Formerly | Hindustan Computers Limited [1] |
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Company type | Public |
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ISIN | INE860A01027 |
Industry | Information technology Consulting Outsourcing |
Founded | 11 August 1976 [2] |
Founder | Shiv Nadar |
Headquarters | , India |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Roshni Nadar Malhotra ( Chairperson ) Shiv Nadar (Chairman Emeritus & CSO ) [3] C Vijayakumar ( CEO) [4] |
Products | |
Services | Software |
Revenue | ₹111,408 crore (US$13 billion) (2024) |
₹20,967 crore (US$2.5 billion) (2024) | |
₹16,565 crore (US$2.0 billion) (2024) | |
Total assets | ₹99,777 crore (US$12 billion) (2024) |
Total equity | ₹68,271 crore (US$8.2 billion) (2024) |
Owner | Shiv Nadar (60.77%) |
Number of employees | 227,481 (2024) |
Parent | HCL Group |
Website | www |
Footnotes /references Financials as of 31 March 2024 [update] . [5] |
HCL Technologies Limited (d/b/a HCLTech) is an Indian multinational information technology (IT) consulting company headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. Founded by Shiv Nadar, it was spun out in 1991 when HCL entered into the software services business. The company has offices in 59 countries [6] and over 220,000 employees. [7]
In 1976, a group of eight engineers, all former employees of Delhi Cloth & General Mills, led by Shiv Nadar, started a company that would make personal computers. [8] [9] Initially floated as Microcomp Limited, Nadar and his team (which also included Arjun Malhotra, Ajai Chowdhry, D.S. Puri, Yogesh Vaidya and Subhash Arora) started selling teledigital calculators to gather capital for their main product. On 11 August 1976, the company was renamed Hindustan Computers Limited (HCL). [10] HCL Enterprise developed an indigenous microcomputer in 1978, [11] and a RDBMS, networking OS and client-server architecture in 1983. [12] HCL Technologies began as the R&D division of HCL Enterprise. [12]
The company originally was focused on hardware but, via HCL Technologies, software and services became the main focus. [13] [14] On 12 November 1991, HCL Technologies was spun off as a separate unit, [15] being incorporated as HCL Overseas Limited, a provider of software and technology development services. [16]
In 1993, HCL also started providing enterprise IT infrastructure management services, winning an order to establish India's first floorless, electronic stock exchange for NSE. [16] [17]
In July 1994, the company name was changed to HCL Consulting Limited. [16] On 6 October 1999, the company was renamed 'HCL Technologies Limited' for "a better reflection of its activities." [16]
Between 1991 and 1999, the company expanded its software development capacities to US, European and APAC markets. [16]
HCL went public on 10 November 1999, with an issue of 14.2 million shares. [16] By the early-2000s, its wholly-owned subsidiary HCL Comnet had expanded its offerings from VSAT to include network security and IT infrastructure services. [18]
In 2001, HCL formed a joint venture with Deutsche Bank by acquiring a 51% stake in the latter's Indian subsidiary Deutsche Software (later renamed DSL Software). [19] In 2004, HCL bought out the remaining 49% stake in DSL Software, which then became part of HCL's banking technology division. [20]
In 2003, HCL won a contract to develop embedded software for Airbus A340's flight warning system. [21] That same year, HCL sold its entire stake in HCL Perot Systems, a seven-year old IT services company, to joint venture partner Perot Systems for over $105 million. [22]
In 2005, HCL expanded its operations in Northern Ireland. At the 2006 UK Trade and Investment India Business Awards in New Delhi, the then UK Prime Minister Tony Blair announced the expansion. [23]
In 2008, HCL acquired the UK-based consultancy Axon Group for £440 million and merged HCL's enterprise application services (EAS) division into Axon. In the three years following the acquisition, the EAS division's revenue share within HCL increased from 9% to 22%. [24]
In October 2017, IBM and HCL announced a strategic partnership, with the latter taking over the development of IBM Lotus Software's Notes, Domino, Sametime and Verse collaboration tools. [25]
In 2018, US-based Actian was acquired by HCL and Sumeru Equity Partners for $330 million. [26] HCL America acquired the remaining 19.6% stake in Actian for $100.2 million in 2021, [27] making Actian the data & analytics division of HCLSoftware, but keeping it an independent company. [28]
In 2019, HCL Technologies acquired products of IBM including AppScan, BigFix, Commerce, Connections, Digital Experience (Portal and Content Manager), Notes/Domino, and Unica. [29]
In 2021, the company reached $10 billion in revenue. [30] In 2022, HCL Technologies rebranded as HCLTech. [31]
In May 2024, HCLTech announced the acquisition of select assets of Communications Technology Group, a business division of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), for $225 million. [32]
In August 2024, HCLSoftware announced its intent to acquire the French metadata management platform startup Zeenea for €24 million. [33] After the completion of the acquisition, Zeenea is expected to continue operating as an independent unit under Actian, HCLSoftware's data & analytics division. [34]
Acquisition date | Company | Business | Country | References |
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29 October 2001 | Apollo Contact Centre | Business process outsourcing | United Kingdom | [35] |
3 June 2002 | Gulf Computers Inc. | Application development | United States | [16] |
20 September 2004 | DSL Software | Banking software | India | [20] |
13 October 2004 | Shipara Technologies | Product engineering and embedded systems | India | [36] |
17 February 2005 | Aquila Technologies | Engineering software | India | [37] |
20 February 2008 | Capital Stream Inc. | Business process automation | United States | [38] |
16 July 2008 | Liberata Financial Service | Business process outsourcing | United Kingdom | [39] |
25 August 2008 | Control Point Solutions, Inc. | Telecommunications service | United States | [40] |
15 December 2008 | Axon Group | SAP consulting | United Kingdom | [41] |
16 July 2009 | UCS Group's Enterprise Solutions SAP Practice | SAP consulting | South Africa | [42] |
1 April 2016 | Part of Volvo IT | Information technology | Sweden | [43] |
19 October 2015 | Concept to Silicon Systems (C2SiS) | Semiconductors | India | [44] |
29 October 2015 | PowerObjects | CRM consulting | United States | [45] |
2 April 2016 | Geometric Ltd | PLM and engineering services | India | [46] |
17 January 2017 | Butler America Aerospace | Engineering & Design | United States | [47] |
25 April 2017 | Urban Fulfillment Services, LLC | Business process outsourcing | United States | [48] |
5 September 2017 | ETL Factory Limited (Datawave) | Automation | United Kingdom | [49] |
12 April 2018 | Actian | Data analytics | United States | [26] |
27 June 2018 | H&D International Group | IT and engineering services | Germany | [50] |
13 March 2019 | Strong-Bridge Envision | IT consulting | United States | [51] |
9 September 2019 | Sankalp Semiconductor | Technology design services | India | [52] |
21 September 2020 | DWS Ltd | IT services | Australia | [53] |
14 January 2022 | Starschema | Data services | Hungary/United States | [54] |
9 May 2022 | Confinale AG | digital banking and wealth management consulting | Switzerland | [55] |
9 May 2022 | Quest Informatics | Industry 4.0 and internet of things | India | [56] |
13 July 2023 | ASAP Group | Automotive engineering services | Germany | [57] |
23 May 2024 | HPE CTG | Telco solutions | United States | [32] |
9 August 2024 | Zeenea | Data management and analytics | France | [33] |
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A classic startup founded in1976 in an Indian garage by Shiv Nadar, HCL Enterprise flourished in the 1980s – "a golden period" for the company.
Founded in 1976 as one of India's original IT garage startups ...
In spite of these changes, HCL Enterprise entered the 1990s determined to retain its focus on hardware.
HCL Technologies Limited is an Indian multinational IT services company, headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. ... subsidiary of HCL Enterprise. Originally a research and development division of HCL, .. independent .. 1991 .