TCS Receives Pegasystems’ Partner Excellence Award for Excellence in Market Development

TCS Lauded for Delivery of Transformational Consulting Solutions and Thought Leadership

Mumbai, February 14, 2012: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS) a leading IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, announced, today, that it has been honored by Pegasystems, Inc., a leader in Business Process Management (BPM) and software for customer centricity, as a recipient of the company’s first annual Partner Excellence Awards. The awards recognize Pegasystems’ partner organizations that drive customer success by delivering solutions that increase customers’ agility and competitive edge. Specifically, TCS was recognized for Excellence in Market Development. The awards were presented at a ceremony during Pegasystems’ global sales conference in January.

“Our alliance partners are a critical part of Pega’s global team, as they are the teams on the ground at many customer sites,” said John Barone, Vice President, Global Strategic Alliances, Pegasystems. “We congratulate TCS as they have demonstrated consistent excellence in their Pega projects.”

TCS began its Platinum Partnership with Pegasystems in 2010 bringing together the breadth and depth of TCS’ domain experience across multiple industries with Pegasystems’ solutions to deliver robust business process management solutions for its clients. The hallmarks of TCS’ offerings have included an array of end-to-end consulting services as well as application development and outsourcing, including solution architecting and development, integration and migration, and maintenance and support. TCS has also provided extensive implementation experience across industry verticals.

“We are honored to receive this prestigious Partner Excellence Award from Pegasystems – an industry leader that has been a true strategic partner,” said Suresh Muthuswami, President, Insurance and Healthcare, TCS. “Pega’s industry-leading platform and industry frameworks in conjunction with TCS’ deep domain expertise, industry leading transformational capabilities and delivery excellence enable our clients to improve the efficiency and agility of their IT and business operations and we look forward to a continued strategic relationship with Pega in our quest to help our customers to experience certainty.”

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.