Hindustan Computers Ltd.

(HCL) is an Electronics, Computing and IT company based

in Noida, India. The company comprises two publicly listed companies, HCL
Technologies and HCL Infosystems.

HCL was focused on addressing the IT hardware market in India for the first two decades
of its existence with some sporadic activity in the global market.

On termination of the joint venture with HP in 1996, HCL became an enterprise which
comprises HCL Technologies (to address the global IT services market) and HCL
Infosystems (to address the Indian and APAC IT hardware market). HCL has since then
operated as a holding company

History Of HCL
In 1976, Shiv Nadar, Arjun Malhotra, Subhash Arora, Badam Kishore Kumar, T.V
Bharadwaj,& Arun Kumar H started Microcomp Limited. The focus of the company was
design and manufacturing of scientific calculators. The venture provided its founders
money to start a company that focused on manufacturing computers. The company name
"HCL" used to stand for "Hindustan Computers Limited" but now HCL is the only one
name that the company goes by. HCL received support from the Uttar Pradesh
government to setup manufacturing in Noida.

In 1981, NIIT was started to cater to the increasing demand in computer education. By
early 2000s, Nadar divested his stake in this venture.[2][3]

HCL Technologies
Focuses on the global market. Services provided- Product Engineering & R&D,
Enterprise & Custom Applications,Enterprise Transformation Services Infrastructure
Management, and BPO Services. It has operations spanning 31 countries with delivery
facilities in USA, UK, Finland, Poland, Puerto Rico,Brazil, China, Malaysia, Singapore,
Australia, Czech Republic, and India.

HCL Infosystems Ltd

HCL Infosystems Ltd.,[4] a listed subsidiary of HCL, is an India-based hardware and
systems integrator. It has a presence in 170 locations and 300 service centres throughout
India. Its manufacturing facilities are based in Chennai, Pondicherry and Uttarakhand. It
is headquartered at Noida.

HCL Peripherals (a unit of HCL Infosystems Ltd.), founded in the year 1983, is a
manufacturer of computer peripherals in India of Display Products, Thin Client solutions,
Information and Interactive Kiosks and a range of Networking products & Solutions.
HCL Peripherals has two Manufacturing facilities, one in Pondicherry (Electronics) and
the other in Chennai (Mechanical). The company has been given ISO:27001
certifications.

HCL ERC(Enterprise Response Center) was started to give outstanding support to its
customers, at Puducherry, in 2007, . It has grown and team of domain experts working in
it.