HCL Celebrates 10 Years of Successful Engagement with Merck & Co.

HCL Technologies, a leading global IT services provider has successfully completed ten years of engagement with Merck & Co, a global healthcare leader. The engagement that started in 2005 is one of the longest running strategic partnerships for HCL globally and includes delivery of whole range of services including transformational software led IT solutions, infrastructure management, business and knowledge process services.

“HCL shares our vision of making a difference to people’s lives by providing leading innovations and solutions for tomorrow,” said Clark Golestani, Executive Vice President and CIO, Merck & Co. “HCL’s commitment and deep IT expertise have been critical in our journey towards a successful technology-enabled enterprise..”

HCL has been a key partner in helping Merck accelerate R&D and cost optimization through integrated application and infrastructure management. HCL continues to work with Merck, leveraging its cross industry expertise in Digital, Mobility and Big Data Analytics to drive business agility and growth. In the Digital Domain, HCL is creating a unique collaborative framework where end-users engage more closely with the design and development team and accelerate time to market.

“We are proud to be associated with Merck & Co. The last 10 years have been a rewarding journey with Merck & Co. It is exciting to see this relationship grow beyond the contract and where we have been able to deliver unique value consistently,” said Sandeep Kishore, Corporate Vice President, Life Sciences Healthcare and Public Services HCL Technologies. “Our relationship with Merck has played a key role in HCL’s evolution as an integrated service provider and leader in Life Sciences and Healthcare space.”

HCL is a dominant Life Sciences player enjoying market leadership position in the Life Sciences and Medical Devices segment for North America. HCL clientele consists of the top global pharmaceutical companies, medical devices companies, health plans, CRO’s and data providers. Equipped with certified technology experts and domain specialists, HCL offers services in critical areas of the life sciences and healthcare eco system such as drug discovery, clinical development, drug safety, regulatory compliance, manufacturing and plant automation, commercial, Healthcare analytics, Population Health Management [PHM], mHealth, member experience management [MEM], fraud, waste and abuse management [FWA].

About HCL Technologies:

HCL Technologies is a leading global IT services company working with clients in the areas that impact and redefine the core of their businesses. Since its emergence on global landscape after its IPO in 1999, HCL has focused on 'transformational outsourcing', underlined by innovation and value creation, offering an integrated portfolio of services including software-led IT solutions, remote infrastructure management, engineering and R&D services and Business services. HCL leverages its extensive global offshore infrastructure and network of offices in 31 countries to provide holistic, multi-service delivery in key industry verticals including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Consumer Services, Public Services and Healthcare & Life sciences. HCL’s organizational beliefs of 'Employees First, Customers Second', ‘Trust, Transparency and Flexibility’, and ‘Value Centricity’ empower its 104,184 Ideapreneurs to create real value for customers by delivering a Relationship Beyond the Contract. HCL Technologies, along with its subsidiaries, had consolidated revenues of US$ 5.8 billion, as on 31st March 2015 (on LTM basis). For more information, please visit www.hcltech.com 

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