OREANDA-NEWS. Santa Clara & Mumbai: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading IT services, consulting and business solutions firm, today announced that it has been designated as a Leader in Enterprise Mobility Services by Forrester Research, Inc., a leading independent research company, in its report The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Mobility Services, Q1 2013.

Among the attributes cited in the report are the company’s end-to-end enterprise mobility solutions which are strongest in technology and technology development, its innovation in enterprise mobility in areas such as transportation, energy, retail, healthcare, and insurance, and its strong pool of technical developers and integration experts.

The Forrester Wave™ reports evaluate vendors based on criteria set through past research, user need assessments, vendor strategy, and expert interviews. After examining all components, a set of initial evaluation criteria is developed. In this particular report, Forrester Research used this information to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of 13 enterprise mobility providers and users. The 13 companies were evaluated based on 15 criteria including: current offering, strategy, and market presence.

“Mobility is transforming the world around us, and at TCS we are well-positioned to serve our global customers’ enterprise mobility needs,” said Dr Satya Ramaswamy, vice president and global head of mobility in TCS. “We believe that our market presence and global customer adoption is a clear indication of the value of our strategy and offerings in this space. We have created this new world class service-line within TCS in an entrepreneurial fashion and have scaled it rapidly to meet the needs of our global customers.”

TCS’ mobility unit is headquartered within the TCS Customer Collaboration Center in Santa Clara, at the heart of Silicon Valley, and has delivery centres around the world. TCS’ mobility experts serve more than 140 global customers located in all major geographies.

TCS provides a comprehensive set of enterprise mobility products and services as well as wide-ranging eco-system partnerships that leverage the power of today’s mobile devices to transform enterprise business processes and customer interfaces.

TCS’ enterprise mobility products offered in licensed or cloud-based business models include:

Foundational platforms – platforms to develop, test and deploy enterprise and consumer mobile applications across multiple mobile platforms

Horizontal mobility products – mobility products that could be used by enterprises regardless of their industry

Vertical mobility products – mobility products that are specific to particular industries that have been developed leveraging TCS’ deep domain knowledge in these industries

TCS’ enterprise mobility service offerings include:

Mobility strategy and architecture development services for both enterprise and consumer application systems

Mobile application development and maintenance services, including user experience design as well as the development of applications and mobility middleware across all major industry platforms

Mobile application testing services including functional, performance, security and usability testing,

Mobile app store and ad-network services

Mobile analytics services