HCL BPO joins hands with Ketera Tech

NOIDA, INDIA: HCL Technologies Ltd.-BPO Services and Ketera, a provider in management solutions, today announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance to provide Source-to-Pay services.

Through this partnership with Ketera, HCL BPO would deliver full-scope procurement outsourcing across industry verticals, said a press release.

Ketera provides a complete On Demand Spend Management suite which HCL deploys in its services to maximize efficiencies, reduce costs, and increase productivity for its clients, it added.

Ketera's robust technology platform would power HCL's unique Source-to-Pay services across Spend Management, e-Sourcing, e-procurement and contract management, the release added.

Through this strategic partnership, HCL clients would benefit from Ketera's easily accessible Source-to-Pay applications, while leveraging HCL's wide-range of agile, core-backbone capabilities that would together enhance the procurement services outsourced.

"Ketera creates a source-to-pay loop to identify, capture and sustain bottom–line savings with spend analysis, sourcing, procurement, contract management, invoice management and supplier management," said Stephen Savignano, chairman of the board and chief executive officer, Ketera Technologies, Inc.

He added that innovative Software as a Service (SaaS) based solutions provide a low risk, low cost way to deploy rapidly, eliminating the majority of IT costs or large up front license fees.

"HCL's Source-to-Pay services with Ketera technology platform will help large organizations to strategically outsource and thereby harness the value of industry innovations, while maintaining mission-critical operations in-house,” said S Rajagopal, head – KPO, HCL Technologies Ltd.-BPO Services.

He added that small and medium enterprises could leverage these Source-to-Pay services to create a world-class supply chain and effective information management within an affordable budget.