TCS to establish Medical Information Sciences Center in India to support the relationship with Lilly
15th November, 2006, Mumbai
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading global technology and consulting services organization, announced today that it has established a relationship with Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) to advance Lilly's clinical research and development. Lilly is a leading, innovation-driven U.S. corporation committed to developing a growing portfolio of best-in-class and first-in-class pharmaceutical products.
For this multi-year engagement, Tata Consultancy Services has established a new facility, the 'Lilly-TCS Medical Information Sciences Center', at its Noida site near New Delhi, to house the staff working on Lilly projects. Through this new center, TCS will work with Lilly's Medical Information Sciences disciplines to provide a wide range of services in clinical data management, statistical analysis and medical writing.
"The goal of our relationship with TCS has several dimensions beyond reducing cost and risk, including gaining access to a global talent pool, increasing flexibility and scalability of our resources and maintaining a global workflow that is operational 24 hours a day," said Dr. Steve Ruberg, Group Director, Global Medical Information Sciences, Lilly.
"TCS was selected because of its rich and varied experience as well as for its strong project management capabilities, and ability to provide customers with talented persons and innovative approaches to address their needs," said Jay Turpen, Director, Sourcing Capabilities, Lilly.
"The Lilly-TCS engagement represents a landmark for India's healthcare business and further validates our strategy to aggressively position TCS as a full services player in the emerging Life Sciences and Healthcare sector," said N. Chandrasekaran, Executive Vice President and Head, Global Sales and Operations, TCS.
"The Lilly-TCS project is anticipated to be a role model for the Life Sciences sector as it is designed to create mutual benefits based on collaboration and increased productivity within the two organizations," said J Rajagopal, Executive Vice-President and Head, Life Sciences and Healthcare at TCS.
The Industry Practice has over 2700 professionals including pharmacologists, physicians, biomedical engineers, biostatisticians, ICH/GCP compliance professionals, GxP consultants, PhDs, IT architects, consultants and management graduates who are focused on providing best in class IT consulting, solutions and services to Life Sciences and Healthcare customers across the world.
TCS' Life Sciences services cover the entire spectrum from Drug Discovery, Clinical Trials, Clinical Data Management, Statistical Analysis, Medical Writing and Drug Development, to Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical Sales & Distribution and Product Management. In Healthcare, TCS' experience includes HMS-Hospital Management Systems, Electronic Health Record Systems, Supply Chain Management, HIPAA Administrative Simplification Compliance, Business Intelligence and Customer Health Portals.
TCS has worked with a number of leading pharmaceutical and healthcare companies across the value chain. The Practice has an impressive list of clients, which includes highly reputable multinational organizations.
About Tata Consultancy Services (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 70,000 of the world's best trained IT consultants located in 35 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