial Review AI Awards: Creativity and Entertainment alongside Cricket Australia

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2024 Microsoft ANZ Innovation Partner of the Year

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2024 Microsoft Dynamics 365 Partner of the Year

Finalist

2024 Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales and Customer Insights Partner of the Year

Finalist

2023 Microsoft Intelligent Automation Partner of the Year

Finalist

2023 Microsoft Dynamics 365 Services Partner

Finalist

2023 Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales and Marketing Partner

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2023 Microsoft Security Excellence Awards for Identity Trailblazer

Microsoft Recognitions

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Microsoft Frontier Partner

Microsoft Fabric Featured Partner

Included in Microsoft’s 2025/26 AI Business Solutions Inner Circle

Microsoft Responsible AI Partner

Preferred Partner for Microsoft's Nuance Enterprise Professional Services

Microsoft Azure Expert MSP

Member of Microsoft Intelligent Security Association

Microsoft Solutions Partner : Microsoft Cloud & AI

23 Microsoft Specializations

Solutions Partner Designations

Data-and-AI
Digital-and-App-Innovation
Infrastructure-Azure
Modern-Work
Security
Business-Applications

About the HCLTech and Microsoft Partnership

Description

Our partnership aims to help customers unlock the benefits of Microsoft’s entire portfolio of products and services. We are focused on enabling enterprise customers to embrace disruptive innovation by migrating to and building, cloud-native services that help clients fulfil their business goals.

This rich legacy partnership has spanned over 35 years. We were the 1st GSI to be awarded all six Microsoft Solutions Partner Designations and have 23 Microsoft specializations.

strategic collaboration which will enable us to embed OpenAI’s industry-leading models and solutions across our industry-focused offerings, capabilities and proprietary platforms, including AI Force, AI Foundry, AI Engineering and industry-specific AI accelerators. It’s just one more way we are strengthening our partnership with Microsoft.

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Microsoft Specializations

80,000+

Trained Microsoft Engineers

32,000+

Microsoft certified professionals

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Solutions Partner Designations

Engagements

HCLTech at Microsoft AI Tour Sydney | April 2026

HCLTech at Microsoft AI Tour Sydney | April 2026

HCLTech was a sponsor at Microsoft AI Tour Sydney where we showcased HCLTech is bringing AI That Delivers ROI to enterprises through our deep Microsoft partnership and helping organisations transform with confidence.

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HCLTech had the opportunity to deliver Microsoft’s PowerCAT Kickstarter three day event in Sydney

HCLTech had the opportunity to deliver Microsoft’s PowerCAT Kickstarter three day event in Sydney

HCLTech delivered the three-day Microsoft PowerCAT Kickstarter event in Sydney, helping business and technology leaders accelerate AI adoption with Microsoft Copilot and AI agents.

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HCLTech's 10-year partnership with Dunedin City Council

HCLTech's 10-year partnership with Dunedin City Council

HCLTech announced its strategic partnership with Dunedin City Council to modernize IT services and drive digital transformation. This 10-year collaboration will focus on improving service delivery, strengthening cybersecurity and enhancing community engagement through advanced automation and AI solutions.

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We appreciate your consideration for ANZ Partner of the Year 2026

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