Zebra Technologies Selects TCS to Help Drive IT Agile Transformation and DevSecOps Services

Tata Consultancy Services to Leverage Automation, AI, and DevSecOps to Further Improve Agility, Security, Time-to-Market and Employee Experience

NEW YORK | MUMBAI, November 16, 2021: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting, and business solutions organization, announced a strategic transformation engagement with Zebra Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: ZBRA), a market leader in industry-tailored solutions that make every front-line worker and asset at the edge visible, connected and fully optimized.

Zebra provides an award-winning portfolio of purpose-built hardware, software, services, and solutions that digitize and automate workflows for the retail, manufacturing, transportation and logistics, supply chain, healthcare, and government sectors. It selected TCS to help drive its IT Agile transformation and provide DevSecOps services to continue its focus on innovation. With its contextual knowledge and industry expertise, TCS will play a key role in the end-to-end global agile transformation of Zebra’s IT that supports its systems and applications used by 8,800 employees in 45 countries.

Leveraging automation and artificial intelligence, TCS will incorporate even higher levels of intelligent automation for quicker resolution of issues and an enhanced user experience. The transformed IT operating model will be leaner, more agile, and will support changing business models.

TCS will accelerate Zebra’s adoption of a DevSecOps model across applications, infrastructure, and security services, making the new IT landscape more resilient, secure, and agile. Additionally, TCS will collaborate with Zebra’s IT Innovation Council to identify opportunities for additional innovation with intelligent technologies and for speed-to-market.

"Zebra has been at the forefront of enterprise asset intelligence used in numerous industries, and this agile transformation of our IT operating model supports the company’s growth and transformation objectives to help extend our leadership position,” said Deepak Kaul, Chief Information Officer, Zebra Technology. “We look forward to working with TCS on the global deployment of an intelligent automation and DevSecOps IT operating model to become even more agile and value driven."

"The events over the last 20 months have been a catalyst to companies giving greater importance to enterprise agility and security,” said V Rajanna, Global Head, Technology Business Unit, TCS. “We are delighted to further deepen our relationship with Zebra in this strategic transformation. The new resilient digital core will be better aligned with their business strategy in supporting their future growth."

TCS has worked with Zebra Technologies since 2015, providing a range of services including IT, infrastructure, cybersecurity operations, and product engineering. In recent years, TCS has supported initiatives in embracing digital technologies to reimagine customer and partner experiences. In 2020, TCS helped implement a unified ecommerce platform that offers Zebra partners self-service capabilities, product recommendations and region-specific catalogs.

About Tata Consultancy Services (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 over 50 years. TCS offers a consulting-led, cognitive powered, integrated portfolio of business, technology and engineering services and solutions. 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 528,000 of the world’s best-trained consultants in 46 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $22.2 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021, 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 MSCI Global Sustainability Index and the FTSE4Good Emerging Index. For more information, visit www.tcs.com.