HCL Technologies (HCL), a homegrown leading global technology company, announces entering into a five-year Digital Workplace Services Agreement with Airbus. The news comes in with impeccable timing, considering a lot happening in the Employee experience industry, including Microsoft launching its first of its kind employee experience platform, Microsoft Viva.

In the aftermath of the deal, HCL will establish a modernized digital workplace to enhance the user experience and service quality for the majority of Airbus employees globally. According to HCL, it was selected as Airbus’ preferred partner as it was able to offer the broadest combination of standard functionality and innovation capabilities to generate greater efficiency and improved time to market.

HCL’s Workplace Model is poised to enable Airbus to deploy the latest digital technologies and will rapidly simplify Airbus’ existing IT processes and optimization of delivery costs, using end-to-end management services to cover the information and operational technology landscape.

“We’re delighted to be working with Airbus as a key strategic partner in its digital workplace transformation journey. The combination of HCL’s scale transformational expertise and management capabilities of IT and OT landscape will enable Airbus to remain at the forefront of innovation and deliver leading-edge user experiences,” said Sandeep Saxena, Executive Vice President (UK&I, France & Benelux), HCL Technologies.