Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2005 2:51 PM
HCL Technologies, Ltd., of India has signed a five-year agreement with Autodesk to provide offshore application and data center services. The deal, potentially worth $100 million, is the largest order for remote IT infrastructure management ever won by the company.
In a statement, HCL said it would support Autodesk in meeting global business requirements and projected growth over the next three to five years, “by leveraging world-class IT management processes and economies of scale.” HCL will provide application and data center services for business-critical IT applications including SAP, Siebel, Informatica and others. The agreement covers application administration, software configuration management, monitoring, maintenance, technical support, support tools and utilities implementation. More than 200 enterprise-class servers will be maintained.
Other companies competing for the contract included IBM, HP, Accenture and Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), Wipro, Infosys and Satyam. Contract billing begins February 2006 (the start of Autodesk’s next fiscal year) and runs through 2011. HCL claims it is the first India-based vendor to offer end-to-end remote infrastructure management services to clients in the US and Europe.
--RSN