HCL Unveils Strategic Initiative to Accelerate IoT Adoption

HCL Unveils Strategic Initiative to Accelerate IoT Adoption

NOIDA, India, September 16, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

    HCL and IBM to set up an Incubation Center to Jointly Develop IoT Solutions

    HCL Technologies, a global IT services provider, today announced that it is
collaborating with IBM to jointly develop Internet of Things (IoT) solutions to help
customers on their IoT journey.

    Together HCL and IBM will initially focus on specific verticals including Industrial &
Manufacturing and Smart Facilities to co-develop innovative solutions around 'Connected
Products and Operations' such as remote monitoring, smart inventory management, smart
building & facilities management. The two companies will also set up an Incubation Center
at Noida, India to develop these solutions for the chosen industries.

    The collaboration combines HCL Technologies' rich heritage in Engineering R&D Services,
global systems integration expertise supported with strong infrastructure services, along
with IBM's strength in enterprise asset management, cloud and analytics. Through their
joint efforts, the two companies will enable seamless integration of device, connectivity,
data platform and analytics for organizations across the world to address some of the most
complex enterprise and industrial IoT challenges.

    "Building an extensive ecosystem around the Internet of Things, is imperative to the
success of all complex Internet of Things client solutions," said Chris O'Connor, General
Manager of Offerings, Internet of Things, IBM. "Combining HCL's IoT design capabilities in
hardware and platforms with IBM IoT Foundation platform, the result is a capability that
generates new value across every segment we are targeting."

    "The intersection of employees, data and technology-enabled intelligent machines is
creating fundamental shifts in enterprise business models, leading to not only increased
productivity and efficiency but also opening a plethora of new revenue opportunities for
companies," said Sukamal Banerjee, Executive Vice President, Engineering & R&D Services,
and Head of IoT Business HCL Technologies. "Our partnership with IBM will provide
replicable use cases and POCs for companies and enable accelerated adoption of IoT within
and across industries."

    HCL's Internet of Things (IoT) Business helps companies accelerate their journey
towards IoT adoption and achieving significant efficiency from existing assets, new
product and services offering for the market. HCL helps companies to Define, Build and Run
their IoT technology and business roadmaps as a trusted long term partner.

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        For more information, please contact:- 
        Kunal Takalkar 
        Corporate Communications 
        Kunal.takalkar@hcl.com 
        +91 981077 3217 

     

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