HCL Infosystems bags Rs 240cr  BSNL IT deal

New Delhi: HCL Infosystems has been selected to implement 'System Integration Project' for Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL). The Rs 240 crore contract involves the implementation of over 60,000 ERP licences, making it the largest rollout in terms of licenses issued for any single project in the country. The prime objective of ERP system is to improve the information flow to facilitate better decision making, leading to overall improvement in the performance of the organization by way of improvements in the productivity, cycle time, financial performance and information transparency.

As a part of the BSNL's business transformation program, HCL will migrate its finance, commissioning and operations functions onto a single ERP system. The project rollout includes setting up of the main data center at Hyderabad and the disaster recovery data center at Kolkata. Installation and commissioning at these centers will streamline these business processes, provide a single view of the business, aiding compliance to storage system, security system, enterprise management system, network management systems, access management system, etc of existing data centers.

“This project for BSNL is in line with our focus on the system integration business. There is no better endorsement than being chosen to provide ongoing ERP support services for BSNL, as this demonstrates the value that we bring to implementations of this kind in the system integration arena. We believe that a country-wide ERP solution is critical to capture and map various business processes and management of work flow in order to provide better decision pathways in organizations with major footprint across the country,” said JV Ramamurthy, COO, HCL Infosystems.

The project contract is for seven years, including configuration, business process re-engineering, hardware, networking, operations and maintenance customization, training to BSNL employees and program management. BSNL has also selected HCL to provide ongoing support services for the project.