TCS Ranked as a Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SAP Implementation Services Ecosystem 2016 Vendor Assessment

NEW YORK | MUMBAI, May 11, 2016: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, today announced that it has been recognized as a ‘Leader’ in the IDC Marketscape report, ‘Worldwide SAP Implementation Services Ecosystem 2016 Vendor Assessment.’

The IDC Marketscape report includes analysis of the 13 largest SAP application systems integrators (SIs) with broad portfolios spanning IDC's research coverage and with global scale. IDC divided potential key measures for success into two primary categories: capabilities and services aligned to customer needs, and how well the vendor's future strategy aligns with what customers will require in three to five years.

“It is an honor for TCS to be recognized as a leader in the IDC MarketScape report, and gratifying to see that our clients rated us highly for delivering business outcomes and providing valuable insights,” said Akhilesh Tiwari, Global Head of TCS’ SAP Practice. “We continue to co-innovate with SAP and invest in next generation technologies to guide our clients as they digitally transform their businesses. I want to thank our clients who put their trust in us, and our TCS SAP Practice consultants who consistently deliver outstanding work to our customers.”

TCS was also recently awarded the SAP Pinnacle Award for Run SAP Partner of the Year in 2016, for the fourth year in a row. TCS provides end-to-end SAP services from application infrastructure management to strategic business consulting. It advises clients as they move to digital business models and is aligned with SAP’s latest technologies and product roadmaps, supporting adoption with business insights and industry-specific best practices and migration strategies. TCS has more than 15,000 dedicated SAP consultants, with more than 550 SAP projects around the world that serve as world-class proof points of the results generated for clients.

About IDC MarketScape
This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of the SAP-based systems integration services ecosystem through the IDC MarketScape model. This assessment discusses both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that explain success in the SAP implementation services ecosystem. This IDC MarketScape covers a variety of vendors participating in the SAP implementation services ecosystem space. The evaluation is based on a comprehensive and rigorous framework that assesses vendors relative to the criteria and one another and highlights the factors expected to be the most influential for success in the market in both the short term and the long term.

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, BPO, infrastructure, engineering and assurance services. This is delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model™ (GNDM), recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the Tata group, India’s largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 226,000 of the world’s best-trained consultants in 42 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $8.2 billion for year ended March 31, 2011 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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