AXON Puerto Rico Inaugurates SAP Services Center

AXON Puerto Rico, Inc. (APR), a joint venture between Pratt & Whitney and HCL AXON, today inaugurated its SAP Services Center in Isabela and announced plans to grow to 300 employees.  The Governor of Puerto Rico, Luis Fortuño, made the announcement with executives from both global companies.

APR provides SAP application management, solutions implementation and near-shore delivery and consulting services for projects in the Americas. It serves various business segments, including: defense, government, export markets and private enterprise. Due to the Center’s bilingual capabilities, it also serves the Latin America market. HCL AXON, the biggest global provider of SAP® solutions services, is a division of HCL Technologies, a Business Transformation consultancy that delivers significant value to large, complex organizations through support of SAP technologies.  Pratt & Whitney is a United Technologies company.

The new 33,444-square-foot Services Center is located on the property of the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company (PRIDCO) at the Mora Guerrero Industrial Park in Isabela.  

“Puerto Rico has unique characteristics that attract this type of businesses from the aerospace sector.  First, being Puerto Rico a US territory, we are subject to the same federal regulations. We are also in a strategic position and offer economic and tax incentives that are very attractive to this type of business,” says Hon. Luis Fortuño, Governor of Puerto Rico.

“Puerto Rico enjoys a uniquely attractive position to promote the start-up of new companies in the aerospace sector. Since the end of 2008, the aerospace industry reflects an investment of $18 Million and the creation of 500 direct jobs in Puerto Rico.  Our commitment at PRIDCO is to continue to increase the presence of the aerospace sector in the Island, in order to diversify our industrial base and create highly technical and well compensated jobs,” says Javier Vázquez –Morales, executive director of the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company (PRIDCO).

“Pratt & Whitney is highly committed to Puerto Rico. Our joint venture Infotech Aerospace Services, Inc. currently has 660 employees and AXON Puerto Rico already surpassed the 100-job mark.  After the goal of 300 high-technology jobs is reached at AXON Puerto Rico, there will be almost 1,000 employees in the Isabela operations.  This makes us very proud,” said Rita Peralta, AXON Puerto Rico President.

“We greatly value our partnership with Pratt & Whitney and look forward to a highly successful development of the vision we have created together and which is now a reality at AXON Puerto Rico.  This SAP services center is positioned to deliver exactly what the market is looking for,” says Steve Cardell, CEO of HCL AXON.

Chris Beiswenger, executive vice president of HCL AXON Americas stated “AXON Puerto Rico is a critical element in serving our Aerospace & Defense customers. The service our customers receive from AXON Puerto Rico is outstanding and the capabilities offered give us a unique position in the marketplace. Our partnership with Pratt & Whitney and our commitment to grow jobs in Puerto Rico are extremely strong.”