Friday, 30 October 2015

HCL Technologies Acquires PowerObjects

HCL Technologies has acquired PowerObjects, a US based provider of Microsoft Dynamics Customer resource management solution, for $46 Million, to bolster its offerings in the applications development space. Together HCL and Power Objects will now offer one of the largest Microsoft Dynamic Practices in North America.
Based in Minneapolis, PowerObjects has more than 250 employees who will now be transferred to the rolls of HCL. The total consideration for the transaction includes contingent payments which are subject to certain financial milestones. The existing leadership team of PowerObjects will remain in place and no workforce changes are planned.

HCL has been on an acquisition spree of mostly small companies. PowerObjects is the fourth company it has bought this year. This week, HCL would buy Swedish automaker Volvo Group’s External IT business, which provides IT Infrastructure, mainframe services and application operation services, for an all-cash payment of $138 Million.

Microsoft Dynamics is one of the fastest growing CRM products. Research firm Gartner expects CRM to become a $36 Billion Worldwide market by 2017 growing at an annual rate of 13.3% since 2014. It is projected to grow faster than any other enterprise software category, as businesses look to build upon term customer relationships.

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