HCL Tech Q1 FY23 Investor Release
HCL Tech Q1 FY23 Investor Release
INVESTOR RELEASE
Noida, India, July 12th, 2022
Q1 FY’23 RESULTS
Revenue at US$ 3,025 mn; up 1.1% QoQ & up 11.2% YoY
Revenue up 2.7% QoQ & up 15.6% YoY in Constant Currency
Services Revenue (ITBS and ERS) up 2.3% QoQ & up 19.0% YoY in Constant Currency
EBITDA margin at 21.2%; EBIT margin at 17.0%
Net Income at US$ 424 mn (Net Income margin at 14.0%) down 10.7% QoQ & down 2.5% YoY
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Financial Highlights 2
Corporate Overview 4
Performance Trends 5
Financials in US$ 15
Revenue Analysis 19
Client Metrics 21
Headcount 21
Financials in ₹ 22
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Growth
Particulars Q1 FY’23 Margin%
QoQ YoY
(Amount in ₹ Crores)
Growth
Particulars Q1 FY’23 Margin%
QoQ YoY
Segment-wise Highlights
(Amount in US $ Million)
Engineering and R&D Services (B) 503 16.6% 18.7% 3.7% 23.0%
1. In view of certain internal reorganization, revenue relating to certain software products internally developed and earlier managed by IT
and Business Services, are being reported in Products & Platforms segment. Prior period figures have also been restated.
2. Total revenue is after adjusting inter-segment revenue of $13M relating to products and services of P&P Division used by Services
business in rendering services to their customers.
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9. The company has declared a dividend of ₹ 10/-, 78th consecutive quarter of dividend pay-out.
dividend of ₹ 10 /- per share for Q3, being 76th consecutive quarter of dividend pay-out.
FY 2023 Guidance
Revenue expected to grow between 12% to 14% in constant currency.
EBIT margin expected to be between 18% to 20%.
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“As technology becomes central to lives and businesses, HCL is accelerating the digital transformation journeys of
its clients. We continue to pursue our growth strategy with a sense of purpose and responsibility toward our
stakeholders and communities.”, said Roshni Nadar Malhotra, Chairperson, HCL Technologies Ltd.
“We have started FY’23 on a strong note with an overall growth of 2.7% QoQ and 15.6% YoY in Constant Currency.
Our services business continues to have robust growth momentum, growing at 2.3% QoQ and 19.0% YoY in
constant currency, driven by our digital engineering and digital application services with cloud adoption being a
horizontal theme across all services and verticals”, said C Vijayakumar, CEO & Managing Director, HCL
Technologies Ltd. “Our new bookings grew 23.4% YoY supported by a good mix of large and mid sized deals
and our pipeline remains near record high. Our operating margin came in at 17.0%. We have put in place the right
measures that will improve our profitability going forward.”, he added.
“The key highlight of the quarter is the stellar growth in Services at 19% YoY in CC. Products & Platforms was
1.4% up YoY in CC, excluding the divested/discontinued business. Our cash generation continues to be robust at
Operating Cash Flow (OCF) of US$ 2,013 Mn and Free Cash Flow (FCF) of US$ 1,762 Mn, on LTM basis, with
OCF /NI at 112%. The board has approved a dividend on INR 10 per share in accordance with our Capital Allocation
Policy.”, said Prateek Aggarwal, Chief Financial Officer, HCL Technologies Ltd.
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2,768 2,704
11,786 2,549
10,539
In US$ Mn
In US$ Mn
JUN'18 JUN'19 JUN'20 JUN'21 JUN'22 JUN'18 JUN'19 JUN'20 JUN'21 JUN'22
EBIT EBITDA
1,796
50.06
1,619
1,554 43.33
In US$ Mn
42.08
In ₹
JUN'18 JUN'19 JUN'20 JUN'21 JUN'22 JUN'18 JUN'19 JUN'20 JUN'21 JUN'22
2,423
2,295
In US$ Mn
2,013
1,796
1,619 1,554
1,402
1,229
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QoQ YoY
QoQ YoY
Telecommunications, Media,
4.3% 29.2%
Publishing & Entertainment
Note:
# Public Services include Oil & Gas, Energy & Utilities, Travel - Transport - Logistics and Government.
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Business Highlights
• HCL Technologies won 16 large services and products deals across diverse industry verticals like life sciences
and healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and financial services.
• HCL Technologies acquired Confinale AG, a Switzerland-based digital banking and wealth management
consulting specialist, and Avaloq Premium Implementation Partner. Through this strategic acquisition, HCL
will enhance its footprint in the global wealth management market with emphasis on Avaloq consulting,
implementation, and management capabilities.
• HCL Technologies opened a global delivery center in Vancouver, Canada. The new facility will have a
Customer Experience Center dedicated to developing futuristic digital technologies and next-generation
products and solutions for HCL Technologies' global customers.
• HCL Technologies announced the acquisition of Quest Informatics Private Limited - an aftermarket, Industry
4.0, and IoT company, in an all-cash deal. The acquisition will create synergies and enable meaningful
engagements with clients in the end-to-end digital aftermarket space.
• HCL Technologies won the Microsoft Partner of the Year Award 2022 for Healthcare and Life Sciences (global
winner), UK Microsoft Partner of the Year Award 2022 (country winner) and the Microsoft Supplier Prestige
Award 2022 for Showstopper of the Year; Amplifying Accessibility. The Company was accorded the honors
for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementing customer solutions based on Microsoft
technology.
• HCL Technologies launched its first comprehensive sustainability-focused solution, Net-Zero Intelligent
Operations (NIO). NIO is a cloud-agnostic, scalable solution that enables enterprises to monitor, normalize,
and reduce energy consumption and GHG emissions in real-time. This helps enterprises optimize the energy
intensity of assets and processes. It also enables calculation, reporting and identifying emission optimization
potential for workspaces and shop floors. The solution won the Cisco Global Digital Sustainability Challenge
for the EMEAR (Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Russia) region.
• With an aim to mitigate its climate impact through integrated sustainability initiatives, HCL Technologies signed
The Climate Pledge - a commitment to being net-zero carbon by 2040, 10 years ahead of The Paris
Agreement. The Company has also received validation from the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) for
its targets aligned to the 1.5°C pathway. HCL is now formally a supporter of the Task Force on Climate-related
Financial Disclosures (TCFD).
• HCL Technologies developed a Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) to illustrate the organization’s
commitment to reconciliation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia. The inaugural
RAP, officially accredited by Reconciliation Australia, outlines HCL’s formal commitment to building
relationships, respect and trust.
• As a long-standing strategic partner of the World Economic Forum (WEF), HCL Technologies was an active
participant at the WEF Annual Meeting 2022 in Davos, Switzerland. The HCL Technologies delegation was at
the forefront of many critical conversations in the official agenda of the Annual Meeting and contributed to
important discussions around themes including ESG and tech innovation.
• Underscoring its culture of ideapreneurship and innovation, HCL Technologies filed 15 patents, of which five
were granted in the areas of software development, artificial intelligence, machine learning, next-generation
technologies, and platforms including IoT, automation, and data analytics.
• HCL’s Value Portal, a unique grassroots innovation platform that enables employees to contribute ideas and
create value for HCL Technologies and its clients, delivered customer value worth $216 M+ through 1300+
implementations.
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• One of the largest healthcare services providers in the U.S. selected HCL Technologies as its strategic
technology partner in a multi-year engagement to manage end-to-end technology operations. As part of the
deal, HCL will help transform the client’s workplace and data center landscape, kickstart its cloud journey, and
modernize legacy compute, storage, and backup environment. These technology initiatives will help the client
reduce its total cost of ownership and empower innovation and growth in the organization.
• A Europe-based health and bioscience company signed an integrated IT-led business transformation deal with
HCL Technologies. As part of the engagement, HCL will help the client transition to a product-based IT
operating model, underpinned by a cloud-first strategy and next-generation security practices. HCL will apply
its Fenix 2.0 digital execution framework to drive best practices and accelerate transformation at scale across
the client’s business units and product lines.
• A large global European bank chose HCL Technologies for cloud transformation and hybrid cloud operations.
HCL will be providing a stable hybrid platform and also supporting migration of a large Oracle footprint onto
Exadata cloud.
• A leading global life sciences company based out of Europe extended its relationship with HCL Technologies
to enable end-to-end security operations for the entire digital, IT and OT landscape. HCL will secure the
dynamic posture of the client and patient data that’s crucial for discovering and manufacturing new medicines.
• A Europe-based global automobile maker selected HCL Technologies as its largest IT services partner. The
client expanded its engagement with HCL for executing the next phase of their digital transformation that
includes setting up next-generation intelligent automation platform and an experience centric end-user support
service to cover its global scale of business operations. Additionally, HCL will support the client with automotive
manufacturing & logistics, online engineering related technology and domain competencies.
• The North American subsidiary of a leading global automobile and power equipment manufacturer selected
HCL Technologies to manage its digital workplace services. As part of this multi-year engagement, HCL will
deliver unified customer experience and manage service desk, field support services and asset lifecycle
management.
Product Deals
• A large Europe-based technology and IT services provider signed a multi-year, multi-product enterprise
agreement with HCL Technologies to continue providing high quality IT support. The engagement covers the
whole range of HCL Software products including Domino, Sametime, Connections, Unica , Secure DevOps
tools, Volt MX, BigFix and Digital Experience portal.
• A major European government committed to a multi-year engagement with HCL Technologies for their data
center that supports multiple business processes and internal communication needs, by leveraging the HCL
DX Portal. The agreement reiterates the Government’s commitment to using highly reliable digital experience
technology from HCL.
• A U.S.-based global IT services giant renewed its commitment to continue running its mission critical
applications on Domino. The IT firm also expanded use of HCL‘s secure development AppScan Technology.
• A U.K.-based global banking giant renewed and expanded their relationship with HCL Technologies for
maintaining critical applications supporting business workflows and support systems.
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• A U.S.-based bank has selected HCL Technologies to manage their technical environment using the HCL
Digital Experience Manager. HCL DX platform is instrumental in providing secure integrations to third party
systems that allows the bank to offer customers secure and authenticated access to their financial accounts,
loans, and investments.
• A Europe-based public sector company selected HCL Technologies. As part of this engagement HCL will
engage at every level of decision to pivot and expand from the existing DX footprint, growing with a CX
overarching strategy, growing the actual DX usage, plus including Discover and Actian.
• A Europe-based global consulting and audit company signed a multi-year engagement with HCL Technologies
for BigFix suite of products. The client is using the suite as part of their vulnerability management program to
improve operational efficiency and regulatory compliance.
• HCL Technologies launched its ‘All Access Media Marketplace’ platform to streamline content creation and
deliver seamless user experience. The platform will enable content creators to build workflows by leveraging
the MovieLabs Visual Language Project in a Workflow Creator™; linking these icons and connectors to media
service providers’ digital storefronts and acquire quotes from them.
• HCL Technologies launched HCL SmartPaaS to simplify and standardize adoption and consumption of cloud
native PaaS services by Enterprise customers.
• HCL Technologies launched its remote patient monitoring (RPM) solution to allow healthcare providers to
support patients’ health between in-person visits. It is a one-stop solution for providers and aims to facilitate
the frictionless deployment of the RPM program at scale and speed.
• In partnership with Google, HCL Technologies has developed an end-to-end automation solution to enable
real-time integration of billing and claims, reducing transaction time from days to seconds and easing the
administrative burden on providers.
• DRYiCE Software announced the GA (General Availability) launch of DRYiCE IntelliOps (IntelliOps), a solution
offering addressing the full-stack of AIOps and business flow observability needs of an enterprise.
• HCL Technologies launched a world-class digital engagement platform, X, to power digital engagement for
global consumer brands. X unites multiple digital touchpoints, including websites, mobile apps and social
media feeds to create a single view of the consumer. This helps marketers access data-driven insights that
enable them to optimize customer experience and unlock the potential of their brand.
• HCL Technologies released version 1.2 of AEX (AI-Driven and Automation-Powered Employee Experience),
which now offers a host of value-driving capabilities including BigFix adapter for software deployment,
advanced reporting capabilities, user live chat queue waiting number and new user interface.
TALENT MANAGEMENT
HCL Technologies believes in a culture that fosters grassroots innovation and is committed to providing its people
with an equitable, safe and inclusive work environment. HCL focuses on talent attraction, growth, and retention to
ensure a unified experience across the enterprise.
As of June 30, 2022, the total global employee headcount was 210,966. Net hiring was 2,089 for the quarter.
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• HCL Technologies and Amazon Web Services launched CloudSMART for AWS Continuous Modernization
Experience to help enterprises worldwide accelerate their cloud business transformation journey. This brings
together the best of the HCL AWS Ecosystem’s accelerated approach, frameworks and best practices to drive
business transformation through modern ways of working and rapid delivery.
• HCL AWS Ecosystem listed ADvantage-Code (ADC) as a solution consulting offer on AWS. ADC is HCL's
approach to elevating productivity in cloud-native application development via automation. By utilizing the ADC
framework, developers can perform model-driven code-generation, enable the DevOps pipelines, and deploy
code on the cloud.
• HCL Technologies has been onboarded as a service delivery partner for Amazon RedShift, having
demonstrated technical proficiency and customer success on the platform. HCL’s partnership with AWS allows
it to offer scalable, cost-effective, secure, and high-performing enterprise data warehouse solutions to global
clients across industries.
• HCL AWS listed intelligent asset tracking and management (IATM) as a solution consulting offer on AWS.
IATM is an IoT-enabled track and trace solution to digitally transform asset life cycle management needs of
enterprises. IATM leverages a range of AWS services like AWS IoT Core, AWS IoT Analytics, and Amazon
RDS.
• HCL Technologies launched the “Envisioning Retail Transformation” solution for Microsoft Cloud for Retail.
• HCL Technologies joined MISA (Microsoft Intelligent Security Association), an ecosystem of independent
software vendors and managed security service providers who have integrated their solutions to better defend
against a world of increasing threats.
• HCL Technologies launched its Kubernetes Migration Platform (KMP) to help organizations accelerate
application modernization toward Hybrid Multi Cloud on Red Hat OpenShift.
• HCL Technologies went live with “RISE with SAP” to modernize its enterprise digital landscape.
• HCL Technologies inaugurated a new SAP Offshore Development Center (ODC) in Bengaluru, India. This
dedicated ODC will help enterprises harness the cloud transformation experience of HCL and SAP and
accelerate their intelligent enterprise journeys.
• HCL Technologies and SAP have collaborated to accelerate Industry 4.0-led Smart IoT offerings. HCL
Technologies will package relevant SAP software with services and hardware that can speed up and simplify
the fragmented and complicated solution stack that businesses face when driving Industry 4.0 transformations.
• HCL has adopted an Intelligent data migration platform from Syniti to help develop industry-specific data
solutions and deliver higher quality SAP S/4HANA transformations.
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Digital Business:
• HCL Technologies Positioned as a Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SAP Implementation Services
2022 Vendor Assessment (Doc #US48395822,June 2022).
• HCL Technologies positioned as a Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Adobe Experience Cloud
Professional Services 2022 Vendor Assessment (Doc #US47542221,June 2022).
• HCL Technologies Positioned as Leader in Everest Group’s Healthcare Payer Digital Services PEAK Matrix®
Assessment 2022.
• HCL Technologies Positioned as a Leader in Avasant Salesforce Services 2022 RadarView™.
• HCL Technologies Positioned as a Leader in Avasant Banking Digital Services 2022–2023 RadarView™.
• HCL Technologies Positioned as a Leader in Avasant Retail Digital Services 2022–2023 RadarView™.
• HCL Technologies Positioned as a Leader in Avasant Travel and Hospitality Digital Services 2022–2023
RadarView™.
Digital Foundation:
• HCL Technologies positioned as a Leader in 2022 Gartner® Magic QuadrantTM for Managed Mobility
Services, Global*.
• HCL Technologies positioned as a Leader in 2022 Gartner® Magic QuadrantTM for Data Center Outsourcing
and Hybrid Infrastructure Managed Services, Worldwide*.
• HCL Technologies Positioned as Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud Professional Services 2022
Vendor Assessment (Doc #US48061322,April 2022).
• HCL Technologies positioned as a Leader in Avasant Risk and Compliance Services 2022 RadarView™.
• HCL Technologies Positioned as a Leader in Avasant Multisourcing Service Integration 2021–2022
RadarView™.
• HCL Technologies Positioned as a Leader in Avasant Applied Ai And Advanced Analytics Services 2022
RadarView™.
• HCL Technologies Positioned as a Leader in Avasant Internet Of Things Services 2022 RadarView™.
• HCL Technologies Positioned as a Leader in Avasant Cybersecurity Services 2022 RadarView™.
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Digital Operations:
• HCL Technologies Positioned as a Leader in Everest Group’s Life Sciences Operations PEAK Matrix®
Assessment 2022.
• HCL Technologies Positioned as a Leader in Avasant Banking Process Transformation 2022 RadarView™.
• HCL Technologies Positioned as a Leader in ISG Provider Lens™ Retail Services - Platform Migration
Services - Europe & U.K. 2022.
• HCL Technologies Positioned as a Leader in ISG Provider Lens™ Retail Services - Platform Migration
Services - U.S. 2022.
• IDC Marketscape Names HCL as a Leader Across Multiple Segments of Worldwide Unified Endpoint
Management.
• HCL Technologies Earns High Marks in 2022 Gartner® Peer Insights™ ‘Voice of the Customer’ for Digital
Commerce.
• HCL Software Named in 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing
• HCL Named to Leaders Category in New IDC Marketscape Reports on Worldwide Application Security
Testing, Automated Software Quality.
• HCL Software Named as the Leader in the 2022 SPARK Matrix of the B2C and B2B Digital Commerce
Platforms.
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India
• HCL Samuday: During the quarter gone by, in Hardoi District of Uttar Pradesh, 56,712 consultations were
made through telemedicine centers and mobile health clinics. 3,374 Anganwadi workers trained in malnutrition
management. 14,896 farmers trained in Practices of Agriculture. 1,416,250 kg of waste managed through
composting.1,152 households adopted safe plastic waste handling.
• HCL Uday: During the quarter, the program reached more than 5 lakh+ people (60% females), through
integrated and inclusive community. Covered 6,500+ self-help group (SHG) women. Water harvesting
structures with 92,000 liters capacity were established in Chennai and Madurai, benefiting 3,500+ children.
• Clean Noida: 38,375 households were educated about waste segregation through door-to-door awareness
campaigns and spot guidance; 17,698.93 sq. ft. of walls across the city were beautified to promote cleanliness.
Three ponds were cleaned as part of restoring Noida’s urban water bodies and establishing effective solid and
liquid waste management.
• HCL Harit: During the quarter, 15,000 saplings were planted, two water bodies were rejuvenated, 1,000
beneficiaries were reached through environmental education, and 4,000 animals were treated. The Harit Ghost
Net Campaign – Dive to Retrieve --was launched on Earth Day with a team of 15 experienced and certified
divers who collected and retrieved approximately 300 kgs of abandoned fishing nets.
• My E-Haat: During the quarter, 5,500+ products, were sold by artisans to customers directly and 650 weavers
of the Barabanki district were provided with Artisan Cards. My E-Haat platform has helped weavers from
Varanasi to exhibit their silk products at the Virtual Buyer Seller Meet for textiles of the European Region
organized by the Indian Chamber of Commerce.
• Power of One: 2,500+ on-ground and e-volunteering hours clocked by 1,642 HCLites impacting 15,000+ lives;
commemorating World Blood Donors Day 2022.
• Sports for Change: The program rolled out its competition for the year 2022. The district-level qualifiers saw
massive participation from 6,000+ students of government, schools and communities supported by HCL
Foundation in 30 districts.
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• Disaster Risk Reduction, Response & Management: 17+ sessions were conducted on DRR consultations
and monsoon preparedness. Three days of pre-flood sensitization and awareness sessions were conducted
by WTI in which 80 volunteers and forest officials were sensitized on the do’s and don’ts of animal rescue
during a flood.
Other Geographies
• HCL Technologies has been activating employee donation drives to support communities and people globally
with the help of local partners and NGOs. Donated INR ~5 Cr towards relief efforts, including employee
voluntary contribution and HCL matching contribution.
– Partnered with the European Food Banks Federation and other NGOs to direct donations.
– In the U.S., nearly 1.7 million meals were provided during National Volunteer Month to those in need
through HCL Technologies’ partnership with Feeding America®. This was achieved through employees’
hard work at local food bank events and generous donations.
• HCL Canada partnered with Microsoft Career Connector to increase access to economic opportunities for all.
This program builds bridges for job seekers who are served by local non-profits with hiring employer partners.
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Quarter Ended
Weighted Average
Number Of Shares
30-Jun-21 31-Mar-22 30-Jun-22
1. LTM EPS (diluted) for period ended Jun'21, including the impact of onetime milestone bonus and DTL on Goodwill impact, stands at ₹ 42.08.
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AS ON
Particulars
31-Mar-22 30-Jun-22
Assets
Inventories 21 22
Term Deposits 26 25
Non-Controlling Interests 12 -
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Jun-22
Cash & Cash Equivalents 728
Term Deposits 739
Investment Securities, Available for Sale 782
Total Funds (Gross Cash) 2,249
Jun-22
Borrowings 525
Jun-22
Net Cash 1,724
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Telecommunications, Media,
8.4% 9.0% 9.2%
Publishing & Entertainment
Note: Public Services include Oil & Gas, Energy & Utilities, Travel - Transport - Logistics and Government.
1. In view of certain internal reorganization, revenue relating to certain software products internally developed and earlier managed by IT
and Business Services, are being reported in Products & Platforms segment. Prior period figures have also been restated.
2. Inter-segment revenue of $13M is related to products and services of P&P Division used by Services business in rendering services to
their customers.
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HEADCOUNT
6,023 freshers were added during the quarter ended 30 Jun 2022
*Note: Attrition excludes involuntary attrition and Digital process operations.
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Quarter Ended
Weighted Average
Number Of Shares
30-Jun-21 31-Mar-22 30-Jun-22
1. LTM EPS (diluted) for period ended Jun'21, including the impact of onetime milestone bonus and DTL on Goodwill impact, stands at ₹ 42.08.
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AS ON
Particulars
31-Mar-22 30-Jun-22
Assets
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As a leading global technology company, HCL takes pride in its diversity, social responsibility, sustainability and
education initiatives. For the 12 months ended June 30, 2022, HCL had consolidated revenue of US$ 11.79 billion.
Its nearly 210,966 ideapreneurs operate out of 52 countries. For more information, visit www.hcltech.com
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HCL Technologies Ltd., Technology Hub, SEZ, Plot No. 3A, Sec-126, Noida - 201304, India. www.hcltech.com
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