TCS Demonstrates Significant Commitment to Building Expertise in Oracle Products

TCS achieves substantial number of certified implementation specialists for Oracle’s High Value Growth Products

Mumbai, September 19, 2013: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading IT services, consulting, and business solutions organization, today, announced that it has been recognized with the FY13 Certified Implementation Specialist Leader award from Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) for its commitment to customer enablement by achieving Oracle product certifications. The award signifies TCS’ commitment to implementing Oracle solutions on a large scale and recognizes TCS for certifying the largest number of new implementation specialists, more than 500, in Oracle’s high value growth products during fiscal year 2013 (June 1, 2012 - May 31, 2013).

TCS has a long standing relationship with Oracle, dating back to 1987. Today, the company is a Diamond level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork. With more than 15,000 Oracle certified specialists across a variety of different product and specialty areas, TCS’ specialists are equipped with the tools they need to develop and implement end-to-end solutions (such as Oracle on Oracle) for their customers. These trained specialists are supported by TCS’ Centers of Excellence — eleven dedicated to Oracle technologies alone — which serve joint TCS Oracle customers in Asia Pacific, Europe, South Africa, the Middle East and North America.

“We are committed to delivering comprehensive, industry leading services to our customers and we consider our relationship with Oracle and our own consultant certification program, to be key components of that strategy,” said Sridhar Bakshi, Global Head, Oracle, TCS. “We are proud to say that we are leaders in product certification. This demonstrates our commitment to being a valued partner for Oracle and ensures that our customers around the world are equipped with the Oracle solutions they need to support business growth.”

“The partner enablement and certification process provides Oracle customers the reassurance that their consultants have met and passed stringent testing requirements in specific products,” said Andy Bailey, Senior Vice President, Strategic Alliances, Oracle. “TCS is committed to ensuring their consultants are certified in Oracle’s product suite, including our newest technologies, as they continue to expand their global Oracle delivery capabilities with a constant focus on delivering significant results to customers.”

About Oracle PartnerNetwork
Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized is the latest version of Oracle's partner program that provides partners with tools to better develop, sell and implement Oracle solutions. OPN Specialized offers resources to train and support specialized knowledge of Oracle products and solutions and has evolved to recognize Oracle's growing product portfolio, partner base and business opportunity. Key to the latest enhancements to OPN is the ability for partners to differentiate through Specializations. Specializations are achieved through competency development, business results, expertise and proven success. To find out more visit http://www.oracle.com/partners.

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 290,000 of the world’s best-trained consultants in 46 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $11.6 billion for year ended March 31, 2013 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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