OREANDA-NEWS. February 16, 2012. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading IT services, consulting and business solutions organisation, announced today that it has been honoured by Pegasystems, 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 recognise Pegasystems’ partner organisations that drive customer success by delivering solutions that increase customers’ agility and competitive edge. Specifically, TCS was recognised 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 Pegasystems’ 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 Pegasystems projects.”

TCS began its ‘platinum partnership’ with Pegasystems in 2010 bringing together the breadth and depth of TCS’s domain experience across multiple industries with Pegasystems’ solutions to deliver robust BPM solutions for its clients. The hallmarks of TCS’s 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 honoured 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. “Pegasystems’ industry-leading platform and industry frameworks in conjunction with TCS’s deep domain expertise and industry-leading transformational capabilities and delivery excellence are enabling our clients to improve the efficiency and agility of their IT and business operations and we look forward to a continued strategic relationship with Pegasystems in our quest to help our customers to experience certainty.”