HCL to open delivery center in North Carolina

SUNNYVALE, USA: HCL America, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of India’s global IT services company HCL Technologies Ltd., announced on Tuesday that it will open a U.S. delivery center in Wake County, North Carolina.

The company will invest $3.2 million and hire more than 500 employees over the next five years, thanks in part to a state Job Development Investment Grant awarded to the company, said a press release.

The facility is scheduled to open by the end of 2008.

The delivery center will provide application development and maintenance, IT infrastructure management, help desk support, storage design and architecture services, SAP services, engineering services, and other consulting services for U.S. customers.

"HCL was one of the first Indian firms to open offices in the U.S., and we now have more than 3,000 employees here. The decision to open the North Carolina delivery center reflects our optimism about the US economy and the continued importance of our US clients to our business," stated Shami Khorana, president of HCL America.

"These jobs are a good fit for our economy and critical to the families who will benefit from them," said North Carolina Governor Mike Easley. "We are working with education and workforce training programs to make sure we can deliver employees with IT skills to companies located anywhere in our state."

On August 1, HCL Technologies had announced in its annual earnings that the U.S. geography continues to grow consistently, reporting sales of more than $300 million the last quarter.

The U.S. center opening is part of HCL’s global delivery strategy to offer customers support from various locations around the world, the release said. HCL currently operates delivery centers in India, China, Poland and Ireland.