HCL to develop IT infrastructure for Alstom

HCL Technologies today said it has signed a new IT infrastructure deal with French multinational firm Alstom.
"Alstom engagement is HCL's one of the largest infrastructure services engagement across France and Benelux," HCL Technologies Corporate Vice President Ashish Gupta.
Under the agreement, HCL will leverage its IT infrastructure capabilities to provide workplace engineering services, roll out PC as a Service (PCaaS) for 30,000 users worldwide and will enable local end-user support services across 360 locations in 62 countries.
Additionally, HCL will establish a multilingual global service desk offering support for Alstom in 11 languages including more than 50 per cent French speaking users.

These services will be delivered by leveraging HCL's three global delivery centers located in Poland, Brazil and India.
As part of this partnership, HCL will also set up the organisation's Services Integration and Management (SIAM) function from conception that will enable Alstom to achieve 'multi sourcing service integration'.

"Following the sale of Alstom Energy and central support functions to GE on November 2, it was our priority to ensure a smooth and continuous IT operations.
In order to that, we needed IT Partner who can help define, develop and implement our IT transformation roadmap for the next 5 years. As such, HCL was the right partner for Alstom," Alstom CIO Christine Heckmann said.

- Profit / (Loss) before interest, taxes and after
exceptional items was INR (101.5) Crore
- Profit / (Loss) before tax and after exceptional items was INR (140.6) Crore
Logo: https://bsmedia.business-standard.comphotos.Prnewswire.Com/prnh/20160503/10145315 ) 9-month (July-March FY16) Business Highlights*
- 9-month ended Mar 31, 2016 Revenue at INR 3,718 Crore
- Enterprise products distribution business registered INR 732 Crore revenue
- Consumer distribution business registered revenue of INR 1,893 Crore
- System Integration (SI) and Solutions continued its focus on execution with revenues of INR 404 Crore - order book at Rs. 1180 Crore as on 31st March 2016
- Earnings before interest, taxes and exceptional items was INR (79.8) Crore

- Profit / (Loss) before tax and after exceptional items is INR (253.1) Crore
* HCL Infosystems Ltd. Has changed its current Financial Year by shortening it to 9 months i.E. O end on March 31, 2016 (from July 01, 2015 to March 31, 2016) to comply with the requirement of the Companies Act.
HCL Infosystems, one of India's premier IT Services, Distribution and Digital Solutions Company, today announced its financial results for the third quarter and for the nine months ended March 31, 2016.
The SI business was on track on execution and commercial
enablement for payments."
Enterprise Business The core Enterprise Business consisting of Enterprise Products Distribution, Domestic Enterprise Services, Global Enterprise Services and Care Services showed positive traction and will be the engine for the Company's next level of growth. The business continued its strong performance, growing 19% Q-o-Q and 34% Y-o-Y in revenues.

The Enterprise Products Distribution portfolio was further strengthened with addition of leading international technology brands during the last three quarters. With a differentiated value added distribution proposition, growing strategic partner alliances and channel network, the business is set on a sustainable growth trajectory.
Enterprise Services business kept its focus firm on capability enhancements in the emerging technologies space. The business bagged prestigious deals from major clients, including leading companies in the BFSI sector.
Consumer Business
The Consumer Distribution business witnessed 20%
contraction in Q-o-Q Revenue, affected due to continuing telecom product and price rationalization by the Principal especially in the entry-level category.

System Integration (SI) & Solutions
The SI and Solutions business registered revenue of INR 404 Crore for the three quarters in the financial year with orders worth Rs. 81.24 Crores executed in the JFM 2016 quarter. The total order book size stood at INR 1,180 Crore as on 31st March'16. During the year, major Telecom and Power Projects were progressed towards commercial closure. The UIDAI project crossed the milestone of enrollment of more than 100 crore Aadhaars.
Awards & Recognitions during JFM 2016
- HCL Infosystems won the "Operational Excellence Award" for Order Management Process at the National Quality Excellence Award in February 2016.

- HCL Care won Asia Retail Excellence award in the 'Mobile and Telecom Service Category' in February 2016.
About HCL Infosystems
About HCL
Founded in 1976 as one of India's original IT garage
start-ups, HCL is a pioneer of modern computing with many firsts to its credit, including the introduction of the 8-bit microprocessor-based computer in 1978 well before its global peers. Today, the HCL enterprise has a presence across varied sectors that include technology, healthcare and talent management solutions and comprises four companies - HCL Infosystems, HCL Technologies, HCL Healthcare and HCL TalentCare. The enterprise generates annual revenues of over US$ 7 billion with more than 105,000 employees from 100 nationalities operating across 31 countries, including over 500 points of presence in India. For further information, visit www.Hcl.Com [http://www.Hcl.Com ]

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