By A CORRESPONDENT
Mumbai, September 19, 2007

HCL Technologies (HCL), a leading global IT services company, announced it has expanded its relationship with Celestica, a global provider of innovative electronics manufacturing services (EMS), to provide SAP deployment and support. Under the terms of this three-year agreement, HCL will deploy and customize Celestica's SAP suite in a global delivery model across Asia, North America, Latin America and
Europe.

Through HCL's global implementation and support methodology, Celestica and HCL will execute common processes and adhere to common governance structures under a fully managed service – executing customer-related projects more rapidly and achieving consistent levels of service worldwide.

"Our goal is to drive supply chain efficiencies and integrated global services to bring cost and time-to-market benefits to our customers," said Lisa Charney, Chief Information Officer, Celestica.

"With the increasing complexity of the global supply chain, ensuring consistency and speed across the world is a key competitive advantage," said Sandeep Kishore, Sr. V-P, Hi-Tech and Manufacturing at HCL.

This new contract expands upon a four-year relationship between the two companies through which HCL and Celestica have successfully provided integrated solutions to customers across the telecom, enterprise, consumer, medical, aerospace and semiconductor sectors.

Last year, the partnership was further expanded with a joint venture to provide a fully integrated product lifecycle solution to OEM customers – including product concept, design, engineering, manufacturing, fulfillment, sustaining engineering, reverse logistics and after-market services. HCL's broad and scalable design engineering capabilities combined with Celestica's existing strengths in hardware design for manufacturability and supply chain integration create an exciting new alternative for OEMs seeking time-to-market and total cost advantages