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Infor, HCL Technologies enter strategic partnership

Leading IT services company with 100 000 employees builds global practice around Infor applications.

By Watt Communications:
Johannesburg, 26 Jun 2015

Infor, the industry cloud company, has announced a strategic partnership with leading global IT services company, HCL Technologies.

This collaboration will help to significantly expand implementation, development and support resources for Infor customers across all geographies through HCL's local operations in more than 30 countries. As part of the alliance, HCL will build a practice specifically to support key Infor products, including Infor M3 and Infor Lawson Enterprise Financial Management, dedicating approximately 500 employees to work exclusively with the Infor ecosystem.

The company's resources and expertise combined with Infor's industry-leading applications will promote faster and more effective responses to market opportunities, serving as a catalyst for growth for both organisations.

"Infor differentiates itself in the market through its user experience, industry-specific functionality and flexible deployment options, all of which will appeal to HCL customers across multiple industries and markets," said Anant Gupta, president and CEO of HCL Technologies. "It is because of these distinctions that HCL is investing in Infor, as we feel its applications present a viable new source of revenue for our business and will help us to deliver greater value for our clients."

As a strategic alliance member of the Infor Partner Network (IPN), Infor and HCL will form integrated development and support teams to enhance implementation and maintenance capabilities and position the companies for additional collaboration in the future. Whether implementing an application in a cloud environment or on-premises, or upgrading an existing system, this partnership will benefit customers by facilitating faster deployments and providing expanded access to experienced consultants that can assist organisations in optimising their use of Infor products.

"This strategic partnership will help Infor accelerate the adoption of our applications; we've shipped over 400 new products and 16 000 enhancements in recent years and our customers are anxious to upgrade to Infor CloudSuite," said Charles Phillips, CEO of Infor. "HCL's deep technical bench and global scale will expand the talent pool around Infor applications and quickly deliver value for our customers."

To learn more about Infor partnerships, please visit www.infor.com/partners.

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Infor

Infor is fundamentally changing the way information is published and consumed in the enterprise, helping 73 000 customers in more than 200 countries and territories improve operations, drive growth, and quickly adapt to changes in business demands. Infor offers deep industry-specific applications and suites, engineered for speed, and with an innovative user experience design that is simple, transparent, and elegant. Infor provides flexible deployment options that give customers a choice to run their businesses in the cloud, on-premises, or both. To learn more about Infor, please visit www.infor.com.

Infor customers include:

* Eighteen of the top 20 aerospace companies;
* Ten of the top 10 hi-tech companies;
* Ten of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies;
* Twenty-one of the 25 largest US healthcare delivery networks;
* Eighteen of the 20 largest US cities;
* Twenty of the top 20 automotive suppliers;
* Seventeen of the top 20 industrial distributors;
* Fifteen of the top 20 global retailers;
* Four of the top five brewers;
* Twenty-one of the top 30 global banks; and
* Six of the top 10 global luxury brands.

HCL Technologies

HCL Technologies is a leading global IT services company working with clients in the areas that impact and redefine the core of their businesses. Since its emergence on global landscape after its IPO in 1999, HCL has focused on 'transformational outsourcing', underlined by innovation and value creation, offering an integrated portfolio of services, including software-led IT solutions, remote infrastructure management, engineering and R&D services and business services. HCL leverages its extensive global offshore infrastructure and network of offices in 31 countries to provide holistic, multi-service delivery in key industry verticals, including financial services, manufacturing, consumer services, public services and healthcare and life sciences. HCL's organisational beliefs of 'employees first, customers second', 'trust, transparency and flexibility', and 'value centricity' empower its 104 184 Ideapreneurs to create real value for customers by delivering a relationship beyond the contract. HCL Technologies, along with its subsidiaries, had consolidated revenues of US$5.8 billion, as of 31 March 2015 (on LTM basis). For more information, please visit www.hcltech.com.

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