Tata Consultancy Services Ltd and Mercury Interactive Corporation of the US has opened a performance-engineering laboratory to provide customers with advanced services, products and technologies to effectively manage performance lifecycle of mission-critical applications, reports PTI. The lab combines best practices from TCS' global Performance Engineering' Services with leading application management and performance testing products, and leverages products from Mercury business availability centre and Mercury Performance Centre, a TCS release said here on  Tuesday.

The lab was opened in Bloomington, Minnesota, it said. The services from the lab include application performance and end-user management, remote scripting and monitoring. Additional value-added services in capacity planning and design engineering space are also planned in the coming quarters, it added. It would serve North American geography where TCS "generates 60 per cent of its global revenue and would focus on research and development related to technology and tools performance evaluation and benchmarking, it added.