Vendor Profile Series for R&D/Product Engineering Services
VENDOR PROFILE
HCL Technologies — Vendor Profile Series for R&D/Product Engineering Services
Mukesh Dialani
IDC OPINION
As HCL Technologies likes to put it, product engineering is in its DNA. Since inception of its group operations more than 30 years ago, the company has invested in creating technology products and offering engineering services to its customers. Until recently, its focus was to position itself as a "technology services provider." IDC believes that in order to scale revenue and utilize its assets more productively, the strategy has changed since the past five to six years to include other IT services offering. As a result, engineering and R&D services now contribute to approximately 26% of HCL Technologies' total revenue. IDC has made the following observations: