Thursday, 21 February 2008

TCS to Provide IT Services to Chrysler LLC

India’s biggest IT services and business solutions firm, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) a has signed a multi-year contract with Chrysler LLC to provide a comprehensive portfolio of IT services.

Leveraging TCS’ Global Network Delivery Model™, TCS said that it will deliver application maintenance and support services to Chrysler. The IT services initiative will encompass a portion of the functional areas within Chrysler, such as Sales and Marketing and Shared Services.

“This growing trusted partnership is a testament to TCS’ competencies and capabilities which continue to help the customer in its business transformation by providing innovative IT services scalable to their needs,” said N. Chandrasekaran, executive director and chief operating officer of Tata Consultancy Services.

“The expertise and in-depth knowledge of the automotive industry and Chrysler’s business, coupled with our ability to deliver certainty of results will provide sustained value to Chrysler.”

TCS’ Global Network Delivery Model is a collaborative framework of people, processes and infrastructure. The model taps on TCS’ global intellectual assets of tools, methodologies and products to help customers reduce implementation time, realize benefits quicker and achieve business goals.

According to TCS, the automotive industry is one of the focus markets for the TCS Manufacturing vertical which accounted for 15.1% of TCS’ FY 2007 4.3 billion global revenues.

TCS provides services to many of the automotive OEMs and tier one companies in North America, Europe and Japan. These services are provided across the entire automotive value stream including product development, manufacturing, supply chain and customer experience areas.