OREANDA-NEWS. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS) a leading IT services, consulting and business solutions organisation, announced that it has been positioned as leader across multiple verticals in engineering and R&D services by Zinnov Management Consulting (Zinnov) in its report “Global R&D Service Providers (GSPR) Rating 2013”.

Zinnov, a leading globalisation and market expansion advisory firm, launched its rating of global R&D service providers across geographies. The study titled 'Global R&D Service Providers (GSPR) Rating 2013', is an annual study to assist business leaders spearheading global engineering initiatives make right decisions in partner selection across geographies. Zinnov Management Consulting has analysed more than 30 service providers for this rating.

TCS's overall leadership position on the “GSPR rating 2013” is a result of its overall score based on Zinnov's relative assessment across multiple dimensions, including human capital, product development capabilities, scale, ecosystem linkages, infrastructure and innovation / IP creation, non-linear strategy, lab infrastructure and customer relationships. In addition to the overall rating, TCS has also been positioned in the leadership position across the verticals: aerospace, automotive, computer peripherals and storage, construction and heavy machinery, energy, industrial automation, medical devices, semiconductor, telecommunication and transport.

Commenting on the study, Sundararaman Viswanathan, manager, consulting, at Zinnov, notes that “TCS has the most expansive service offering across all the verticals. TCS has had a strong tradition of building deep expertise in the areas where it chooses to invest; keeping with that we see that TCS has built strong capability across mechanical, embedded and software services, invested in unparalleled lab infrastructure and centres of excellence. TCS is one of the few engineering service providers who can deliver on end-to-end product development engagements.”

Regu Ayyaswamy, vice president and global head, engineering and industrial services, said: “We are delighted to be in the leadership position overall and across verticals. This positioning in the Zinnov report reiterates TCS's long-term focus, its strong investments in innovation labs and its application of next-gen technologies across the engineering and R&D services.”