HCL inks deal with Great American Insurance

BANGALORE, INDIA: HCL Technologies, a global IT services provider, on Wednesday announced that it has entered into a strategic relationship with Great American Insurance Group (GAIG), a leader in specialty property and casualty insurance, to provide Integrated IT services, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Infrastructure Management Services to GAIG and its affiliates.

“With the global macroeconomic environment creating new challenges, organizations in financial services sectors are focused on innovating IT landscape and operations. The strategic relationship with HCL will support our transformation efforts,” said Piyush Singh, senior vice-president and CIO, GAIG.

“HCL’s deep domain expertise in the insurance industry coupled with its integrated technology, operations and infrastructure service offerings made them a natural partner for us. This new relationship will significantly enhance our capabilities in offshore technology support. Moreover, the strategic relationship, coupled with HCL’s core capabilities, will provide operational and strategic flexibility to GAIG,” he added.