HCL as a global partner of Varicent will provide clients with systems integration expertise, delivering Varicent SPM solutions throughout the Asia-Pacific region, and implementing Varicent for Microsoft Dynamics CRM throughout North America. The partnership will reportedly help HCL offer their existing clients an additional application suite to further improve sales performance in their organizations.

"In today's competitive world, sales performance management is increasingly becoming the key decisive factor in influencing the sales force to impact the business performance." said Ram Krishna, Senior Corporate Vice President & Head of Enterprise Application Services, HCL Technologies. "We are pleased to partner with Varicent and offer SPM solutions to our global enterprise customers. The solutions will enhance our service offerings, create differentiators and add tremendous value to our Microsoft Dynamics capabilities." he further added.

"The partnership with HCL Technologies will bring our global customers significant benefit," said Mark Girvan, Vice President Business Development for Varicent. "HCL has a proven track record in delivering value to their customers, and in implementing Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Combining this with Varicent's world class solution provides the market a very cohesive yet affordable solution," he said.

"We are excited that two of our valued partners have entered into their own partnership," said Susan Hauser, vice president, Worldwide Financial Services Sector and acting vice president of Worldwide Industry & Global Accounts, Microsoft. "Microsoft has the broadest, most comprehensive ecosystem of partners in the IT industry, with the ability to provide customized solutions across all verticals. This newly formed alliance provides an excellent example of the power of our partner ecosystem because it will enable all of us to more easily work together and continue to effectively and efficiently deliver increasing value and better ROI for our customers," he added.