HCL Tech bags contract from Brazil retail store

IT firm HCL Technologies today said it has entered into a partnership with Brazil-based Ricardo Electro for supporting infrastructure deployed in more than 200 stores of the company.

The company will be responsible for supporting Oracle E-business and Oracle Retail Systems, HCL Technologies said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange.

HCL's agreement includes support for seven different modules in the Oracle Retail suite and eight different modules in the Oracle E-Business product suite. "From January 2011, the same process will be deployed in other stores of Maquina sales group that apart from Ricardo Electro, thus completing 700 stores across 24 states in Brazil," Maquina Sales Group, which owns the Ricardo Electro Chief Information Officer Vinicius Hamzi said.

 

Maquina sales group currently stands as one of the largest company in Barzil in retail industry, with stores in Southeast, Northeast, and Midwest.