HCLTech Nomination for ANZ Partner of the Year 2025

Redefining Partnership Excellence in ANZ

HCLTech stands as Microsoft’s most transformative partner in ANZ, 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.
Redefining Partnership Excellence in ANZ

HCLTech and Microsoft partnership in ANZ

This joint vision is already delivering exceptional outcomes for leading enterprises such as Fonterra, Cricket Australia, Toll Logistics, Tasman District Council, Dunedin City Council and Rio Tinto, where HCLTech has demonstrated unmatched execution at scale and speed.

As the prestigious 2024 Microsoft ANZ Partner Innovation Winner 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 both a and the first system integration company to collaborate with OpenAI positions HCLTech at the epicenter of AI innovation, where our is revolutionizing how Australia and New Zealand's most critical industries harness intelligent technology.

Thank you for the opportunity to be considered for this prestigious recognition.

Redefining Partnership Excellence in ANZ

Customer Stories

Cricket Australia's AI-Powered Fan Engagement Transformation

Cricket Australia's AI-Powered Fan Engagement Transformation

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Fonterra's AI-Powered Export DocumentationTransformation

Fonterra's AI-Powered Export DocumentationTransformation

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Facilitating Toll Logistics' Transition to Microsoft Fabric

Facilitating Toll Logistics' Transition to Microsoft Fabric

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Project Alfered: Automating Price Tag Verification

Project Alfered: Automating Price Tag Verification

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MMG Limited's IT Operating Model Evolution

MMG Limited's IT Operating Model Evolution

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Digitizing Water Management for WaterNSW

Digitizing Water Management for WaterNSW

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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

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

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

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.”

Manager

Manager

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

Sarah Carney

Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft Australia and New Zealand

HCLTech’s new Enterprise AI Foundry, powered by Microsoft Azure and Azure OpenAI service, offers an innovative approach for customers who want to drive business transformation. Leveraging the Enterprise AI Foundry, customers will add momentum to their AI initiatives for tangible business impact.”

Marianne Roling

Marianne Roling

Vice President, Global System Integrators, Microsoft

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

Charles Lamanna

Corporate Vice President, Business and Industry Copilot at Microsoft

Leadership Rankings in key Analyst Reports

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

ISG Provider Lens™ Cybersecurity – Solutions and Services - Managed Security Services – SOC - Australia 2024

ISG Provider Lens™ Cybersecurity – Solutions and Services - Technical Security Services - Australia 2024

ISG Provider Lens™ Future of Work Services - Smart and Sustainable Workplace Services - Australia 2024

ISG Provider Lens™ Future of Work Services - Workplace Strategy and Enablement Services - Australia 2024

ISG Provider Lens™ Sustainability and ESG - Data Platforms and Managed Services - Australia 2024

ISG Provider Lens™ Sustainability and ESG - IT Solutions and Services - Australia 2024

ISG Provider Lens™ Sustainability and ESG - OT and Industry-specific Solutions and Services - Australia 2024

ISG Provider Lens™ Sustainability and ESG - Strategy and Enablement Services - Australia 2024

 

Awards and Recognitions

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Winner

2025 ISG Paragon Awards: Sustainability alongside WaterNSW

Finalist

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

Winner

2024 Microsoft ANZ Innovation Partner of the Year

Winner

2024 Microsoft Dynamics 365 Partner of the Year

Finalist

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

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2023 Microsoft Intelligent Automation Partner of the Year

Finalist

2023 Microsoft Dynamics 365 Services Partner

Finalist

2023 Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales and Marketing Partner

Finalist

2023 Microsoft Security Excellence Awards for Identity Trailblazer

Winner

2022 MSUS Power Apps Partner of the Year award

Winner

2022 Microsoft UK Partner of the Year

Accelerating AI Innovation at Scale

HCLTech is at the forefront of enterprise AI transformation, powered by deep partnerships with Microsoft and OpenAI. Our full-stack proposition addresses the entirety of an enterprise’s AI needs, covering business transformation, business processes, products, applications, platforms, data, cognitive infrastructure and semiconductor design. These full-stack capabilities are unparalleled in the market right now and our flagship offerings of AI Force™, Enterprise AI Foundry, AI Engineering, along with our global network of AI labs, are bringing them to life for our clients across the globe. Together, we’re shaping the future of AI with responsible innovation, unmatched agility and real-world impact.

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Microsoft Recognitions

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

20 Microsoft Specializations

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Solutions Partner Designations

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

About the HCLTech and Microsoft Partnership

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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 fulfill 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 achieved 20 Microsoft specializations.

a multi-year 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 , , and industry-specific AI accelerators. It’s just one more way we are strengthening our partnership with Microsoft.

35+

Years of partnership

80,000+

Trained Microsoft engineers

30,000+

Microsoft certified professionals

6

Solution partner designations

20

Microsoft specializations

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Published Resources

Thank you!

We appreciate your consideration for ANZ Partner of the Year 2025.

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