NEW DELHI, INDIA: HCL Technologies, a provider in global IT services, recently announced that UTi Worldwide Inc., a non-asset-based supply chain services and solutions company, has selected HCL as its strategic global partner.

This expanded partnership will help UTi Worldwide eliminate redundancies, reduce costs, and improve client services, said a press release.

HCL has been selected by UTi Worldwide to provide services for IT application, infrastructure operations and management in order to improve technology-enabled services and solutions, it added.

UTi Worldwide selected HCL to provide services for IT application and infrastructure operations and management in order to improve technology-enabled services and solutions, build a fault tolerant platform for next generation systems, and free UTi’s internal talent to focus on clients and not technology, it added.

Expressing his excitement over HCL being selected by UTi Worldwide, Sandeep Kishore, senior vice president, HCL said, “We will be working with them (UTi Worldwide) across applications and infrastructure and will leverage our transportation and logistics domain experience to deliver enhanced value for an effective IT and business alignment.”

The deal aims to assist UTi Worldwide in reducing overall IT costs for legacy application and infrastructure support, while deploying a single instance, multi-lingual Global service desk supporting 9 languages including English and preparing for their transition to a single, global, enterprise software solution.

HCL would support operations for more than 250 applications and tools, and an infrastructure spanning more than 60 countries.

“HCL has built a solid reputation of providing industry-leading IT application and infrastructure services. Given their commitment to the transportation and logistics industry, willingness to invest in our success, and unwavering commitment to excellence, HCL was the right choice for UTi,” said Ron Glickman, senior vice president and CIO, UTi Worldwide