HCL Axon
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| Type | Wholly owned subsidiary |
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| Industry | Consulting |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Headquarters | Egham, Surrey |
| Key people | Vineet Nayar, CEO-HCL Technologies Stephen Cardell, President - HCL AXON |
| Owner(s) | HCL Technologies |
| Website | www.hcl-axon.com |
HCL AXON is a British-based business transformation consultancy which sells its services to customers using SAP and Oracle as their Enterprise Resource Planning system modeling tools. Previously listed on the London Stock Exchange and a FTSE 250 Index constituent, the company has been a subsidiary of Indian outsourcing firm HCL Technologies since December 2008, after the reverse merger of Axon Group plc and HCL SAP practice.
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History[edit]
The Company was founded by Mark Hunter, Donald Kirkwood and Paul Manweiler in 1994. It acquired Feanix in 2005.[1] In August 2008 Infosys Technologies offered £407m to acquire the business. This offer was subsequently beaten by a rival offer for £441m by HCL Technologies.[2] The acquisition by HCL was completed in December 2008.[3]
On 17 July 2009 HCL AXON announced the acquisition of South Africa-based UCS Group’s Enterprise Solutions SAP practice.[4]
On 1 July 2010, HCL AXON became the Enterprise Application Services part of HCL Technologies, incorporating SAP, Oracle and Microsoft offerings.[5]
Operations[edit]
The Company provides the following services:[6]
- Business consulting
- Solutions implementation
- Application management
- Business transformation
- SAP Integration Services
- Packaged offerings
- SAP Academy
- Oracle Applications and Technologies
- Microsoft solutions
References[edit]
- ^ India’s Infosys offers £407m for British IT firm
- ^ Indian bidding war puts £440m tag on UK’s Axon
- ^ "HCL Tech to close 441 mn pounds Axon deal". The Economic Times. 11 December 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
- ^ HCL Axon buys UCS Group's SAP operation
- ^ HCL shifts focus from commodity IT to business
- ^ Axon Group: Services
