London | Mumbai, October 28, 2014: Tata Consultancy Services (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, has been recognized as a leader in the first NelsonHall Vendor Evaluation and Assessment Tool (NEAT) for Overall Software Testing Services.

The NEAT is a new tool to assist buy-side IT executives, software quality managers and procurement specialists in assessing vendor capabilities in software testing services. The tool is based on a two-axis model, rating a vendor’s ability to deliver immediate benefit and their ability to deliver innovation in support of client-specific requirements.

TCS has been recognized as a leader in assurance services among 20 service providers. Some of the key capabilities that have earned TCS this title are its continued strong progress in its go-to-market strategy, scale of assurance operations, healthy prospect pipelines and strong testing services portfolio. Additionally, developing innovative products like Intelligent Testing System (ITS), which are a significant and comprehensive effort to automate testing across the entire lifecycle, contribute to TCS’ position. Equipped with these strengths, TCS’ assurance services’ addresses both business and quality challenges for its global clients empowering organizations across domains to optimize overheads, realize first mover advantage and improve customer satisfaction.

Siva Ganesan, Vice President and Global Head, Assurance Services Unit, TCS, said, “We are excited to be featured as a Leader in the NEAT analysis. We are committed to deliver world-leading assurance and test solutions to our customers across industries in all markets.”

Dominique Raviart, Research Director at NelsonHall, said, “Spending in software testing services is experiencing a rapid growth as organizations aim to centralize testing, standardize processes, increase automation levels and overall expand the role of testing from execution to quality assurance services."

“TCS has been investing in its service offering, e.g. around cloud, big data and analytics or agile testing, and develop proprietary IPs and tools to further automate testing execution. A key feature of TCS’ automation effort is its Intelligent Testing Systems, which intends to expand test automation from execution towards earlier phases in the testing life cycle. Based on NelsonHall’s recent software testing services NEAT, TCS has emerged as a clear leader and is very well positioned to meet clients’ needs, through tools and service portfolio, as well as its consistent delivery network across countries."

About Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS)
Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that delivers real results to global business, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of  IT,  BPS,  infrastructure,  engineering and  assurance services. This is delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model™, recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the Tata group, India’s largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 310,000 of the world’s best-trained consultants in 46 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $13.4 billion for year ended March 31, 2014 and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India. For more information, visit us at www.tcs.com.

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