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HCLTech to drive Banco do Brasil's digital transformation with Salesforce

HCL Technologies on Monday announced that Banco do Brasil has selected it to support the bank's digital transformation and customer relationship management (CRM) journey and implementation of Salesforce. HCLTech's partnership with Salesforce will enable Banco do Brasil to 'hyper-personalise' customer relationship and service solutions, generating greater customer satisfaction and engagement within their omnichannel ecosystem, using AI resources, data unification and intelligent guidelines, a release said. Banco do Brasil is one of the largest financial institutions in Latin America. HCLTech however did not divulge financial details of the contract. "Banco do Brasil...through a bidding process, has chosen HCLTech to support the bank's digital transformation and CRM journey and implementation of Salesforce," the release said. HCLTech will create a dedicated team of specialists with CRM experience to implement Salesforce solutions for Banco do Brasil. It will use four Salesforce ...

Salary hikes of major IT companies take a back seat amid weak demand

Accenture for instance will not be providing salary hikes to its employees in India and Sri Lanka this year, except in critical skill areas and where it is legally mandated

Strong momentum for the second half, says HCLTech CEO & MD C Vijayakumar

C Vijayakumar, MD & CEO, HCLTech in a video interview with Shivani Shinde talks about the revenue guidance cut, growth drivers and hiring targets

Q2 results: HCLTech net beats estimates, but FY24 growth forecast cut

The company reported its net new bookings in the quarter at an all-time high of $3.96 billion in total contract value (TCV)

Caution: Campus hiring by Indian IT services giants is in the slow lane

The management of the companies said that excessive hiring in the last few years has meant recalibration of employees as growth dipped

HCLTech Q2FY24 result: Net profit up 9.9% at Rs 3,883 cr; attrition drops

The consolidated revenue for the quarter grew 8.04 per cent y-o-y at Rs 26,672 crore, as compared to Rs 26,296 crore in Q2FY23

HCLTech, Business Finland sign agreement for technology collaboration

Partnership will enable Finnish firms to use Indian company's innovation network

A fifth of entry-level technology jobs may go artificial intelligence way

Experts believe acquiring niche skills can be a smart way to stay relevant in an AI-driven market

64% of tech firms find poor skills as biggest recruitment challenge: Study

Early career training or apprenticeship programmes would help solve problem, it says

HCLTech grants $5 mn under CSR initiative to combat climate in Americas

Scaling up its CSR initiative to address climate issues at the global level, HCLTech on Tuesday announced a grant of USD 5 million over five years for combating climate change and restoring ecosystems and biodiversity across the Americas. For the last eight years, the HCLTech Grant program has been supporting India-based NGOs, and now the same has been scaled for implementation in the Americas, the company said in a statement. Every year, three NGOs with innovative and sustainable projects will receive a grant of USD 1 million. One NGO will receive USD 5,00,000, while two others will receive USD 2,50,000 each. NGOs will be selected through a rigorous screening process, it added. "Through this programme, we aim to accelerate innovation in climate projects and build a sustainable planet. Our ambition is to identify organisations that are truly making an impact at the grassroots and help them scale their unique projects," said Nidhi Pundhir, Vice President, Global CSR, ...

IT sector companies defer hikes, lower increments amid slow growth

Wipro has postponed salary hikes, while Infosys and HCL opt not to implement raises

HCLTech signs professional services deal with Cloud Software Group

A business unit of Cloud Software Group, TIBCO Software provides real-time data for making faster, smarter decisions

HCLTech partners with Amazon Web Services to drive GenAI's global adoption

HCLTech has announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to push the adoption of generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) at the company and by enterprises globally. The collaboration aims to empower enterprises to leverage the power of AWS' advanced GenAI portfolio which includes Amazon CodeWhisperer, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Titan, AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia. Elaborating on the HCLTech-AWS alliance to accelerate GenAI adoption, the release said, "HCLTech intends to use Amazon CodeWhisperer with over 50,000 HCLTech engineers, cloud practitioners and developers to build secure applications and leverage AI responsibly, internally and for clients". The partnership demonstrates a shared commitment to exploring industry solutions leveraging AI advancements. Citing an example, it said HCLTech developed Ziva on AWS, an AI (Artificial Intelligence) bot for the financial services industry. "HCLTech has also been recognised as an ML-powered Amazon Connect launch partner, .

HCLTech announces new digital transformation deal from Cricket Australia

IT services company enable Cricket Australia to deliver immersive digital services across the world

HCLTech signs $2.1 billion managed network services deal with Verizon

HCLTech said it expects this deal to have a positive revenue impact over the next six years beginning in November 2023, with an estimated new total contract value of $2.1 billion over the term

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Verizon Business inks technology deal with HCLTech valued at $2.1 bn

Verizon Business on Thursday announced a strategic global partnership making HCLTech its primary managed network services collaborator in all networking deployments for enterprise customers in a mega deal valued at USD 2.1 billion over six years. In order "to execute the tightly-coordinated balance of responsibilities at enterprise scale", a select group of Verizon Business Global Customer Operations staff will transition to HCLTech, a release said. "HCLTech is pleased to announce the signing of a new mega deal with a Global 100 corporation today. We expect this deal to have a positive revenue impact over the next six years beginning in November 2023 with an estimated new total contract value of USD 2.1 billion over the term," HCLTech said in a separate filing. Meanwhile, the joint release said that the partnership combines Verizon's networking prowess, solutioning, and scale with HCLTech's Managed Service capabilities "to usher in a new era of large-scale wireline service delivery

Verizon Business inks pact with HCLTech for managed network services

On the other hand, Verizon Business will continue to lead all customer acquisition, sales, solutioning, and overall planning and development with its customers

HCLTech announces launch of its global delivery center in Morocco

The launch follows the signing of a MoU between HCLTech and the Government of Morocco in 2022 to invest in the country's technology sector

HCLTech joins Meta, IT ministry programme to help India XR start-ups

Programme helps companies working in augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality