Company Overview
HCL Technologies (HCLT) is a US $763.8 million Information Technology services company operating worldwide. The company is involved in providing services to a number of Hardware Product companies, Software Product companies and to End-users. HCLT is part of HCL Group, a $2.5 Billion leading Information technology Group in India.
HCL Technologies is a product engineering and services company offering a suite of services targeted at technology vendors, software product companies and medium to large end user organizations. These services are delivered through a vast network of 29 sales and project management offices in 15 countries outside India and 16 state of the art offshore development centres based in India. Our clientele includes over 490 prestigious organisations in the world, including 66 Fortune 500 companies. Company Objective
HCLT Tech focuses on technology as well as R&D outsourcing, addressing customers in key domains such as Consumer, Entertainment, Automotive, Semiconductors, Telecom & Networking, Healthcare, Petrochemicals, and Avionics. With extensive experience in key technologies in the area of System Design, VLSI/ASIC, Embedded SW, and DSP SW, HCL Technologies is in a unique position to offer to its customers a number of strategic advantages in time-to-market, cost, and scalability.
Solution provided
HCLT provides its customers with comprehensive services that go beyond the ordinary in solving all their IT related problems. HCLT offerings provide the widest array of services to its clients. These include Hardware - design, verification and validation, testing, product engineering, embedded systems development, process consulting, mobile technology and applications, networking, CAD/CAM/CAE.
The hardware design capabilities have been built and refined over decades and enriched with specialist partnerships to provide spec to silicon engineering services to OEMs and component manufacturers. Service offerings include ESL Modeling, ASIC/VLSI Design (front and back end), FPGA Design, and Board Design in networking, storage, computer architecture, consumer electronics, medical electronics, automotive and aerospace. Of special interest are the capabilities to handle high complexity (ASIC - 10 million gates, FPGA - 3 million gates, Board - 20 layers with up to 400 MHz clock speed), the achievement of first pass silicon success, rigorous design process that is compliant to industry standards and a rich portfolio of reusable components. Our ESL practice is uniquely positioned to enable LSI customers to model complex SOC and platforms, thus verifying the integration of HW and SW fairly early in the design process.
Target Markets
The primary target markets are North America, Japan, Europe, UK, Asia-Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and India. In terms of business domain HCLT is primarily present in Consumer Electronics, Semiconductor, Telecom, Automotive, Aero, BFSI (Banking Financial Services and Insurance) and Retail.
Business Model
The strategy followed by HCLT can be broadly classified into - Time tested Global delivery model
HCLT has a highly optimised and time-tested Global Delivery Model, whereby significant value is delivered from offshore (with over 80% consolidated revenues being driven from Offshore).
- Alliances & partnerships with end users
A well-defined vertical strategy in place along with a focused customer acquisition strategy has helped HCLT be in a position to provide end-to-end solutions to its target Customers, coupled with flexibility and openness to engage in collaborative partnerships to help both parties realize objectives.
HCLT's Growth Strategy is focused on the following principles:- Invest in growing existing long term relationships with new and value added service offerings.
- Buy companies with complimentary service offerings for our marketplace or enter into Alliances and JV's.
- Build new delivery centres globally like the ones in Singapore, Malaysia, Ireland, USA etc.
- Entrepreneurship Culture encouraging business ideas and thoughts to be spawned within the company and creating them into independent business units like HCLT Infra Division, HCLT BPO.
What is unique about your solution?
HCLT has the different mindset and process rigour that product engineering calls for - the mindset to own release timelines, appreciate market constraints, solve problems, balance trade-offs, visualise impact through the lifecycle and protect the customer's intellectual property. The process rigour to achieve product performance, reliability under varying usage conditions, compliance to regulatory standards that impact market release, traceability and change management is part of the genetic code of HCLT.
The second key differentiator is our relationship management philosophy which strives for and rewards win-win relationships with the customers. To quote an analyst:
As a result of this HCLT has several large ODCs for key customers. HCLT has assumed product development risks on a reward basis with its key customers. The revenue contribution from Top 5 and Top 10 customers, as also the repeat business from existing customers, has been steadily growing over years.
Company History with ARM
How long has the company been working with ARM?
HCLT has been working on ARM technologies for around 5 years now, and is an ATAP partner for 3 years.
ARM technology HCLT supports
HCL Technologies is a design services company and supports all the ARM technologies, i.e. ARM Cores (ARM7, ARM9, ARM10, ARM11), AMBA bus, ARM infrastructure such as the ADK and PrimeCells, ESL models (Armulators, CCM models), the SW tools (ADS, RVD), and the evaluation boards. HCLT provides following services on the ARM platform:- - Modelling and platform integration for ESL design
- RTL Design
- Functional Verification
- SOC Integration
- FPGA and Board
- ASIC backend
- Diagnostic SW, OS, Device drivers
What are the primary benefits you have received from working with ARM?
ARM is the leader in embedded RISC cores market, and specifically in the Consumer domain, ARM has a clear dominance. HCLT is a design services company catering to SOC and OEM products, a vast majority of which are deploying the ARM core and/or the AHB infrastructure. Having expertise on these platforms, owing to the early access to ARM technology, makes HCLT more prepared to successfully service these opportunities.
Specialist area as an ARM partner?
HCLT is an ARM Approved Design Center. We have expertise, know-how, tools and technology to cater to any hardware, software, or embedded system project that uses the ARM core and /or the AMBA bus.
Products that HCLT/ARM technology is being shipped with?
Cell Phones, PDAs, digital still cameras, video cameras, DVD players and photo printers.
HCLT Services in detail
To provide services to a diverse clientele, HCLT is organised along the following horizontals:
Technology led services: HCLT offers a wide range of services like ASIC/VLSI, embedded, CAD, CAM, CAE, PDM/PLM, verification & validation Software & hardware product engineering, testing, maintenance, porting & migration and complete product ownership.
Practice led services: HCLT offers a wide range of services in areas that require strong consulting and implementation-based expertise. These areas are consulting & implementation of SCM, CRM, B2B, Imaging & Workflow Packages & solutions Internet/e-commerce solutions, Network Design & IT Infrastructure management.
Application led services: HCLT offers application services over a vast variety of platforms like NT, UNIX, Linux, IBM mainframe, IBM AS/400 and I-series etc. These include services in the area of development, maintenance, testing, porting/migration and production support.
IT enabled services: HCLT offers these services through its Infrastructure Services Division.
BPO Services Limited: These include Technical Help Desk, Business process outsourcing and Customer contact centre.
Technology Led Services: HCLT's capabilities in the 'product engineering service triad' of hardware, software and mechanical design lets R&D organisations work with a single source that understands all interdependencies for full system engineering. The value proposition includes reduced time to market, expanded product footprint, extended product lifecycle and enhanced product line profitability.
HCLT provides full lifecycle product engineering services, from requirements definition to prototype architecture, development, testing, and technical help desk from L0 onwards, field support, maintenance and upgrading. With select product companies, the service portfolio extends beyond engineering to implementation services.
The characteristics of a market leader in product engineering can all be discerned in HCLT - a system design house with industry presence, process adaptation, size and stability, tools and infrastructure, integrated engineering capabilities, and full product lifecycle participation. |
