TCS Named a Leader and Star Performer in Microsoft Azure Services by Everest Group

Tata Consultancy Services’ Strong Azure Partnership, Comprehensive Portfolio of Azure Services and Verticalized Cloud Solutions Cited as Key Strengths

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NEW YORK | MUMBAI, September 26, 2022: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS) has been recognized as a Leader and Star Performer in Everest Group’s PEAK Matrix® for Microsoft Azure System Integration Capabilities[1].

TCS was recognized as a Star Performer for demonstrating the strongest forward and upward movement on the matrix, based on its continued investments in intellectual property, comprehensive portfolio of Azure services, strong Azure partnership, and for forging strong client relations.

According to the report, enterprises will find TCS suitable for complex engagements on Azure such as mainframe modernization and SAP transformation due to its advanced specializations and tools such as the Mainframe Modernization Factory. Cited as key strengths are its multiple Azure-specific industry-contextualized solutions - TCS Optumera™, TCS Intelligent Urban Exchange™, Cognitive Plant Operations Advisor, as well as the TCS Clever Energy™ solution.

“By combining our customer-specific contextual knowledge and our technology and cloud expertise, we are helping clients reshape their business models – by driving purposeful, business-led transformation with the power of Microsoft Cloud,” said Siva Ganesan, Global Head, Microsoft Business Unit, TCS. “We are thrilled to be recognized by Everest, and we believe our position as a Leader is a reflection of our vision, strategy, market success and investments in Microsoft Cloud.”

TCS helps enterprises design, execute, and sustain their multi-horizon cloud transformation journeys, with end-to-end services including cloud advisory services, application and data estate modernization and migration, cloud-based industry solutions, cyber security, and managed services. Its industry leading portfolio of frameworks, accelerators, products, and platforms helps significantly speed up and de-risk clients’ cloud transformation journeys.

As a Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Service Partner and an early partner for Microsoft innovations like its industry clouds for Retail and Sustainability, TCS is at the fore of many of Microsoft’s innovations like Microsoft Viva, Microsoft’s autonomous systems platform, and Azure private mobile edge computing.

TCS helps clients scale and accelerate their innovation programs, harnessing the native capabilities of the cloud, including technologies like AI, data and analytics, IoT, edge, digital workplace, business applications, and blockchain. TCS works closely with customers at TCS Pace Ports™, its network of co-innovation and research hubs to ideate on their most pressing needs, rapidly prototype the most promising solution candidates, and build them. These centers, featuring Microsoft Innovation Garages, are spread across New York, Pittsburg, Toronto, Amsterdam, and Tokyo.

With more than 1,000 successful Azure engagements completed for hundreds of global customers, TCS’ Microsoft Business Unit is one of the most recognized partners in the Microsoft ecosystem. In addition to winning the 2022 Microsoft Partner of the Year for Global SI & Advisory Digital Transformation, Retail & Consumer Goods, SAP on Azure, US Advisory Services, and US Financial Services, it was also recognized in nine other global categories. TCS is an Azure Expert Managed Service Provider, has achieved all 18 Microsoft Gold Competencies, has received a record-setting 17 Microsoft Advanced Specializations, and is a member of the 2021/2022 Inner Circle for Microsoft Business Applications.

“TCS has strengthened its partnership with Microsoft by investing in Azure-specific advanced specializations and joint-GTM activities. Its credible investments in talent enablement and solution creation have bolstered its industry cloud and complex workload transformation capabilities. Enterprise clients have appreciated TCS’ approach to addressing complex requirements and its effort in building strong relationships. These factors have contributed to its positioning as a Leader on Everest Group’s System Integration (SI) Capabilities on Microsoft Azure PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2022,” said Mukesh Ranjan, Vice President, Everest Group.