Why should you partner with TCS?
Partnership with TCS IT-as-a-Service offers you the following benefits
Aggregation Power & Economics of Scale
- Integrated end-to-end IT and telecom solutions.
- One-stop shop for every IT need
- Lowest price due to discounts accrued on bulk purchases.
Business Enhancing Application & e-Marketplace
- Vertical specific applications giving SMBs the competitive advantage
- Platform for B2B networking
- Opportunity for Cross leverage
- Opportunity for Growth and expansion
Pedigree and Credentials
- TATA/ TCS Brand
- Dedicated delivery model
- Better managed SLAs
Appropriate Financial Model
- TCS would own the application and the IT infrastructure
- No Capex requirement, only a subscription fees as per the IT services rendered.
- Pay as you Grow financing option
- Align SMBs’s IT requirements to the current business needs.
- Easy scale up of IT needs with business growth.
Global, yet localized Best Practices
- Home Market Reach (Tier 2 Cities) advantage shall lead to better quality of service to SMBs and long term localized commitment
- Customizing global solutions to local needs
- Solution Integration without vendor bias
- Product / Service catalogue selection for optimal price points
- TCS Global Market experience in relevant industry and technology
- Exposure to Benchmarked practices
Mass Customized Shared Services
- Standardized solutions at low cost customizable to specific SMB needs
- Central hosting , and thereby provide the means to enhance economies of scale
How are TCS SMB practice offerings an attractive proposition from a financing viewpoint?
TCS IT-as-a-Service solution offers you to circumvent the burden of deploying, managing and supporting costly hardware and software in house.
Salient Points in TCS Pricing:
- Initial Sign up Amount
- Subscription charges levied as per the IT services rendered
- A fixed % of the Customer’s revenue, payable monthly, for standard elements on offer (or)
- Flat service fees, payable monthly, for standard elements on offer
- Add-on’s will be priced additional, based on service type – one time, or increase in monthly service fee.
TCS’ attractive financing options will help SMBs
Minimize Capital Expenditure:
Under the IT-as-a-Service model, SMBs do not have to own either the application or the infrastructure resulting in minimal capital expenditure.
Reduce Operating Expenditure:
SMBs will only incur operating expenditure, which will be equivalent to the subscription charges levied as per the IT services rendered.
The model will also eliminate the requirement of maintaining IT specialist on their payrolls
Align their IT requirements to the current business needs.
Pay as you Grow’ model would help SMBs align their IT requirements to the current business needs.
The monthly subscription model allows the SMBs to easily scale up their IT needs with business growth, thereby aligning their IT service payments to business results
How is data security ensured?
- TCS has vast experience in working with customers to build security strategies which leverage TCS' security expertise, tools and processes while ensuring customer data privacy, increased responsiveness through defined service levels and flexibility to scale or change the organization's security strategy as required.
- TCS IT-as-a-Service leverages on TCS capability to provide a comprehensive secure environment for electronic communication which will address Transactional Security. With a network of Certifying Authorities, Registration Authorities, Directories of Digital Certificates and a range of protocols, standards and policies, TCS IT-as-a-Service ensures integrity, authenticity and non-repudiation across online transactions.