BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEMS
(INTERIM REPORT SUBMISS ION)

TITLE OF THE PROJECT

Study HCL as an Information System vendor and analyze how they manage business partners and alliances in the IS projects

GROUP 10 | SECTI ON C Ajinkya Lokare | PGP/16/121 Bahniman Rynjah | PGP/16/137 Bala Meenakshi | PGP/16/138 Saumya Khetarpal | PGP/16/163 Shyam Prasath B | PGP/16/171

SCOPE OF THE PROJECT In HCL technologies, the partners play a big role to drive ecosystem based innovation. They offer world class solutions across different industry verticals which are further strengthened by partnerships with global technology vendors/suppliers, customers and niche solution providers. Their partner ecosystem consists of close to 100 partners in various technology areas, consisting of go-to-market alliances, specialist partners for niche technologies and teaming partnerships for specific customers. The aim of this project is to critically analyze HCL, specifically as an information system vendor and study its partnership with well known international/national companies like SAP, Oracle and IBM to name a few and to perform a stakeholder analysis for understanding the synergies of the partnerships and the future of HCL in this particular segment.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION (PRIM ARY/SECONDARY): Primary: Employees/ ex employees of SAP, HCL, IBM and Oracle
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Website: www.hcltech.com Annual reports and other project description as documented by the organization Market reports, white papers and case studies

INITIAL OBSE RVATION: HCL’s core competency involved in providing customers with IT and IT related infrastructure services. With a robust global delivery network across the globe, the scale of Infrastructure operations involves centralized management of globally distributed assets of over $1 million devices across 5 continents; resolving over 10 million helpdesk