HCL to provide support services to Linde Group

HCL Technologies on Thursday announced that its German subsidiary has entered into a multi-year, multi-regional enterprise resource planning support services and projects engagement with gases and engineering firm The Linde Group. As per the engagement, HCL gets the prime vendor status for Linde’s support services and projects on the SAP enterprise software platform. The financial details were not disclosed.

“We are delighted that The Linde Group has decided to partner with HCL Technologies to deliver leading-edge SAP services in support of its ERP strategy. With the recent acquisition of Axon and the formation of the HCL AXON division, HCL Technologies significantly enhanced its ERP offering and this global agreement with The Linde Group is testament to the growing recognition of the value we bring our customers,” said HCL Axon president Steve Cardell.

HCL had acquired UK’s SAP consultancy Axon Group for £441 million ($658 million) last year. Axon was then reverse merged with HCL’s SAP practice to form HCL Axon.