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HCL Technologies Ltd is a global technology company. The company is primarily engaged in providing a range of software services, business process outsourcing and infrastructure services. The company leverages an extensive offshore infrastructure and its global network of offices in various countries and professionals to deliver solutions across select verticals including Retail, Aerospace and defense, Automotive, Telecom, Financial Services, Government, Hi-tech, Media and Entertainment, Travel, Transportation and Logistics, Energy and utilities, Life Sciences and Healthcare. HCL Technologies Ltd was incorporated in the year 1991 as HCL Overseas Ltd. The company received the certificate of commencement of business on February 10, 1992. In July 14, 1994, the name of the company was changed to HCL Consulting Ltd
. In the year 1996, the company formed a 50:50 joint venture namely HCL Perot Systems NV with Perot Systems Corporation to provide access to high value client base of Perot Systems. HCL Technologies focuses on Transformational Outsourcing, working with clients in areas that impact and re-define the core of their business after their IPO in 1999 with aim of foray into the global IT landscape and in the same year, the company changed its name to HCL Technologies Ltd. The company started to create wholly owned subsidiaries to cater specific geographic regions from the year 1999. They had the widest service portfolio among Indian IT service providers, with each of its services having attained critical mass. In the year of 2000 the company set up a dedicated offshore development centre in Chennai for KLA-Tencor Corporation, a supplier of process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related microelectronics industry. HCL Comnet, the wholly owned subsidiary company in association with its new partner Globeset Inc introduced net security management solutions. The company launched the Nokia professional centre in New Delhi, second among the chain of centres across the country. In the year 2001, the company entered into a strategic alliance with Nasdaq-listed Vitesse Semiconductor to develop software solutions for global networking markets. They also entered into a strategic alliance with Toshiba Information Systems (Japan) Corporation to set up a dedicated offshore software development centre for developing embedded software for the Japanese company. HCL Comnet Systems & Services Ltd, a fully owned subsidiary company was gone into the business of Web-enabling applications through the launch of demand-chain management solutions. In the year 2002, the company acquired Gulf Computers Inc, USA and formed a JV with Answerthink, Inc., a leading US based provider of technology enabled business transformation solutions to Global 2000 firms. A strategic technology joint venture was made with Jones Apparel Group, Inc. Jones Apparel Group, Inc. a Fortune 500 Company in the same year and also entered into a joint venture with M.A. Partners, a management consulting firm to address software services opportunities in Global Finance Markets, especially in the areas of Investment Banking, Asset Management and Private Banking. M.A. Partners brings a wealth of domain expertise and clients including many of the top Global Investment Banking firms to the JV. In the year 2003, BT Group UK's telecom service provider gave a contract worth of $160 million for BPO service operations. The company set up an exclusive centre in Noida for exeucting the orders given by BT Group. The software business of HCL Infosystems Ltd was transferred to the company. The company set up Insurance Solutions Center in Chennai. In the year 2004, the company entered into a strategic tie-up with IBM Rational Software, a division of IBM, to strengthen its software development capabilities. The company was conferred the prestigious Excellence in Education Award for 2004 by the Life Office Management Association (LOMA). In August 2004, BPO delivery centre in Chennai got BS7799 certification, by the British Standards Institute (BSI). They introduced Cross View; a framework based Computer Systems Validation (CSV) methodology for the development of robust software applications in the Life Sciences arena. In the year 2005, SEBI made a tie up with the company for market surveillance and the company formed joint venture with NEC, Japan. The company amalgamated their six wholly owned subsidiaries namely, DSL Software Ltd, Shipara Technologies Ltd, HCL Technologies BPO Services Ltd, HCL Technologies (Mumbai) Ltd, Aquila Technologies Ltd and HCL Enterprise Solutions (India) Ltd with the company. In February 2005, the company acquired an Irish Call centre and this acquisition establishes the company's position as the single largest BPO Centre operation on the Island of Ireland. In the year 2006, the company launched RoHS Compliance Management System for Medical Device Users and entered $70 million outsourcing deal with Teradyne of US. HCL developed Trusted ICT Infrastructure Platforms for BPO-ITE'S Segment and has linked pact with Canada based electronics manufacturing services company Celestica Inc to jointly design and manufacture electronic products for global original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The company forayed into an alliance with $200 million Saudi Arabian company namely Advanced Electronics Company (AEC) to implement IT projects in West Asia in the year 2007 and formed a strategic alliance with Eckler to strengthen Insurance Domain expertise. The company made USD 15 million contract with Aleni Aeronautica, to provide engineering services that will support the improvement of the C-27J Spartan production line. In the year 2007, HCL Venture Capital Ltd, a company incorporated in Bermuda and downstream subsidiary of the company was merged with HCL Bermuda Ltd. Also, HCL Technologies (Mass) Inc., a company incorporated in United States of America and a down stream subsidiary of the company was merged with HCL America Inc. During the year 2007-08, the company incorporated their wholly owned subsidiary viz. HCL Technologies (Shanghai) Limited. Through this entity the company established its first sales and delivery center in Shanghai with an initial investment of Rs 2.77 crore. In order to consolidate its position in Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) space, the company acquired the balance 49% stake in its Joint Venture Company viz. HCL EAI Services Inc., a California corporation for a consideration of Rs. 13.32 crore through their downstream subsidiary HCL America Inc., a company incorporated in USA. With this acquisition, HCL EAI Services Inc. became 100% subsidiary of the company. Further, HCL EAI Services Inc. was amalgamated with HCL America Inc. with effect from July 1, 2008. During the year, the company set up four branches at Dublin in Ireland, Zurich in Switzerland, Tel- Aviv in Israel and Prague in Czech Republic. In December 2007, the company and Jones had entered into an agreement (Termination Agreement) to terminate the Joint Venture agreement entered in June 2002. As a part of the termination agreement, a subsidiary of the Company has obtained binding commitments for the provision of IT services to Jones, with an aggregate contract value of Rs. 96.8 crores (USD 22.5 million) upto 2012. Further, pursuant to this termination, the Joint Venture Company in Bermuda viz. HCL Jones Technologies (Bermuda) Limited will be wound up. During the year 2008-09, the company acquired all the capital stock of Axon Group Ltd (formerly known as Axon Group Plc), a leading UK based SAP consulting company for a cash consideration of Rs3,302.39 crores by way of a cash offer made by the company to the shareholders of Axon Group Ltd. The company acquired all the capital stock of HCL Insurance BPO Services Ltd (formerly known as Liberata Financial Services Ltd) (IBS), incorporated in UK. Also, the company acquired all the capital stock of HCL Expense Management Services, Inc (formerly known as Control Point Solutions, Inc) (CPS) for a cash consideration of Rs 107.65 crore. During the year, the company set up six subsidiaries to carry out the activities in Special Economic Zone in different locations in India to get various tax benefits. They also set up their branches in different locations to expand its operations in new geographies. The company set up their branches in Dubai, UAE, Helsinki, Portugal, Finland and Macau during the year ended June 30, 2009 while the branch in Russia was set subsequent to June 30, 2009. In September 2008, HCL BPO expanded their global presence to the USA with the acquisition of Control Point Solutions (CPS). This acquisition makes HCL BPO the first Indian BPO to enter the Telecommunications Expense Management (TEM) market. CPS has been rebranded to HCL Expense Management Services (HCL EMS). During the year 2009-10, the company set up their step down subsidiaries in Denmark viz. HCL Technologies Denmark ApS and in Norway viz. HCL Technologies Norway AS. Also, they set up their branch office in USA. During the year 2010-11, as per the scheme of amalgamation, HCL Technoparks Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, was amalgamated with the company with effect from August 27, 2010. They incorporated HCL Technologies France, PT HCL Technologies Indonesia, HCL Technologies Philippines, Inc, HCL Arabia LLC, Anzospan Investments Pty. Limited, HCL Technologies South Africa (Proprietary) Ltd and Filial Espanola De HCL Technoloiges S.L. as step down subsidiaries of the company. Also, they closed down their two steps down subsidiaries viz. Aspire Solutions Sdn. Bhd., a company incorporated in Malaysia and Axon EBT Trustees Limited, a company incorporated in United Kingdom. In January 2011, it acquired certain software assets of Citi Securities and Fund Services. In July 2011, the company was selected to provide application management services to IKEA. In September 2011, the company signed a strategic five year, Application Support Transformation deal with Deutsche Bank's Capital Markets arm. The service factory delivery model implemented by HCL is expected to enhance productivity, driven by transparent Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and performance metrics, and comes as Deutsche Bank endeavors to move away from a traditional applications support model to a set of process driven services governed by global standards like Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and LEAN. In October 2011, Cast SA signed a strategic partnership agreement with the company to strengthen the ASSESS-SMART services of HCL Technologies. In February 2012, the company signed an agreement with State Street Bank and Trust Company (State Street) to provide business process outsourcing services in support of a variety of State Street's investment services businesses. Also, they entered into a strategic relationship with Great American Insurance Group (GAIG), a company in specialty property and casualty insurance, to provide Integrated IT services, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Infrastructure Management Services to GAIG and its affiliates.