Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise* partners with TCS to digitally transform their products to be IP-centric and Cloud ready

The digital platforms to foster an agile business environment, and driving digital marketing initiatives to significantly elevate and enrich the customer experience.

PARIS | MUMBAI, June 06, 2018: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, today announced the expansion of its strategic partnership with Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE), a leading provider of On-premise and Cloud-hosted Communications and Networking solutions for small, medium and large enterprises.

TCS and ALE have a multidimensional partnership spanning across R&D, IT, and Business Process Services. TCS has been ALE’s partner of choice for many strategic initiatives such as co-creating next generation unified communication platforms, rolling out digital platforms to foster an agile business environment, and driving digital marketing initiatives to significantly elevate and enrich the customer experience.

ALE has partnered with TCS, to boost the digital transformation of their product portfolio and make them cloud ready, fully IP-centric and virtualized. This will enable their next generation enterprise customers compete in a digital world where instant enterprise collaboration and unified multi-channel communication are increasingly becoming key to success in the marketplace. As part of this relationship, TCS and ALE will also collaborate on creating new capabilities and features to the Unified Communication platform like adding new vertical solutions to deliver exponential value for ALE customers across industry verticals.

TCS will also help ALE accelerate product innovation through continuous delivery powered by DevOps and enhanced operational excellence. The cognitive capabilities of TCS’s Intelligent 360 Degree Assurance™ platform will be used to bring adaptive test assurance by leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve product quality and achieve faster time to market.

“ALE is a valued partner for TCS and we are very excited to build upon our partnership with ALE in the product engineering domain. TCS is a recognized global leader in Digital Transformation Services and we are committed to bring our best talent, tools and frameworks to help ALE on their digital journey towards reshaping their products harnessing the power of new transformational digital technologies. We are keen to continue investing in the partnership to support ALE in their vision and bring innovative solutions faster to the market,” said V. Rajanna, Vice President and Global Head, Technology Business Unit, TCS.

Nicolas Brunel, EVP, Communication Business Division, ALE said, “TCS with their strong expertise in Product Engineering Domain is the right partner to accelerate product innovation powered by leading edge digital technologies. This partnership will enable ALE to to meet the evolving needs of our customers and empower them to compete in the digital era.”

About ALE

Our mission is to make everything connect to create the customized technology experiences customers need. From your office, the cloud or in combination, we deliver networking and communications that work for your people, processes and customers.

A heritage of innovation and dedication to customer success has made ALE an essential provider of enterprise networking, communications and services to over 830,000 customers worldwide operating under the Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise brand. With global reach and local focus, more than 2200 employees and 2900+ partners serve over 50 countries.

For more information, visit our web site at: https://www.al-enterprise.com/. For ongoing news visit our Newsroom, Blog, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

About Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS)

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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