Anglo American, one of the world’s largest mining companies and HCL Technologies (HCL), have announced entering into an engagement where HCL will deliver IT services for Anglo American businesses across the globe. As a part of this contract, HCL will transform Anglo American’s end user computing and data center landscape to improve operational efficiency, business agility and the user experience.
The scope of service covers end to end infrastructure services, including data centre and hosting services, email services, service desk, local area network and security management, end user computing and on-site IT services, utilizing hybrid on-premise and cloud delivery models.
Anglo American’s Chief Information Technology Officer and Head of Global Infrastructure, David Heppenstall said, “HCL has been one of the most successful Infrastructure suppliers in the market in recent years, and we have been impressed with their solution and the people we have worked with. We are confident they will become an effective long term partner for Anglo American.”
“This contract reinforces HCL’s focus on developing markets and further cements HCL’s position as the provider of choice for IT Infrastructure Services” commented Ashish Gupta, Senior Vice President and Head EMEA, HCL Technologies ISD. “HCL will create an environment of transformation, innovation and continuous improvement of services that will strengthen Anglo American’s leadership position in the marketplace. This deal is also a testimony of our growing strength as the provider of choice for the Gen 2.0 outsourcing market”, he added.
HCL will leverage its ‘Enterprise of the Future’ framework to continuously upgrade and evolve Anglo American’s IT services and infrastructure for users across multiple locations. This framework will allow Anglo American to evolve IT infrastructure services by utilizing a hybrid on-premise and cloud delivery model along with over time adoption of “as a Service” model into the enterprise.
