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HCLTech
HCL Technologies Limited ( d/b/a HCLTech) is an Indian multinational information technology (IT) consulting company headquartered in Noida. Founded by Shiv Nadar, it was spun out in 1991 when HCL entered into the software services business. The company has offices in 60 countries and over 220,000 employees. It is the third-largest India-headquartered IT services company by revenue and market capitalization as of 2024. History Formation and early years In 1976, a group of eight engineers, all former employees of Delhi Cloth & General Mills, led by Shiv Nadar, started a company that would make personal computers. Initially floated as ''Microcomp Limited'', Nadar and his team (which also included Arjun Malhotra, Ajai Chowdhry, D.S. Puri, Yogesh Vaidya and Subhash Arora) started selling teledigital calculators to gather capital for their main product. On 11 August 1976, the company was renamed Hindustan Computers Limited (HCL). HCL Enterprise developed an indigenous micro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Security AppScan
HCL AppScan (previously known as IBM AppScan) is a family of desktop and web security testing and monitoring tools, formerly a part of the Rational Software division of IBM. In July 2019, the product was acquired by HCLTech and is currently marketed under HCLSoftware, a product development division of HCLTech. History AppScan was originally developed by Israeli software company Sanctum Ltd. (formerly Perfecto Technologies) and was first released in 1998. A year later, Sanctum expanded its web security service and launched an Application firewall, called AppShield. The first version of AppShield was developed by a team led by Gili Raanan, and was running on a dedicated Linux server. AppScan version 2.0 was released in February 2001, adding a policy recognition engine and knowledge database, an automatic and customizable crawler engine, and an attack simulator. Version 3 was released in April 2002, adding collaborative testing capabilities, where different tasks can be assigned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
C Vijayakumar
C Vijayakumar is the CEO & Managing Director of HCLTech, a global technology company. He was appointed the company’s CEO in October 2016 and its Managing Director in July 2021. Life and education Vijayakumar was born in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, India and did his schooling from ‘ The Lawrence School’ in Lovedale, Ooty. He is a graduate in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from P.S.G. College of Technology, Tamil Nadu, India and currently resides in New Jersey in the USA. Career C Vijayakumar joined HCLTech in 1994 in the founding startup A startup or start-up is a company or project undertaken by an entrepreneur to seek, develop, and validate a scalable business model. While entrepreneurship includes all new businesses including self-employment and businesses that do not intend to ... team of Comnet as a senior technical engineer. He was appointed the company's chief operating officer in July 2016 and in October that same year was promoted to be the CEO, succeeding A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
IBM BigFix
HCL BigFix is an endpoint management platform that automates the discovery, management, and remediation of all endpoints, including virtual, cloud, and on-premise endpoints. HCL BigFix automates the management, patching, and inventory of nearly 100 operating systems. History In 2010, IBM acquired BigFix, Inc., a software developer out of Emeryville, California, and its endpoint security platform, which is also called BigFix. Under IBM, BigFix went through a series of re-brandings, including a 2013 release as IBM Endpoint Manager (IEM). Then, in 2018, India-based software company HCL acquired BigFix in a $1.8 billion purchase of select IBM software products. Relevance language Relevant language enables authors to query the hardware and software properties of networked clients. Developed for BigFix prior to its purchase by IBM, the Relevance language provides an interface displaying information about a client, such as processor usage or available disk space, and it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Actian
Actian is an American software company headquartered in Santa Clara, California that provides Analytics, analytics-related software, products, and services. The company sells database, database software and technology, Cloud computing, cloud engineered systems, and Data integration, data integration solutions. Timeline * 1980: Relational Technology, Inc. was founded to commercialize Ingres (developed at UC Berkeley). * 1988: RTI went public, raising $28 million on their IPO. * 1989: Changed name to Ingres Corporation. * 1990: ASK Group, ASK Computer Systems acquires Ingres Corporation. * 1994: CA Technologies, Computer Associates (CA) acquires the ASK Group. * 2005: Ingres Corporation spun out of CA, with private equity firm Garnett & Helfrich Capital as largest shareholder. * 2010: Ingres acquires VectorWise. * 2011: Changed name to Actian. * 2012: Actian acquires Versant Corporation. * 2013: Actian acquires Pervasive Software and ParAccel. * 2018: Actian was acquired by HCL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Shiv Nadar
Shiv Nadar (born 14 July 1945) is an Indian billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman of HCL Technologies, and is chairman of the Shiv Nadar Foundation. Nadar founded HCL in 1976 and transformed the IT hardware company into an IT enterprise over the next three decades. In 2008, Nadar was awarded the Padma Bhushan for his efforts in the IT industry. Nadar, nicknamed by friends as ''Magus'' (Old Persian for " wizard"), since the mid-1990s he has focused his efforts on developing the educational system of India through the Shiv Nadar Foundation. According to ''Forbes'', he has an estimated net worth of US$36.5 billion as of 26 March 2025, making him one of the richest people in the world. Early life Nadar was born in Moolaipozhi village, Madras Presidency (present day Thoothukudi district, Tamil Nadu) into a Tamil Hindu family. His parents were Sivasubramaniya Nadar and Vamasundari Devi. His mother, Vamasundari Devi, is the sister of S. P. Adi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
HCL Domino
HCL Notes (formerly Lotus Notes then IBM Notes) is a proprietary collaborative software platform for Unix (AIX), IBM i, Windows, Linux, and macOS, sold by HCLTech. The client application is called Notes while the server component is branded HCL Domino. HCL Notes provides business collaboration functions, such as email, calendars, to-do lists, contact management, discussion forums, file sharing, websites, instant messaging, blogs, document libraries, user directories, and custom applications. It can also be used with other HCL Domino applications and databases. IBM Notes 9 Social Edition removed integration with the office software package IBM Lotus Symphony, which had been integrated with the Lotus Notes client in versions 8.x. Lotus Development Corporation originally developed "Lotus Notes" in 1989. IBM bought Lotus in 1995 and it became known as the Lotus Development division of IBM. On December 6, 2018, IBM announced that it was selling a number of software products to HCLSof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Noida
Noida (), short for New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (ISO: ), is a city located in Gautam Buddha Nagar district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. As per provisional reports of Census of India, the population of Noida in 2011 was 642,381. The city is managed by New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (NOIDA). The district's administrative headquarters are in the nearby city of Greater Noida. The city is a part of the Noida (Vidhan Sabha) constituency and Gautam Buddha Nagar (Lok Sabha) constituency. Noida was ranked as the "Best City in Uttar Pradesh" in the "Best City Awards" conducted by ABP News in 2015. It is also ranked the cleanest city in medium category cities (cities with a population of 300,000 to 1,000,000) and 4th cleanest city among cities with less than 1,000,000 people. History The city lies in the cultural region of Braj. Noida came into administrative existence on 17 April 1976 and celebrates 17 April as "Noida Day". It was set up as part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Unica Corporation
Unica is a brand within HCLSoftware, a part of HCL Technologies comprising multiple Enterprise Marketing Management components. It was formerly a brand within IBM. HCL acquired Unica as a part of $1.8 billion purchase of select IBM products When purchased by IBM, Unica was managed by Yuchun Lee and had around 500 employees. History Unica was founded in 1992 by Yuchun Lee, Ruby Kennedy and David Cheung. The company is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, with additional offices in the US, Australia, France, Germany, India, Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, and the UK. They primarily serve the financial services, insurance and healthcare, business-to-business services, retail, automotive, technology, telecommunications, travel and hospitality, media and publishing, energy, and pharmaceutical markets. In August 2010, IBM announced its intent to acquire Unica for $480M. In Oct 2010 the IBM acquisition of Unica was completed. Post acquisition, the Unica portfolio was focused o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
WebSphere Portal
HCL Digital Experience is an enterprise software used to build and manage web portals. It provides access to web content and applications, while delivering personalized experiences for users. The WebSphere Portal package is a component of WebSphere application software. Like WebSphere, WebSphere Portal was originally developed and marketed by IBM. Portal has been released since 2001,. and is now sold in five editions.. In July 2019, IBM completed the sale of WebSphere Portal (along with several other IBM products) to HCL Technologies. WebSphere Portal software has been reviewed numerous times in the IT industry press, and honors include eWeek Magazine's 2004 Excellence Award in the category "Portals and Knowledge Management", Java Pro Magazine's 2003 Reader's Choice Award for "Best Team Development Tool", and the Software and Information Industry Association's 2003 Codie award for "Best Enterprise Portal Platform". Components The WebSphere Portal package is available in fiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
HCL Commerce
HCL Commerce Cloud (formerly known as WebSphere Commerce and WCS (WebSphere Commerce Suite)) is a proven e-commerce solution designed to support extremely high transaction and site traffic volumes on a single deployed instance and supports all business models including B2C, B2B, B2B2C, D2C and MarketPlaces. HCL Commerce Cloud is built on the Java - Java EE platform using open standards, such as XML, and Web services. Formerly a product of IBM, the product was sold to HCL Technologies in July 2019. Versions The first version of the platform was introduced in 1996, during the emergence of e-commerce with a product called Net.Commerce (V1.0 and subsequently V2.0, V3.1, and V3.2) that was first deployed to sell event tickets and merchandise for the 1996 Olympic Games. In 2001, Net.Commerce was renamed to WebSphere Commerce Suite, releasing versions V4.1 and V5.1. In 2002, WebSphere Commerce V5.4 was released, followed by V5.5 in 2003, V5.6 in 2004 and V5.6.1 in 2005. The latest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
HCL Connections
HCL Connections is a Web 2.0 enterprise social software application developed originally by IBM and acquired by HCL Technologies in July 2019. Connections is an enterprise-collaboration platform which aims to helps teams work more efficiently. Connections is part of HCL collaboration suite which also includes Notes / Domino, Sametime, Portal and Connections. Overview Connections was announced at Lotusphere 2007, and Version 1.0 shipped on June 27 that year. HCL Connections has the following components: * Homepage – a portal site which can federate information from many sources. * Microblogging – primarily used to stay current with updates from across the social network through the home page * Profiles – a social network service – primarily used to find people in the organization by expertise, current projects, and responsibilities. Home page, microblogs, and tags. * Communities – a collaborative space for people to work together with a discussion forum space. * I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
NIFTY 50
The NIFTY 50 is an Indian stock market index that represents the Capitalization-weighted index#Free-float weighting, float-weighted average of 50 of the largest Indian companies listed on the National Stock Exchange of India, National Stock Exchange. Nifty 50 is owned and managed by NSE Indices, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Stock Exchange of India. The Nifty 50 index was launched on 22 April 1996 with a base date of 3 November 1995 and with 1000 as its base value. The NIFTY 50 index ecosystem consists of index funds (both onshore and offshore mutual funds and exchange-traded fund, ETFs), and Derivative (finance), futures and options at National Stock Exchange of India, NSE and NSE International Exchange (through GIFT Nifty). In 2016, NIFTY 50 was reported by the World Federation of Exchanges, WFE and Futures Industry Association, FIA as the world's most actively traded index Option (finance), options contract, but it was later overtaken by Nifty Bank. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
