HCL Technologies announces Global Services Partnership with SAP to deliver joint business value through 'Customer Centric Ecosystem'

HCL Technologies Ltd on February 21, 2008 has announced an expanded global services partnership with SAP AG (NYSE: SAP), that underscores SAP's focus on extending its industry lead in ecosystem innovation, and HCL's focus on delivering value to its customers through collaboration. HCL's new global services partnership with SAP is aimed at enabling Companies of all sizes to access the business benefits of enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) and draws upon HCL's strengths in emerging geographies, strong domain experience, risk taking and service innovation capabilities. This announcement is a milestone in a rapidly growing relationship between the two organizations, which further evidences their close links.

As part of the agreement, SAP and HCL will now partner to enhance value and accelerate growth for customers in a manner that will reduce implementation costs while providing strong domain centric solutions to transform their business processes.

HCL Technologies Joins a select group of the market's leading consultancies to join the 'SAP Global Partner — Services' program. As a new global services partner, HCL Technologies will Invest in significantly enhancing its SAP consulting practice and will create dedicated SAP sales resources and supporting marketing activities across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific HCL and SAP will create teams for solution definition, long term engagement and will co-develop new and extended functionalities to implement enterprise SOA based services in specific segments and verticals globally.

HCL’s global partnership with SAP is a step towards delivering on the promise of a services-based IT approach. By combining SAP's global market leadership in inter-enterprise solutions with HCL's domain expertise and focus of creating new markets and solutions through a Blue Ocean strategy- we plan to create and deliver new innovative solutions, that deliver unique customer value", said Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL Technologies.