New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS): Global IT services provider, HCL Technologies, opened a new service delivery centre in Oslo, to support its ongoing growth in the Nordic country, a company statement said here Tuesday.

The new centre will enhance HCL's delivery capabilities and serve as a hub to provide transformational IT infrastructure and application services to its customers in the region, it said.

"This is HCL's third delivery centre in the Nordics besides Espoo (Finland) and Stavanger (Norway). Located in the heart of Oslo's Barcode business area, the new centre will support more than 100 seats," the statement said.

DNB, Norway's largest financial services group, will be among the first to benefit from the opening of HCL's Oslo service delivery centre.

"The proximity of HCL's new service delivery centre to DNB's headquarters will be a significant benefit in supporting our strategic business needs," said its chief operating officer Liv Fiksdahl.

"The new centre will bolster our delivery and solution capabilities in the region and enable closer collaboration with our customers and partners . In the region, HCL is focusing on co-innovation that is driving digitalisation and enabling our customers to stay competitive in the new connected world," said C. Vijay Kumar, corporate vice president & global head of Infrastructure Services Delivery, HCL Technologies.

HCL's innovative delivery model provides significant savings and operational benefits to customers through a highly flexible, transparent and collaborative approach.

"The new global delivery centre in Oslo will be a strategic asset for our business and is a key milestone in our continuing dominance in the Nordics," said Ashish Kumar Gupta, executive vice president & head - EMEA, infrastructure services, HCL Technologies.