{"id":1004347,"date":"2026-04-23T08:29:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004347"},"modified":"2026-04-23T08:36:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:06:49","slug":"hcltech-ceo-expects-advanced-ai-services-to-soften-revenue-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/23\/hcltech-ceo-expects-advanced-ai-services-to-soften-revenue-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"HCLTech CEO expects advanced AI services to soften revenue impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While HCLTech is estimating a 2%-4% AI-led deflation in its annual revenue, chief executive C Vijayakumar is optimistic about the newer areas of services that AI is bringing in. Even as geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainties persist, cramping discretionary spending, the CEO expects its advanced AI services to soften the impact and grow faster at 25%-30%. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Uncertainties are there, but clients are spending on AI. Everybody wants to scale AI within their enterprises, from small projects to enterprise-wide scaling in areas like data security, cloud modernisation and physical AI-led services,&#8221; Vijayakumar told ET in an interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While HCLTech is estimating a 2%-4% AI-led deflation in its annual revenue, chief executive C Vijayakumar is optimistic about the newer areas of services that AI is bringing in. Even as geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainties persist, cramping discretionary spending, the CEO expects its advanced AI services to soften the impact and grow faster at 25%-30%. &#8220;Uncertainties are there, but clients are spending on AI. Everybody wants to scale AI within their enterprises, from small projects to enterprise-wide scaling in areas like data security, cloud modernisation and physical AI-led services,&#8221; Vijayakumar told ET in an interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}