TCS Receives Supplier Excellence Award for Performance Excellence
New York, May 23rd, 2006
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading global IT services firm, today announced that it has been selected as a winner of Verizon's 2005 Supplier Excellence Award (SEA) in the Services category. Competing against three other finalists in the Services category TCS won for outstanding effort and achievement in demonstrating performance excellence. The annual award recognizes Verizon's top suppliers that have helped the communications leader provide exceptional service to its customers. The five winners across five categories were recognized at the fifth annual award ceremony held May 12 at Verizon's headquarters.
TCS provides application support and monitoring for Verizon. TCS has been working with Verizon since 1999 and has participated in various key initiatives.
"We are honored to have received the Verizon Supplier Excellence award for the third consecutive year," said Surya Kant, president Tata Consultancy Services, Americas. "It demonstrates our commitment and successful track record in creating value for our customers, but also our dedication to effectively meet their changing business needs."
Verizon's SEA program is a corporate-wide program facilitated by the Supply Chain Services Quality Management group for which nominees, including suppliers of products and services who achieved overall performance excellence (98 percent or greater).
"Tata Consultancy Services has supported Verizon in our commitment to excellence. Like the four other companies that received a 2005 Verizon Supplier Excellence Award, TCS has joined an elite class of vendors that deliver a blend of superior products, services and value that allow Verizon to focus on better serving our customers," said George Dowell, vice president of Supply Chain Services, Verizon Services Operations.
About Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS)
Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) is the world leading information technology consulting, services, business process outsourcing and engineering services organization that envisioned and pioneered the adoption of the flexible global business practices that today enable companies to operate more efficiently and produce more value. TCS achieved this by creating and perfecting a unique method of global deployment and delivery of high quality, high value services and products in IT consulting and business process outsourcing. Known as the "Global Delivery Model," this strategic services delivery concept has reshaped the IT services industry.
More than 95% of TCS customers reward the company's reliability, passion, creativity, and unique ability to handle the broadest range of their IT needs by continually extending and deepening their partnerships with TCS. With over 60,000 of the world's best trained IT consultants located in 34 countries, TCS is uniquely positioned to deliver its flexible world class services seamlessly to any location. TCS reported consolidated revenues of $2.97 billion (U.S.) in the fiscal year 2005-2006. The company is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India. For more information: www.tcs.com.