London, UK, April 2007 – HCL Technologies Ltd. (“HCL”), a leading global IT services company, today announced a partnership with SAP in the UK and Ireland. Through this new relationship, the two companies will work together to deliver innovative multi service SAP solutions by integrating SAP with infrastructure & BPO services.

The partnership will enable SAP customers to support ongoing business innovations by sharing and leveraging HCL’s best practice experiences from its 2000+ SAP Professionals throughout various global delivery centres.

"By combining HCL’s rich vertical domain expertise along with ready-to-use tools, accelerators and methodologies, we'll be able to offer SAP customers the services and solutions they need to help capitalise on existing investments and optimise their IT landscape", said Rajeev Sawhney, President - HCL Europe

He continues, “One of HCL’s most successful ventures has been our superior Distributed Delivery Model for SAP applications. The key benefits of the relationship for the customer are a lower total cost of ownership (TCO), a broader mix of skills, and the use of tried and tested tools and methodologies to ease the entire upgrade process. We will leverage this partnership to help SAP customers to build robust solutions with a significant reduction in TCO and derive the benefits they seek.”

HCL has been honoured with the SAP Distinguished Partner Award for two consecutive years (2005 /2006) and has also been designated as Chair for SAP's Partner Advisory Board in Singapore.