Global IT solutions provider HCL Technologies Ltd has signed a five-year multi-million dollar agreement with US-based Autodesk Inc to provide offshore application and data centre services.

The company will support Autodesk in meeting the global business requirements and projected growth over the next three-five years by leveraging world-class IT management processes and economies of scale, a company statement said.

"This engagement takes our remote infrastructure management proposition to the next level. Autodesk, as a leading solutions and services privider, has a very large and complex application and data centre environment. We will deliver the managed services to allow them to succeed in their strategy of building IT operational scalability and implementing world class IT management processes," HCL Technologies president Vineet Nayar said.

HCL will provide application and data centre services for business-critical IT applications, including SAP, Siebel, Informatica and others.

The agreement covers application administration, software configuration management, monitoring, maintenance and technical support as well as support tools and utilities implementation, it said.

In addition, HCL will provide general infrastructure management that includes general operations and administrative services, such as storage and data management, technical support and database administration.

Autodesk is a leading global software and services company for the building, manufacturing, infrastructure, media and entertainment and wireless data services fields.