SEATTLE, May 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), , a leading global IT services, business solutions and outsourcing firm, today announced plans with Microsoft Corporation to deliver Business Intelligence and Performance Management (BIPM) solutions to global companies. The announcement was made at the first-ever Microsoft BI Conference being held in Seattle, Washington at which TCS is a platinum sponsor. TCS' BIPM practice experts will be showcasing solution accelerators based on the Microsoft platform and will also be presenting a breakout session on creating agile, adaptable and efficient enterprises.

"The unique confluence of Microsoft's technologies such as SQL Server, Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 and the 2007 Office system and the elaborate architectural framework offered by TCS provides customers with a solution ecosystem supporting organizational agility, efficiency and adaptability," said Dr. Santosh Mohanty, Global Head, BIPM Practice, TCS. "TCS has an aggressive plan to grow this practice by doubling the consultant base in the next two years and expects to achieve accelerated double digit growth using Microsoft technologies."

"We're pleased to partner with TCS, a leading IT services, solutions and outsourcing firm to enable high business performance across the globe," said Bill Baker, Distinguished Engineer and General Manager, Office BI Applications at Microsoft Corp. "TCS' investment to expand their delivery of BI and performance management solutions based on Microsoft BI, including SQL Server 2005 and the 2007 Office system, will enable many more of our mutual customers to drive truly pervasive BI and performance management."

TCS' BIPM practice has a holistic view of Business Intelligence and Performance Management. TCS believes that 'Enterprise Intelligence' will drive business outcomes if powered by process integration and business innovation. In a similar term, setting targets and meeting those targets on a consistent basis requires a complete alignment of process, performance and prediction. TCS has created a service oriented framework "SOLAR"(C) to strategize and deliver the BIPM solution for the enterprise. The SOLAR framework brings the right alignment of 'Integration, Intelligence and Innovation' and 'Process, Performance and Prediction'. The TCS BIPM practice currently has 7,000 consultants and contributes to ten percent of TCS's global revenues.

TCS was recently positioned by Gartner in the leaders quadrant in the 'Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Services, North America, 2007'(i) report.

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About Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, business solutions and outsourcing organization that delivers real results to global businesses, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT and IT-enabled services delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model(TM), recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development.

A part of the Tata Group, India's largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 89,000 of the world's best trained IT consultants in 47 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $4.3 billion for fiscal year ended 31 March, 2007 and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India. For more information, visit us at http://www.tcs.com/.

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(i) Gartner Research "Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Services,

North America, 2007" by Alex Soejarto, Bill Hostmann. March 13, 2007

CONTACT: Mike McCabe of Tata Consultancy Services, +1-646-313-4594,
m.mccabe@tcs.com

Web site: http://www.tcs.com/