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HCL Technologies Collaborates with Daon to Provide Comprehensive Identity Assurance Solutions
HCL and Daon Join Forces to Deliver Biometric Solutions for Enhanced Security and Travel Convenience to the Global Air Transportation Sector
SUNNYVALE, California and NOIDA, India, August 12, 2010-- HCL Technologies Ltd. (HCL) (http://www.hcltech.com/), a leading global
IT services provider, today announced a strategic partnership with Daon
(http://daon.com/), a leading provider of biometric identity assurance
software, to help aviation, transportation, government and public sector
clients solve their identity program challenges through innovative
biometric technology solutions.
In the post-9/11 world of stringent international travel requirements and
passport standards, the need for a secure, automated system that incorporates
real-time passenger identification and verification is imminent. Biometric
recognition technology will be an essential component to making this
identification system a reality.
Daon provides the enabling identity assurance technology wherever
authentication is required, delivering identification and verification
software for managing identities in border management environments, civil
identity applications, traveler ID, employee credentialing and access control
solutions. Through this partnership, Daon will leverage HCL's expertise in
innovative biometric technology solutions engineering, deployment, training
and R&D, to provide joint air travel clients with innovative solutions and
service differentiators.
"HCL is committed to helping air travel companies transform their
organizations through the adoption of biometrics, reducing operating costs
and infrastructure changes. Also achieving this by enhancing the operating
efficiency of screening, storage, transport and sorting systems required to
ensure the safe and timely arrival of passenger luggage, as well as by
reducing cost while heightening passenger safety through paperless air
travel," said Amit Gupta, vice president and global head of transportation
vertical at HCL Technologies. "We pride ourselves in partnering with the
world's most advanced solution providers, and this partnership with Daon
represents our continued commitment to delivering transformational, high
value-add industry solutions to the air travel industry."
"Daon is honored to join forces with HCL, a leading global engineering
partner for aerospace and transportation companies," said Daon CEO Tom
Grissen. "We share a joint vision to deliver innovative solutions for
enhanced security and travel convenience to the air transportation sector.
HCL's deep expertise, strategic insight and execution capabilities, coupled
with Daon's proven technologies, will provide comprehensive identity
assurance solutions to transportation organizations worldwide."
About HCL
HCL is a $5 billion leading global Technology and IT Enterprise that
comprises two companies listed in India - HCL Technologies & HCL Infosystems.
Founded in 1976, HCL is one of India's original IT garage start-ups, a
pioneer of modern computing, and a global transformational enterprise today.
Its range of offerings spans Product Engineering, Custom & Package
Applications, BPO, IT Infrastructure Services, IT Hardware, Systems
Integration, and distribution of ICT products across a wide range of focused
industry verticals. The HCL team comprises over 64,000 professionals of
diverse nationalities, who operate from 26 countries including over 500
points of presence in India. HCL has global partnerships with several leading
Fortune 1000 firms, including leading IT and Technology firms. For more
information, please visit http://www.hcl.in
About HCL Technologies
HCL Technologies is a leading global IT services company, working with
clients in the areas that impact and redefine the core of their businesses.
Since its inception into the global landscape after its IPO in 1999, HCL
focuses on 'transformational outsourcing', underlined by innovation and value
creation, and offers integrated portfolio of services including software-led
IT solutions, remote infrastructure management, engineering and R&D services
and BPO. HCL leverages its extensive global offshore infrastructure and
network of offices in 26 countries to provide holistic, multi-service
delivery in key industry verticals including Financial Services,
Manufacturing, Consumer Services, Public Services and Healthcare. HCL takes
pride in its philosophy of 'Employee First' which empowers our 64,557
transformers to create a real value for the customers. HCL Technologies,
along with its subsidiaries, had consolidated revenues of US$ 2.7 billion
(Rs. 12,565 crores), for the year ended on 30th June 2010. For more
information, please visit http://www.hcltech.com
About Daon
Daon is a leading provider of identity assurance software
products focused on meeting the needs of governments and commercial
organizations worldwide. Daon supports customers and system integrators in
building enterprise solutions requiring the highest level of security,
performance, scalability, reliability and privacy. Daon's COTS products are
scalable, flexible and proven in the most challenging real-world environments
and have been selected to secure more than 700 million identities around the
globe. The Daon product suite covers every aspect of identity management from
pre-enrollment and identity proofing to enrollment, multimodal capture,
adjudication, credentialing and provisioning; and provides a technology
agnostic approach which gives leverage to the customer. Daon's offices are
located in Washington DC, New York, Canberra, Singapore, London and Dublin.
For further information, please visit: http://www.daon.com
Forward-looking Statements
Certain statements in this release are forward-looking
statements, which involve a number of risks, uncertainties, assumptions and
other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those
in such forward-looking statements. All statements, other than statements of
historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking
statements, including but not limited to the statements containing the words
'planned,' 'expects,' 'believes,' 'strategy,' 'opportunity,' 'anticipates,'
'hopes' or other similar words. The risks and uncertainties relating to these
statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding
impact of pending regulatory proceedings, fluctuations in earnings, our
ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services, Business
Process Outsourcing and consulting services including those factors which may
affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, customer acceptances of
our services, products and fee structures, our ability to attract and retain
highly skilled professionals, our ability to integrate acquired assets in a
cost effective and timely manner, time and cost overruns on fixed-price,
fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on
immigration, 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, the success of our brand development
efforts, 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, other risks, uncertainties and general economic
conditions affecting our industry. There can be no assurance that the
forward-looking statements made herein will prove to be accurate, and
issuance of such forward-looking statements should not be regarded as a
representation by the Company, or any other person, that the objective and
plans of the Company will be achieved. All forward-looking statements made
herein are based on information presently available to the management of the
Company and 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.
For details, contact:
Kirsten Paragona
HCL Technologies
Phone: +1-857-350-5393
Email: kparagona@hcl.com
Jill Newberry
BluePoint Venture Marketing for HCL Technologies
Phone: +1-781-861-7800
Email: jill@bluepointmktg.com
Cheryl Walker Waldrup
Vice President, Global Marketing
Daon, Inc.
Phone: +1-703-984-4040
Email: Cheryl.waldrup@daon.com
Source: HCL Technologies
For details, contact: Kirsten Paragona, HCL Technologies, Phone: +1-857-350-5393, Email: kparagona@hcl.com ; Jill Newberry, BluePoint Venture Marketing for HCL Technologies, Phone: +1-781-861-7800, Email: jill@bluepointmktg.com ; Cheryl Walker Waldrup, Vice President, Global Marketing, Daon, Inc., Phone: +1-703-984-4040, Email: Cheryl.waldrup@daon.com
HCL Technologies Collaborates with Daon to Provide Comprehensive Identity Assurance Solutions
HCL and Daon Join Forces to Deliver Biometric Solutions for Enhanced Security and Travel Convenience to the Global Air Transportation Sector
SUNNYVALE, California and NOIDA, India, August 12, 2010-- HCL Technologies Ltd. (HCL) (http://www.hcltech.com/), a leading global
IT services provider, today announced a strategic partnership with Daon
(http://daon.com/), a leading provider of biometric identity assurance
software, to help aviation, transportation, government and public sector
clients solve their identity program challenges through innovative
biometric technology solutions.
In the post-9/11 world of stringent international travel requirements and
passport standards, the need for a secure, automated system that incorporates
real-time passenger identification and verification is imminent. Biometric
recognition technology will be an essential component to making this
identification system a reality.
Daon provides the enabling identity assurance technology wherever
authentication is required, delivering identification and verification
software for managing identities in border management environments, civil
identity applications, traveler ID, employee credentialing and access control
solutions. Through this partnership, Daon will leverage HCL's expertise in
innovative biometric technology solutions engineering, deployment, training
and R&D, to provide joint air travel clients with innovative solutions and
service differentiators.
"HCL is committed to helping air travel companies transform their
organizations through the adoption of biometrics, reducing operating costs
and infrastructure changes. Also achieving this by enhancing the operating
efficiency of screening, storage, transport and sorting systems required to
ensure the safe and timely arrival of passenger luggage, as well as by
reducing cost while heightening passenger safety through paperless air
travel," said Amit Gupta, vice president and global head of transportation
vertical at HCL Technologies. "We pride ourselves in partnering with the
world's most advanced solution providers, and this partnership with Daon
represents our continued commitment to delivering transformational, high
value-add industry solutions to the air travel industry."
"Daon is honored to join forces with HCL, a leading global engineering
partner for aerospace and transportation companies," said Daon CEO Tom
Grissen. "We share a joint vision to deliver innovative solutions for
enhanced security and travel convenience to the air transportation sector.
HCL's deep expertise, strategic insight and execution capabilities, coupled
with Daon's proven technologies, will provide comprehensive identity
assurance solutions to transportation organizations worldwide."
About HCL
HCL is a $5 billion leading global Technology and IT Enterprise that
comprises two companies listed in India - HCL Technologies & HCL Infosystems.
Founded in 1976, HCL is one of India's original IT garage start-ups, a
pioneer of modern computing, and a global transformational enterprise today.
Its range of offerings spans Product Engineering, Custom & Package
Applications, BPO, IT Infrastructure Services, IT Hardware, Systems
Integration, and distribution of ICT products across a wide range of focused
industry verticals. The HCL team comprises over 64,000 professionals of
diverse nationalities, who operate from 26 countries including over 500
points of presence in India. HCL has global partnerships with several leading
Fortune 1000 firms, including leading IT and Technology firms. For more
information, please visit http://www.hcl.in
About HCL Technologies
HCL Technologies is a leading global IT services company, working with
clients in the areas that impact and redefine the core of their businesses.
Since its inception into the global landscape after its IPO in 1999, HCL
focuses on 'transformational outsourcing', underlined by innovation and value
creation, and offers integrated portfolio of services including software-led
IT solutions, remote infrastructure management, engineering and R&D services
and BPO. HCL leverages its extensive global offshore infrastructure and
network of offices in 26 countries to provide holistic, multi-service
delivery in key industry verticals including Financial Services,
Manufacturing, Consumer Services, Public Services and Healthcare. HCL takes
pride in its philosophy of 'Employee First' which empowers our 64,557
transformers to create a real value for the customers. HCL Technologies,
along with its subsidiaries, had consolidated revenues of US$ 2.7 billion
(Rs. 12,565 crores), for the year ended on 30th June 2010. For more
information, please visit http://www.hcltech.com
About Daon
Daon is a leading provider of identity assurance software
products focused on meeting the needs of governments and commercial
organizations worldwide. Daon supports customers and system integrators in
building enterprise solutions requiring the highest level of security,
performance, scalability, reliability and privacy. Daon's COTS products are
scalable, flexible and proven in the most challenging real-world environments
and have been selected to secure more than 700 million identities around the
globe. The Daon product suite covers every aspect of identity management from
pre-enrollment and identity proofing to enrollment, multimodal capture,
adjudication, credentialing and provisioning; and provides a technology
agnostic approach which gives leverage to the customer. Daon's offices are
located in Washington DC, New York, Canberra, Singapore, London and Dublin.
For further information, please visit: http://www.daon.com
Forward-looking Statements
Certain statements in this release are forward-looking
statements, which involve a number of risks, uncertainties, assumptions and
other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those
in such forward-looking statements. All statements, other than statements of
historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking
statements, including but not limited to the statements containing the words
'planned,' 'expects,' 'believes,' 'strategy,' 'opportunity,' 'anticipates,'
'hopes' or other similar words. The risks and uncertainties relating to these
statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding
impact of pending regulatory proceedings, fluctuations in earnings, our
ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services, Business
Process Outsourcing and consulting services including those factors which may
affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, customer acceptances of
our services, products and fee structures, our ability to attract and retain
highly skilled professionals, our ability to integrate acquired assets in a
cost effective and timely manner, time and cost overruns on fixed-price,
fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on
immigration, 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, the success of our brand development
efforts, 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, other risks, uncertainties and general economic
conditions affecting our industry. There can be no assurance that the
forward-looking statements made herein will prove to be accurate, and
issuance of such forward-looking statements should not be regarded as a
representation by the Company, or any other person, that the objective and
plans of the Company will be achieved. All forward-looking statements made
herein are based on information presently available to the management of the
Company and 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.
For details, contact:
Kirsten Paragona
HCL Technologies
Phone: +1-857-350-5393
Email: kparagona@hcl.com
Jill Newberry
BluePoint Venture Marketing for HCL Technologies
Phone: +1-781-861-7800
Email: jill@bluepointmktg.com
Cheryl Walker Waldrup
Vice President, Global Marketing
Daon, Inc.
Phone: +1-703-984-4040
Email: Cheryl.waldrup@daon.com
Source: HCL Technologies
For details, contact: Kirsten Paragona, HCL Technologies, Phone: +1-857-350-5393, Email: kparagona@hcl.com ; Jill Newberry, BluePoint Venture Marketing for HCL Technologies, Phone: +1-781-861-7800, Email: jill@bluepointmktg.com ; Cheryl Walker Waldrup, Vice President, Global Marketing, Daon, Inc., Phone: +1-703-984-4040, Email: Cheryl.waldrup@daon.com