HCL Is a Leader Among Global Infrastructure Outsourcing Vendors
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FOR INFRASTRUCTURE & OPERATIONS PROFESSIONALS JANUARY 13, 2015 HCL Is A Leader Among Global Infrastructure Outsourcing Vendors Excerpted From The Forrester Wave™: Global Infrastructure Outsourcing, Q1 2015 by William Martorelli and Wolfgang Benkel with Glenn O’Donnell, Frederic Giron, and Andrew Hewitt HCL IS A LEADER AMONG GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE OUTSOURCING VENDORS HCL Technologies tends to be one of the India- Forrester Wave™: Global Infrastructure Outsourcing, Q1 ’15 centric providers most often encountered in deals Risky Strong Bets Contenders Performers Leaders involving the traditional Strong outsourcing giants, even Accenture HP IBM Go to Forrester.com to though its overall service Capgemini TCS HCL download the Forrester CSC Wave tool for more market presence is not the Wipro GWA detailed product Atos highest among India-centric evaluations, feature Fujitsu T-Systems firms. HCL enjoys a solid comparisons, and customizable rankings. reputation for flexibility, CGI Current HCL, with a Forrester score of 4.08, cost-effectiveness, and offering is a Leader in this Forrester Wave. technological capability, which gives it an extremely strong value proposition. HCL also has a particularly robust set of planned Market presence enhancements. Its relatively Weak0 large investment in strategy Weak Strategy Strong shows its willingness to Source: Forrester Research, Inc. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution prohibited. increase its infrastructure services footprint. HCL is particularly adept at pursuing existing outsourcing customers and transitioning them into the HCL fold. Its vision includes the enterprise workplace of the future, network generation data centers, and zero infrastructure sites. HCL also registered the second highest overall grades for customer satisfaction (GWA and TCS tied for first). See below for more information on HCL’s current offering, strategy, and market presence. Headquarters Forrester Research, Inc., 60 Acorn Park Drive, Cambridge, MA, 02140 USA Tel: +1 617.613.6000 • Fax: +1 617.613.5000 • www.forrester.com FOR INFRASTRUCTURE & OPERATIONS PROFESSIONALS HCL Is A Leader Among Global Infrastructure Outsourcing Vendors 2 HCL Evaluation Overview CURRENT OFFERING Global delivery HCL delivers infra services from 16 countries. Its focus is on achieving high customer model satisfaction. HCL’s delivery centers provide a standardized delivery, globally providing a “single virtualized delivery center” through standard processes based on ITIL v3 framework and standard tooling framework MTaaSTM (managed-tools- as-a-service). HCL approaches customer engagements with various tools, process, and frameworks and IPs like HCL MyCloud, MTaaS (managed-tools-as-a-service), Gold Blue Print, and HCL GBP. HCL sees its advantages in global delivery (global talent, one team, strong senior management commitment for growth of global development model [GDM], usage of HCL tools and processes across all delivery centers), time zone (lower total cost of engagement through productivity gains and minimal turnaround time), and risk mitigation (balancing geopolitical risk with full support from local governments). Global HCL’s global geographic staffing distribution is as follows: geographic • Americas: 15%. staffing • EMEA: 10%. distribution • APAC: 75%. Global client HCL’s global client geographic distribution is as follows: geographic • Americas: 38%. distribution • EMEA: 20%. • APAC: 42%. Standard HCL’s end-to-end IT infrastructure services portfolio covers a spectrum of ITIL- infrastructure compliant service support and service delivery processes in the domains of end service portfolio user computing services, DC services, enterprise network services, security services, application operations, and process and tools. HCL offers customers service with an option of asset light and asset heavy and alternative delivery models like cloud-based services and building and supporting the business-ready infrastructure for supporting SaaS platforms. HCL has partners all across the globe that are chosen through a certified alliance partnership program (CAPP). HCL has a partner framework with alliances or partnerships with product, OEM, technology, or independent software vendors (ISVs) and services companies. Ecosystem HCL’s partner ecosystem targets industry-leading product and/or services participation companies with complementary strengths. Key motivations include provisioning of localized services; access to niche products, platforms, services, and customer base; deployment of technology-focused resource pool enabled by skill exchange programs training and jointly staff labs; access and training on early-stage products (in alpha or beta test phases); and leverage of already proven products and methodologies. © 2015, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited January 13, 2015 FOR INFRASTRUCTURE & OPERATIONS PROFESSIONALS HCL Is A Leader Among Global Infrastructure Outsourcing Vendors 3 HCL Evaluation Overview Service HCL has a defined practice in SIAM with more than 2,000 man years of experience integration and developing frameworks and solutions for tools and process management. HCL management has also developed the processes and frameworks for SIAM in order to bring (SIAM) process efficiencies in a multivendor scenario. In HCL’s vision, service integration capabilities coordinates management of individual services from internal or external service providers to comprise an end-to-end service to the end users such that this service meets business objectives and requirements for performance, quality, and cost. Key responsibilities of HCL’s approach to SIAM function include ITSM process standardization and adoption across all vendors including common workflow policies and workflows, common performance indicators, common governance, division of responsibilities, and rules for process interfaces. Innovation For HCL, innovation is to: • Encourage lateral thinking and spawn innovative ideas — value creation councils, enterprise portal for idea generation, centers of excellence, and vertical solutions groups. • Reduce cycle time for taking viable ideas to market: assessment of viability/ market worthiness, securing management buy-in, streamlining investments, and expediting returns. • HCL has inculcated the culture of “ideapreneurship” within the organization. It is rolled out to customers through the innovation council that forms a core part of HCL’s service delivery organization. The innovation council comprises technology architects, service management experts, business/account teams, and service delivery managers. The innovation council is mandated to generate ideas that bring in savings over and above those contractually committed. • Value Portal framework: Value Portal framework is an enabling structure that facilitates a “value creation culture” from day one of the engagement. Continuous HCL’s continuous improvement program incorporates methodologies like Six Sigma improvement and total quality management for enhancing the support and delivery aspects in managing the infrastructure operations. HCL, as part of its commitment to provide year-on-year productivity improvements, will deploy its continuous improvement framework, which includes the following: • Creating standard operating procedures-based application support processes to shift support from high-cost L2/L3 resources to lower-cost L1 resources who would work in the integrated operations management center. End-to-end business process maps that are linked to IT environment that reduces the time taken to perform impact analysis for any enterprise IT application change. • Expanding the usage of the tooling framework to automate build and release management processes. • Cross-skill personnel in the common technical pool in order to optimize resource utilization in the team. • Applying Lean Six Sigma, and improving the processes. Client HCL’s client feedback score on implementation averaged higher than 4.5. feedback on implementation Client feedback HCL’s client feedback score on account and relationship averaged between 4.0 and on account and 4.5. relationship management © 2015, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited January 13, 2015 FOR INFRASTRUCTURE & OPERATIONS PROFESSIONALS HCL Is A Leader Among Global Infrastructure Outsourcing Vendors 4 HCL Evaluation Overview Client feedback HCL’s client feedback score on service quality averaged between 4.0 and 4.5. on service quality Client feedback HCL’s client feedback score on general satisfaction averaged between 4.0 and 4.5. on general satisfaction STRATEGY Customer value HCL’s overall value proposition is to channel the depth of HCL’s experience, skills, proposition and knowledge in a manner that blends the scale of a global supplier while retaining flexibility and control. HCL is among the most aggressive of the India- centric suppliers in infrastructure outsourcing and has obtained a substantial percentage of its customers by competing with global multinational suppliers. The fact that 40% of its customers have moved over from incumbent multinationals trusting HCL with mission-critical infrastructure today speaks of the customer’s faith in HCL to provide them the best of both worlds. HCL, with its unique employee- first culture, seeks to establish an entrepreneurial culture, facilitating employee-led innovation while establishing a co-sourcing philosophy with its customers. Planned HCL plans to focus its improvements on numerous areas including the so-called enhancements “profile kaleidoscope,” a set of user profile