HCL AXON Expands Partnership with Sybase for Strategic Industries Mobile Solution Offering
HCL AXON Extends Services Portfolio for Travel and Logistics, Utilities and Financial Services Industry Solutions With Sybase's Enterprise Mobility Platform
JERSEY CITY, New Jersey and NOIDA, India, August 16, 2010 - HCL AXON, a division of HCL Technologies - an organization that delivers significant business value through innovative implementations of SAP® solutions - announced today a strategic development and Go-To-Market Partnership with Sybase Inc., an industry leader in enterprise and mobile software. The partnership will support a number of HCL AXON's key industries where the demand for a comprehensive mobile solution tightly integrated with SAP is driving rapid advances in workforce productivity. Built on the industry-leading Sybase® Unwired Platform (SUP), the mobile solution will focus on delivering key SAP capabilities in industries such as Utilities, Travel & Logistics, Oil & Gas and Financial Services.
HCL AXON is committed to meeting the exponentially growing needs of field workforces and SUP is the natural platform to address this market. Worldwide, mobile worker growth currently accounts for 29 percent of the workforce and is expected to grow to over 35 percent of the worldwide workforce by 2013 - representing a total of more than 1.2 billion workers. The joint HCL AXON and Sybase solution will boost worker productivity by delivering seamless integration between enterprise information resources and a broad range of mobile devices. The resulting ability to make informed, timely decisions while staying in close contact with key stakeholders will transform the way organizations operate their field workforces.
"Over the past year, HCL AXON has helped show customers the vast potential of mobile and multi channel access to their SAP solutions," said Ian Greenhalgh, executive president, Solution Management, HCL AXON. "As a result, the demand for anytime, anywhere access to SAP solutions using mobile devices has never been stronger. Our partnership with Sybase allows us to deliver instant value to our customers around the globe. With the Sybase Unwired Platform, we can provide any information required on any platform. It is a truly transformational solution."
"We are pleased that Sybase and HCL AXON have strengthened a partnership where the two companies team up to mobilize SAP solutions by using the Sybase Unwired Platform," said Willie Jow, vice president of mobility marketing, Sybase. "Enterprises in industries such as travel, transportation and utilities will receive tremendous productivity increase by enabling their workforce to access SAP applications on a mobile device."
HCL AXON is rolling out its first Mobile Solution for the Travel and Transportation industry. The solution will help railroad companies support their maintenance and inspection in the field with significantly more data and access to maintenance records for faster maintenance turnaround.
About HCL
HCL is a $5 billion leading global Technology and IT Enterprise that comprises two companies listed in India - HCL Technologies & HCL Infosystems.
Founded in 1976, HCL is one of India's original IT garage start-ups, a pioneer of modern computing, and a global transformational enterprise today.
Its range of offerings spans Product Engineering, Custom & Package Applications, BPO, IT Infrastructure Services, IT Hardware, Systems Integration, and distribution of ICT products across a wide range of focused industry verticals. The HCL team comprises over 64,000 professionals of diverse nationalities, who operate from 26 countries including over 500 points of presence in India. HCL has global partnerships with several leading Fortune 1000 firms, including leading IT and Technology firms. For more information, please visit www.hcl.in.
About HCL Technologies
HCL Technologies is a leading global IT services company, working with clients in the areas that impact and redefine the core of their businesses.
Since its inception into the global landscape after its IPO in 1999, HCL focuses on 'transformational outsourcing', underlined by innovation and value creation, and offers integrated portfolio of services including software-led IT solutions, remote infrastructure management, engineering and R&D services and BPO. HCL leverages its extensive global offshore infrastructure and network of offices in 26 countries to provide holistic, multi-service delivery in key industry verticals including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Consumer Services, Public Services and Healthcare. HCL takes pride in its philosophy of 'Employee First' which empowers our 64,557 transformers to create a real value for the customers. HCL Technologies, along with its subsidiaries, had consolidated revenues of US$ 2.7 billion (Rs. 12,565 crores), for the year ended on 30th June 2010. For more information, please visit www.hcltech.com.
For details, contact:
Kirsten Paragona
HCL Technologies
Phone: +1-857-350-5393
Email: kparagona@hcl.com
Jill Newberry
BluePoint Venture Marketing for HCL Technologies
Phone: +1-781-861-7800
Email: jill@bluepointmktg.com
Source: HCL Technologies
