HCL Tech opens new center in Brazil

NOIDA, INDIA: HCL Technologies Ltd. (HCL), a global IT services provider, today announced the official opening of a new Global IT development center in Sao Leopoldo, Brazil, expanding its global footprint.

The new center compliments HCL’s operations in Sao Paulo and will offer a range of services including enterprise application services, custom applications development and maintenance, and Remote infrastructure management to clients primarily in Latin America, North America and Europe. The company intends to hire over 300 engineers to work at the center by 2012, said a press release.

With this center HCL will service a growing number of HCL clients and prospects in the financial services, insurance, healthcare/pharmaceutical, public sector and manufacturing industries. The plan for the development center was also influenced by the strong, growing economy and rapidly increasing demand forecast for IT services in this region.

According to IDC, spending in IT Services activities in Latin America will be more than $20B in 2009 and will grow to more than $25 billion in 2012. Brazil is the leading country in IT services spending in Latin America, accounting for more than 40 per cent of the overall IT spending in the region.

“Brazil offers the perfect balance of cost savings and talent base that allows HCL to serve clients not only in this fast-growing region, but also in the U.S. and Europe,” said Dr. Shami Khorana, president, HCL America, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of HCL.

“HCL’s operation in Brazil is the first in a series of locations we will establish in Latin America to help HCL provide superior service and delivery to our local and global clients from the geography they desire,” Shami Khorana added.

HCL has already started servicing several new customers in Brazil, including a leading global pharmaceutical major, a global publishing company, a large telecom infrastructure company and a top local retailer and has nearly 100 engineers across Brazil, the release added.