HCL Technologies Limited is a leading global IT services company that helps global enterprises re-imagine and transform their businesses through Digital technology transformation. The Company is primarily engaged in providing a range of software services, business process outsourcing and infrastructure services. It leverages an extensive offshore global technology workforce and intellectual properties to deliver solutions across select verticals including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences & Technology Healthcare Services, Public Services, Retail & CPG, Oil & Gas, Energy & Utilities, Travel, Transportation & Logistics, Telecom, Government, Media, Publishing and Entertainment.
HCL Technologies Limited was incorporated on November 12, 1991 as 'HCL Overseas Limited'. The Company received the Certificate of Commencement of Business on February 10, 1992. On July 14, 1994, name of the Company was changed to HCL Consulting Limited and again to HCL Technologies Limited on October 6, 1999. In 1996, 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. 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 sec