HCL Technologies on Sunday said it has bagged a seven-year IT infrastructure deal from Al Majdouie Group, a conglomerate based in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Al Majdouie serves sectors like automotive, retail, manufacturing and real estate. The operations of the deal will commence after two years of IT implementation and deployment by HCL.
Though the deal value was not disclosed, the company said it is the largest deal for HCL in West Asia both in terms of value and end-to-end services provided. HCL was selected out of four short listed IT services companies for this deal, decided over a span of six to nine months. The others included two Indian and one global IT services firm.
The deal involves HCL to blend its outsourcing strengths in applications and infrastructure capabilities to help Al Majdouie achieve fundamental transformation at the enterprise level. The scope of this engagement includes developing infrastructure, implementing Oracle e-business suite with 70+ modules, managing and running the IT infrastructure. The agreement also includes commissioning and management of Data Centre and Disaster Recovery services. This will be one of the largest projects for HCL to run on the MTaaS platform in West Asia. HCL had opened its regional headquarters in Dubai in February to expand its West Asia footprint.
Talking further about the expansion plans in the region, Kiran Bhagwanani, senior V-P and worldwide head of system integration sales, infrastructure services division, HCL Technologies, said, ?We started emphasising on West Asia in 2007 and today we have centres in six countries of this region. With 200 plus headcount in the West Asia, we see a phenomenal pull in the two segments – enterprise application and infrastructure services.?