Nexus 2018 Illuminate Awards Recognize TCS for Comprehensive Solutions and Services it Provides from Latin America to Clients in the United States and Europe
SAN FRANCISCO | MUMBAI, July 5, 2018: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, has been named as the ‘Nearshore Company of the Year’ in the third edition of the Nexus Illuminate Awards, which celebrate excellence in services.
TCS was recognized for its expansive operations in Latin America, which consist of 6,000 professionals providing a comprehensive range of services to clients in global markets, including the United States and Europe.
“This award is the result of our commitment to offer a high level of value from our operations in Latin America to our global clients in their digital transformation journeys towards becoming a Business 4.0 enterprise,” said Rajeev Gupta, Director of Latin America Nearshore Operations, TCS. “We are honored to be recognized at the 2018 Nexus Illuminate awards, which celebrate the work of a rapidly evolving industry.”
“We have been growing steadily year over year in the region, because we have established a solid team and continue to digitally train our workforce and recruit new talent in the eight countries from which we operate,” added Marcelo Wurmann, CEO, TCS Latin America. “We will continue to invest in the region and our Business 4.0 framework, where digital technologies such as cloud, automation, agility, business intelligence, and robotics are having a significant impact in our clients’ businesses and act as key competitive differentiators.”
TCS, which was recognized as a Top Employer in Latin America for the fourth year in a row, recently expanded in the region, with the opening of a new center in Brazil that can cater to 4,000 employees, and an extension of its offices in Colombia. It is also engaged in a major community drive to train up 190,000 STEM professionals across Latin America.
“We want to congratulate all the winners, including TCS,” said Kirk Laughlin, General Manager, Nearshore Americas. “The judges were very impressed with the companies’ operations, which brings first class infrastructure to Latin America. Each year the standard is set higher.”
The winners of the Nexus Illuminate Awards were selected by the editorial team of Nearshore Americas’s Media Group, and the award was presented to TCS during a special Nexus 2018 ceremony in San Francisco, California. In addition, three TCS executives participated as panelists at sessions titled, 'Guadalajara and its benefits for IT companies' and 'The State of Nearshore Delivery as Digital Commands Higher Performance'.
About Tata Consultancy Services
Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that has been partnering with many of the world’s largest businesses in their transformation journeys for the last fifty years. TCS offers a consulting-led, Cognitive powered, integrated portfolio of IT, Business & Technology Services, and engineering. This is delivered through its unique Location Independent Agile delivery model, recognized as a benchmark of excellence in software development.
A part of the Tata group, India's largest multinational business group, TCS has over 394,000 of the world’s best-trained consultants in 46 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $19.09 billion for year ended March 31, 2018 and is listed on the BSE (formerly Bombay Stock Exchange) and the NSE (National Stock Exchange) in India. TCS' proactive stance on climate change and award winning work with communities across the world have earned it a place in leading sustainability indices such as the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), MSCI Global Sustainability Index and the FTSE4Good Emerging Index. For more information, visit us at www.tcs.com.
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About Nexus 2018
Nearshore Nexus (@nearshorenexus) was founded in New York City in 2011, and quickly established itself as the premiere conference for the advancement of Nearshore services. The Nexus conference moved to the San Francisco bay area in 2016 to capitalize on the increasing interest by Silicon Valley firms to expand their relationships with information technology and communications partners (ICT) across the Americas. The Nexus conference supports attendants in understanding how to build strong outsourcing partnerships in the Nearshore Americas region – in software development, business process services and customer service. Visit http://nexus2018.com/
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