HCL Infosystems and Sun Microsystems partnership forges
ahead with major wins
Strengthening Partnerships :
Mr. Ajai Chowdhry, Chairman & CEO, HCL Infosystesms Ltd &
Mr. Scott G. McNealy,Chairman, President & CEO, Sun Microsystems , Inc.
Projects include automation of VAT services for Govt. of Andhra Pradesh
New Delhi, March 20, 2003 - The
successful partnership between HCL Infosystems, India's premier information enabling
company, and Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), has taken a leap forward with
two major wins. The deals have been signed with the Government of Andhra Pradesh
for the complete automation of VAT services and the Oil and Natural Gas Commission
(ONGC) for the installation and up gradation of Sun Systems for their projects
Shramik and Kuber, which are HR and Finance packages respectively.
Announcing
the orders, Mr George Paul, Associate Vice President - Marketing, HCL Infosystems
Limited, said, "The wins further strengthen the HCL-Sun relationship. Our
partnership with Sun has been extremely successful, and all our plans and expectations
are being realised."
In February 2002, HCL Infosystems and Sun signed a System Integration Agreement with
HCL Infosystems. In July 2002, the companies announced an expansion of their relationship
by entering into a Enterprise Distributor Agreement. As per the agreement, HCL
Infosystems will distribute the complete line of Sun enterprise products, leading
to a substantially increase in the market base for Sun. The data centre solutions
are the latest offering from the HCL-Sun alliance. "Our data centre solutions
offer a state-of-the-art infrastructure for information technology. Given our
expertise and Sun's unmatched leadership in this arena, we expect our solutions
to meet and exceed the needs and expectations of our customers," Mr Paul
added.
The project won from the Government of Andhra Pradesh (GoAP) involves the setting
up of a data centre for its Commercial Tax Department (CTD). The centralised data-base,
located at Hyderabad, will use Sun Microsystems' servers and data-centre solutions
to offer inter connectivity to various tax collection offices across the state.
GoAP has taken the initiative for the complete automation of Value Added Sales
Tax services. All the employees of the Commercial Tax Department located in various
locations across the state would be able to connect to the central data centre,
streamlining the working of the department. Among Indian states, Andhra Pradesh
has been the leader in deploying a series of initiatives to make IT citizen centric.
Mr Paul said, "There is a distinct movement in the country to make IT a citizen
centric tool, and we are proud to be part of the initiative". HCL envisages
a substantial demand for the data centre solutions emerging in India after the
government announced an investment of 2.9 billion USD in IT infrastructure in
its tenth five-year plan.
The HCL Infosystems deal signed with ONGC comprises of supplying, installation and
up-gradation of Sun Systems in the ERP Data Centre for projects Shramik and Kuber,
which are HR and Finance packages respectively. It would involve developing, testing
and deploying Sun servers and storage systems in production environment of HR
systems on SAP R/3 version 4.6 B.
About HCL Infosystems
HCL Infosystems, India's premier information enabling
and integration company, offers its customers technology solutions across multiple
platforms. It has partnerships with some leading global player like Intel, Toshiba,
HP, Ericsson, Microsoft, Nokia and Sun Microsystems among others.
HCL Infosystems has direct customer services centre at more than 167 locations across
the country and two ISO 9001 certified state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities.
With a mission to provide world-class information technology solutions and services
to enable its customers to serve their customers better, HCL Infosystems is forever
setting new standards of IT in the country.
