HCL Technologies' Customers to Share Global Best Practices at Gartner Outsourcing & Vendor Management Summit
By Hcl Technologies Ltd, PRNETuesday, September 14, 2010
GARTNER Outsourcing & Vendor Management Summit, Orlando, FLA., Sept. 15, 2010
ORLANDO, Florida, September 15, 2010 - HCL Technologies, a leading global IT services provider, today
announced its participation as a platinum sponsor at the Gartner Outsourcing
& Vendor Management Summit that begun yesterday in Orlando, Fla. HCL is
sponsoring two informational sessions during the summit, led by senior
executives from Pearson and Oncor Electric Delivery Company.
HCL sponsored a luncheon session titled "Creating and Driving
Business Value Leveraging a Global IT Sourcing Partnership," yesterday at
12:15 p.m. Marty Racioppi, Head of Pearson's Technology Sourcing Office,
shared his insights and experiences in designing a highly tailored and nimble
global sourcing partnership, which has helped Pearson transform many aspects
of its overall business.
In addition, Joel Austin, Vice President and CIO, Oncor, an
HCL customer, will lead a boardroom presentation today at 11:00 a.m. on "Best
Practices in Complex Business Critical IT Transitions." Austin's presentation
will address the importance of preventing disruption to business critical IT
applications and processes during times of transition. Austin will also
discuss the importance of aligning business goals to strategies supported by
optimal technology solutions, tools and standards, as well as employee
involvement in implementing successful transition plans to ensure continued
business growth.
"As organizations continue to emerge from recession, they face
a wealth of new IT and organizational challenges and are increasingly turning
to global delivery service models to improve quality, innovation and
productivity, while significantly reducing costs," said Shami Khorana,
President, HCL Americas. "HCL continues to demonstrate industry leading
growth in the global outsourcing sector with a laser focus on delivering
business value and innovation, which fosters strategic customer
relationships. We are honored to showcase two highly valued customers and
industry thought leaders at this year's Gartner Outsourcing Summit."
To learn more about HCL Technologies, please visit Booth 8 at
the Gartner Outsourcing & Vendor Management Summit or at www.hcl.com.
About Gartner Outsourcing & Vendor Management Summit
The Gartner Outsourcing & Vendor Management Summit is the only event that
provides a comprehensive view of the entire outsourcing market -
infrastructure, application and business process outsourcing, global delivery
and the use of offshore providers, as well as issues and trends about new
delivery models, such as SaaS. The Summit provides unbiased, road-tested
advice and best practices necessary for setting outsourcing strategies and
objectives, evaluating and selecting the right service providers and managing
relationships with them. Additional information is available at
www.gartner.com/technology/summits/na/outsourcing/index.jsp.
About HCL Technologies
HCL Technologies is a leading global IT services company,
working with clients in the areas that impact and redefine the core of their
businesses. Since its inception into the global landscape after its IPO in
1999, HCL focuses on 'transformational outsourcing', underlined by innovation
and value creation, and offers integrated portfolio of services including
software-led IT solutions, remote infrastructure management, engineering and
R&D services and BPO. HCL leverages its extensive global offshore
infrastructure and network of offices in 26 countries to provide holistic,
multi-service delivery in key industry verticals including Financial
Services, Manufacturing, Consumer Services, Public Services and Healthcare.
HCL takes pride in its philosophy of 'Employee First' which empowers our
64,557 transformers to create a real value for the customers. HCL
Technologies, along with its subsidiaries, had consolidated revenues of US$
2.7 billion (Rs. 12,565 crores), for the year ended as on 30th June 2010. For
more information, please visit www.hcltech.com
About HCL
HCL is a $5 billion leading global technology and IT
enterprise comprising two companies listed in India - HCL Technologies and
HCL Infosystems. Founded in 1976, HCL is one of India's original IT garage
start-ups. A pioneer of modern computing, HCL is a global transformational
enterprise today. Its range of offerings includes product engineering, custom
& package applications, BPO, IT infrastructure services, IT hardware, systems
integration, and distribution of information and communications technology
(ICT) products across a wide range of focused industry verticals. The HCL
team consists of over 64,000 professionals of diverse nationalities, who
operate from 26 countries including over 500 points of presence in India. HCL
has partnerships with several leading Global 1000 firms, including leading IT
and technology firms. For more information, please visit www.hcl.com
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For details contact: Kirsten Paragona Director of External Communications, HCL +1-857-350-5393 kparagona@hcl.com Danielle Millerick BluePoint Marketing for HCL Technologies +1-781-861-7800 danielle@bluepointmktg.com
Kirsten Paragona, Director of External Communications, HCL, +1-857-350-5393, kparagona at hcl.com, Danielle Millerick, BluePoint Marketing for HCL Technologies, +1-781-861-7800, danielle at bluepointmktg.com
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