This indigenous PC manufacturing company, in addition to retaining its leadership position of being the number one Indian PC player, has expanded the scope of its operations considerably in distribution arena. The company achieved revenue target of Rs 11,455 crore and registered 47 percent growth last fiscal

The year 2005-06 has brought roaring success to this homegrown PC manufacturing and system integration company - HCL Infosystems. The company completed 30 years of its operations in August this year with consolidated revenue crossing Rs 10,000 crore. Maintaining its leadership position of being the number one Indian PC player, HCL Infosystems during the last financial year bagged several lucrative contracts from industry verticals ranging from education, banking, insurance and leading corporate. Last year HCL was selected by IDBI Ltd, Mumbai to provide the entire ICT infrastructure for 100 plus new retail branches. HCL Infosystems was looking after total computing, networking and office automation needs of IDBI retail branches. 

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Chairman & CEO: Ajai Chowdhry
Highlights HCL Infosystems completed 30 years of its operations in August with consolidated revenue crossing Rs 10,000 crore Received Avaya Global Connect customer responsiveness award Bagged IDBI contract involving complete ICT deployment in 100 plus retail branches of the company

Along with this HCL executed a large-scale statewide order for deployment of PCs and servers both in rural and urban schools across the state of Punjab.

Doing a balancing act on both distribution as well as system integration fronts during last fiscal HCL has executed several projects pertaining to IT infrastructure deployment. Recently HCL has commissioned country's largest Internet backbone network for one of the leading telecom players. The company has also deployed high-performance computing configurations for leading research labs in the country.

Apart from system integration projects and distribution of other brands, last year saw HCL adding to its fold own-branded products targeted at specific user segments. In line with this HCL became the first indigenous manufacturer of segment specific laptops christened Leaptops. The company also added next generation rural PCs to its rich bouquet of IT solutions. Called 'HCL Uday', these PCs are equipped with several unique features including one-touch data recovery and power backup through car battery. Apart from usual business HCL is also getting its act together to promote PC and broadband among the masses and to plug into the gaps of requirement and affordability. Last year HCL in collaboration with MTNL introduced easy finance schemes (EMI schemes) to make PC accessible to a larger spectrum of people.  

On the new-product-addition front, HCL last year introduced a whole new range of notebooks from Toshiba. HCL Infosystems also entered into an alliance with Toshiba and launched India's first exclusive stores touted as 'Shop Toshiba' to showcase an extensive range of mobile computing products for the home, SOHO and SMB customers. HCL also announced its technological alliance with Bull, a leading European company, to launch HCL scalable enterprise class servers on open architecture. This tie-up marked HCL's foray into the high-end enterprise server segment. Another major development on tie-up front was HCL entering into distribution-cum-service support agreement with Apple computers for marketing its iPods in the country.

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