Apriso Announces Partnership Agreement with HCL Technologies; Leading India Information Technology Firm Becomes Apriso Implementation Partner.LONG BEACH, Calif. & NEW DELHI New Delhi (dĕl`ē), city (1991 pop. 294,149), capital of India and of Delhi state, N central India, on the right bank of the Yamuna River. , India -- Apriso(R) Corporation and HCL Technologies HCL Technologies is India’s 5th largest [2] and a leading global IT Services companies, providing software-led IT solutions, remote infrastructure management services and BPO. (NSE NSE - Network Software Environment: a proprietary CASE framework from Sun Microsystems. :HCLT HCLT High Capacity Lumber Tester .NS) have formed an alliance appointing HCL HCl hydrochloric acid. as an implementation and services partner for Apriso FlexNet(TM) application software. HCL Technologies will be engaged in FlexNet implementation projects both in the Asia-Pacific region and throughout the world on behalf of Apriso as well as HCL customers. Apriso and HCL will jointly focus on the automotive, life sciences and electronics manufacturing This article presents a typical manufacturing process of an electronic assembly. Component manufacturing Components such as resistors, capacitors and integrated circuits are generally made by specialized contractors. & supply services (EMS) industries. The HCL Manufacturing IT Group provides complete lifecycle services, from concept to deployment, in the areas of factory applications such as manufacturing execution and automation systems; enterprise application services See ASP and Web services. such as product data management (PDM (1) (Product Data Management) An information system used to manage the data for a product as it passes from engineering to manufacturing. The data includes plans, geometric models, CAD drawings, images, NC programs as well as all related project data, notes and ), product lifecycle Product lifecycle or product life cycle is the course of a product's sales and profits over time. The five stages of each product lifecycle are product development, introduction, growth, maturity and decline. management (PLM (Product Life cycle Management) A comprehensive information system that coordinates all aspects of a product from initial concept to its eventual retirement. Sometimes called the "digital backbone" of a product, it includes the requirements phase, analysis and design ) supply variability and enterprise integration; and performance applications such as performance dashboards, business analytics, plant maintenance and asset utilization. "Increased outsourcing of manufacturing to Asia will see the need for manufacturing IT applications across the supply chain from sourcing, manufacturing to distribution," said Mr. A. Vasudevan, General Manager for HCL's Manufacturing IT solutions. "The partnership between HCL and Apriso brings together varied strengths in serving the market needs in both Asia-Pacific and the world. In HCL, Apriso has a partner that can deliver complete life cycle services fulfilling needs across the supply chain. In Apriso, HCL has a partner who brings a state of the art Web-services based product -- FlexNet -- with the ability to deliver complete life cycle services through a single integrated platform." "India is a rising powerhouse for manufacturing exports," said Nelson Nones, Apriso's Asia-Pacific Vice President and General Manager. "Our alliance with HCL, one of India's premier information technology houses, allows Apriso to tap this growing market while benefiting from worldwide demand for business process outsourcing Business process outsourcing (BPO) is the contracting of a specific business task, such as payroll, to a third-party service provider. Usually, BPO is implemented as a cost-saving measure for tasks that a company requires but does not depend upon to maintain its position in services where India excels." The strategic alliance with HCL Technologies extends Apriso's international network of FlexNet reseller and implementation partnerships. Other preeminent consulting firms that have partnered with Apriso include Neoris, in Mexico and the Latin American markets, and Toyo Business Engineering in Japan. About HCL HCL is one of the leading, Global, Technology and IT enterprises with annual revenues of around $2.0 billion, with IT Products and Services contributing to revenues of over $1 billion. The 29-year-old group, founded in 1976, is one of India's original technology garage start up companies. Its range of offerings span Product Engineering, Technology and Application Services, BPO BPO Business Process Outsourcing BPO Benevolent & Protective Order (of Elks of the USA) BPO Benzoyl Peroxide BPO Business Process Optimization BPO Broker Price Opinions BPO Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra , Infrastructure Services, IT Hardware, Systems Integration as well as distribution of technology and telecom products. The HCL team comprises 24,000 professionals of diverse nationalities, who operate from over 26 offices across 15 countries. HCL has global partnerships with several leading Fortune 1000 firms, including several IT and Technology majors. About HCL Technologies HCL Technologies is one of India's leading global Technology & IT services companies, providing software- led IT solutions, BPO and infrastructure management services. Making a foray into Verb 1. foray into - enter someone else's territory and take spoils; "The pirates raided the coastal villages regularly" raid encroach upon, intrude on, obtrude upon, invade - to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate; "This new colleague invades my the services domain in 1997-98, HCL Technologies focuses on technology and R&D outsourcing, working with clients in areas at the core of their business. The company leverages an extensive offshore infrastructure and its global network of 26 offices in 15 countries to deliver solutions across select verticals including Banking, Insurance, Retail & Consumer, Aerospace, Automotive, Semiconductors, Telecom and Life Sciences. For the twelve-month period ended 31st December 2004, HCL Technologies along with its subsidiaries had revenues of $664 million and 20,249 employees. For more information, please visit www.hcltech.com. About Apriso Apriso is the pioneer of a new class of enterprise software that for the first time enables global corporations to define, operate, and monitor supply, production and distribution processes in real time, without limits. Apriso's software, known as FlexNet(R), provides such fine-grained visibility and control of both execution processes and key performance indicators Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are financial and non-financial metrics used to quantify objectives to reflect strategic performance of an organization. KPIs are used in Business Intelligence to assess the present state of the business and to prescribe a course of action. that it is an ideal platform for accomplishing the most pressing business initiatives of today: compliance, product genealogy, in-line production sequencing, real-time, RFID-based asset management, lean supply, successive refinement (kaizen This article is about a continual improvement philosophy. For Kaizen ($K), a fantasy currency invented by Kaizen Games, see Priston Tale. “Red tag” redirects here. For designation of damaged structures, see Red-tagged structure. ), six-sigma quality levels, demand-driven supply (the "Dell" model), and the adaptive enterprise. Apriso operates in 9 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific, and its rapidly-growing customer base consists of more than 140 customers and over 400 installations worldwide. For more information, visit the Apriso Web site at www.apriso.com. Forward Looking Statements Certain statements in this release are forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in earnings, our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services including those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration immigration, entrance of a person (an alien) into a new country for the purpose of establishing permanent residence. Motives for immigration, like those for migration generally, are often economic, although religious or political factors may be very important. , our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks, our ability to successfully complete and integrate potential acquisitions, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies/entities in which we have made strategic investments, withdrawal of governmental fiscal incentives, political instability, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, and unauthorized use of our intellectual property and general economic conditions affecting our industry. The company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the company. Editors' Note: All trademarks and registered trademarks are those of their respective companies. Additional background information is available at www.apriso.com. |
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