COMPANY PROFILE

The 3 decade old enterprise, founded in 1976, is one of India's original IT garage start ups. Its range of offerings span R&D and Technology Services, Enterprise and Applications Consulting, Remote Infrastructure Management, BPO services, IT Hardware, Systems Integration and Distribution of Technology and Telecom products in India. The HCL team comprises 55,000 professionals of diverse nationalities, operating across 18 countries including 360 points of presence in India. HCL has global partnerships with several leading Fortune 1000 firms, including several IT and Technology majors.

The TIME magazine has referred to HCL as an "intellectual clean room where its employees could imagine endless possibilities". The fact is, over the last thirty years that HCL has been operational, the company has stood by its values and core philosophy.

Fueled by the entrepreneurial zeal of its founders, HCL developed the first indigenous microcomputer in 1978, at the same time as Apple. Since then, HCL has had a 3 decade rich history of inventions and innovations. Ever since HCL entered into an alliance in 1970s, partnerships and HCL have been inseparable. Bonds have been forged with partners to co - create value. Strong inorganic growth is a testimony to the spirit of partnerships.

HCL is a leading global Technology and IT Enterprise with annual revenues of US$ 5 billion. The HCL Enterprise comprises two companies listed in India.

HISTORY OF HCL
YEAR HIGHLIGHTS - Foundation of the Company laid 1976 - Introduces microcomputer-based programmable calculators with wide acceptance in the scientific / education community - Launch of the first microcomputer-based commercial computer with a ROM 1977 based Basic interpreter - Initiation of application development in diverse segments such as textiles, sugar, 1978 paper, cement , transport - Formation of Far East Computers Ltd., a pioneer in the Singapore IT market, for 1980 SI (System Integration) solutions - HCL designs and launches Unix- based computers and IBM PC clones 1985 - HCL promotes 3rd party PC applications nationally - Purchase specifications demand the availability of RDBMS products on the supplied solution (Unify, Oracle). HCL arranges for such products to be ported to 1986 its platform. - HCL assists customers to migrate from flat-file based systems to RDBMS

- HCL enters into a joint venture with Hewlett Packard 1991 - There is a vertical segment focus on Telecom, Manufacturing and Financial Services - HCL acquires and executes the first offshore project from IBM Thailand 1994 - HCL sets up core group to define software development methodologies - Sets up the STP ( Software Technology Park ) at Chennai to execute software projects for international customers 1996

- Becomes national integration partner for SAP - Kolkatta and Noida STPs set up 1997 - HCL buys back HP stake in HCL Hewlett Packard 1998 - Chennai and Coimbatore development facilities get ISO 9001 certification - Sets up fully owned subsidiary in Australia - Chennai and Coimbatore development facilities get SEI Level 4 certification 2000 - Bags Award for Top PC Vendor In India - Becomes the 1st IT Company to be recommended for latest version of ISO 9001 : 2000 -Launched Pentium IV PCs at below Rs 40,000 2001 -IDC rated HCL Info systems as No. 1 Desktop PC Company of 2001

-HCL Info systems & Sun Microsystems enters into a Enterprise Distribution Agreement 2002 - Realigns businesses, increasing focus on domestic IT, Communications & Imaging products, solutions & related services - Launched Home PC for Rs. 19,999 - HCL Info systems' Info Structure Services Division received ISO 9001:2000 2003 certification - Launches Infiniti Mobile Desktops on Intel Platform - Launched Infiniti PCs, Workstations & Servers on AMD platform - Enters into partnership with Port Wise to support & distribute security & VPN solutions in India 2004 - Launched RP2 systems to overcome power problem for PC users - Crosses the landmark of $ 1 billion in revenue in just nine months

Network Consultancy & Implementation for Centralized Banking

This is a private sector Bank with more than 350 branches and extension counters spread all across the country. This Bank wanted to set up a world class DATA Center for its Anywhere Banking operations and consolidation exercise. They had chosen HCL Infosystems as its Infrastructure partner. The order involved networking, security, facilities management and integration services beside some products and solutions. HCL Insys developed a complete wide area network solution including design, implementation and integration while connecting their 150 branches, regional offices and Head Office. The Virtual Private Network backbone setup of HCL Infinet is being used with Leased lines from BSNL/Private Telcos as the last mile link with ISDN as backup.

Role of HCL: DATA Center Design Network Design Prepare RFP and BOM to help float tender for Networking Supply, installation, of integration DATA Center of & and testing Network mail & network for DC Security infrastructure & WAN System

Implementation Design and

Implementation

Facilities Mgmt. for Total Network, Data center

Facilities Management at Government Department

A Govt. Dept. was planning for a major IT initiative including VAT implementation and implementation of portal preceded. A prerequisite for all these was Data collection and Data consolidation.

Current situation was that they had Multi-vendor maintenance of IT Infrastructure. They were facing problems of down time of critical IT equipment, multi vendor co-ordination issues, and Consumables supply not timely. At the same time they were also looking at Reduction in Total Cost of Ownership and free Key IT-official from day to day co-ordination issues so that they have time to focus on new initiative. It was decided to award a facility management contract for upkeep of their IT -Infrastructure bound by clear Service Level Agreements with the service provider.

Scope of FM Level 1 Help Desk Maintenance of Equipment Maintenance of PC/ Server/LAN H/W Maintenance of System S/w- Win/NT, Oracle Virus support UPS and Air conditioner Maintenance Vendor Management for Warranty systems System S/W support

Asset Tracking- H/w, Licensed S/w Consumable, Media and Stationery (CMS) as per projection

Data Center Security for a Private Financial Company

A Private Financial Company was setting up an Internet Data Center (IDC) at their Corporate Head Quarters to enable E-Securities trading system for their customers to carry out shares trading over Extranets & Internet. This (IDC) comprised of:

Server Farms of Data Center

Public access servers in Data Center

Internet link to two ISPs

WAN Links to NSE, BSE

WAN Link to their Regional offices

LAN within office

LAN links from their group companies

Extranet VPN

HCL Infosystems Ltd. with vast experience in designing & implementing complex IT solutions has done the following activities - design consulting & implementation for making the above IDC setup of Financial company secure against internal and external threats.

The Scope of Services were:

To design a suitable network security solution for the context described above

To implement the security solution designed above after concurrence from company on the network security design aspect.

To deploy the security and access policies that company has for their operating business environment in order to facilitate their users to use the IT assets of IDC

To test and validate the policies deployed.

The HCL Family

At HCL, people are not just employees but family. So, like an important member of the family should, you get endless freedom to experiment, unlimited empowerment to execute your dreams and the rare opportunity to be an entrepreneur.

HCL Infosystems is the progenitor of the HCL Group and is known as the Entrepreneurial Incubator in the Indian IT industry. We believe in empowering people to help achieve their goals goals that are achieved by the coming together of talent and innovation, powered by ownership and freedom to experiment, leading to tremendous growth and gains for the individual and the organisation. We pride ourselves in being a pioneer in creating the Indian IT Industry, by pioneering the creation of the people for the industry.

Our HR philosophy is beyond HR Practices and Systems, where we are ceaselessly creating the HCL Family, whose DNA is Pride, Passion, Performance and People, with an inexhaustible Spirit of Entrepreneurship.

Who do we look for?

Our objective has always been to acquire quality people and groom them to become entrepreneurial Leaders. HCLites are people who take pride in continually doing better than their best; people with a passion to succeed; people who have a fire within to perform and realize results.People who want to WIN (W Work hard, I- innovate and N-never giver up).

Why HCL?

Ranked Top 3 Best Employer Survey in IDC-DQ Survey 2006

Ranked Best Employer in IDC-DQ Survey 2005 We are one of the few IT companies in India that provide a lifetime comprehensive career plan. At HCL, we look at the strengths of a person and accordingly assign future job roles to match those. People can chart their own career options of Entrepreneur or Manager or Technocrat. HCL provides an open canvas of opportunities for each individual, which is how 90% of our top management is from campus (people who joined us as trainees straight from campus).

Be an Intrapreneur - An organisation with a large number of recruitments from campuses all across India, creating entrepreneurs from and for HCL.

Endless growth opportunities in an open and entrepreneurial environment where your team mates and manager become your best friends.

A company where the diversity of 360+ locations, languages and cultures blend seamlessly into a challenging work ethos of the HCL Culture that fosters excellence, recognising and rewarding performance.

A career with diverse, rewarding & challenging assignments everyday...with the freedom to create, articulate new ideas, collaborate with the sharpest minds and truly realise your potential.

HCL Advantage
HCL Infosystems ( HCLI) draws it's strength from 30 years of experience in handling the ever changing IT scenario , strong customer relationships , ability to provide the cutting edge technology at best-value-for-money and on top of it , an excellent service & support infrastructure.

Today HCL is country's premier information enabling company . It offers one-stop-shop convenience to its diverse customers having an

equally diverse set of requirements. Be it a large multi-location enterprise, or a small/medium enterprise, or a small office or a home, HCLI has a product range, sales & support capability to service the needs of the customer.

Last 30 years apart from knowledge & experience have also given us continuity in relationship with the customers, thereby increasing the customer confidence in us.

Our strengths can be summarized as:

Ability to understand customer's business and offer right technology Long standing relationship with customers Pan India support & service infrastructure Best-vale-for-money offerings Technology Leadership

HCL Infosystems is known to be the harbinger of technology in the country. Right from our inception we have attempted to pioneer the technology introductions in the country either through our R&D or through partnerships with the world technology leaders.

Using our own R&D we have

Created our own UNIX & RDBMS capability (in 80s) developed firewalls for enterprise & personal system security launched our own range of enterprise storage products launched our own range of networking products

We strive to understand the technology from the view of supporting it post installation as well. This is one of the key ingredients that go into our strategic advantage.

HCL Infosystems has to its claim several technology pioneering initiatives. Some of them are:

Country's first DeskTop PC - BusyBee in 1985

Country's first branded home PC - Beanstalk in 1995

Country's first Pentium 4 based PC at sub 40k price point

Country's first Media Center PC

Learn HCL training facility in the city of Hyderabad is spread over a sprawling 16 acres with residential facility to accommodate 165 employees at the same time in training. Equipped with class rooms, labs, canteen, a recreation centre and dedicated faculty with vast experience in the IT industry, we conduct over 25000 man days of internal classroom training every year. Classroom trainings are further complimented through Enable Leadership Enrichment and Development - which provides a comprehensive automated learning tool to each employee through various online learning options. 360 Degree Feedback for a holistic quality improvement and individual development plans. Learn from Leaders who have a three decade rich history of inventions and innovations.

Grow
iPerform, our online Performance Management System

tracks result achieved through daily to weekly to monthly to quarterly review system for Career Planning and Position planning. Mindia TechXperts, a fast-track career growth programme identifies and groom young

engineers for leadership positions in a short period of 18 months. We continue to promote Indian traditions and recognize talent in diverse areas, through he much acclaimed HCL Concert Series - a tribute to excellence in human endeavor. Own Pioneer in IT industry for ESOP started in 80s. Profit Sharing Scheme since 1997 for all employees. HCL One Quarterly Awards Night is a gala celebration every quarter when the HCL family gets together to celebrate achievements of individual and team performances. Bottom up communication channels providing opportunities for employee opinion. HCL Towers Houses for our employees. 80% of our top management today are people who joined straight from campus.

COMPANY ALLIANCE AND PARTNERSHIP

To provide world-class solutions and services to all our customers, we have formed Alliances and Partnerships with leading IT companies worldwide.

HCL Infosystems has alliances with global technology leaders like Intel, AMD, Microsoft, Bull, Toshiba, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Ericsson, NVIDIA, SAP, Scan soft, SCO, EMC, Veritas, Citrix, CISCO, Oracle, Computer Associates, RedHat, Infocus, Duplo, Samsung and Novell.

These alliances on one hand give us access to best technology & products as well enhancing our understanding of the latest in technology. On the other hand they enhance our product portfolio, and enable us to be one stop shop for our customers.