Tata Consultancy Services expands global strategic partnership with BEA Systems
March 3, 2005

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BOMBAY: TCS.bo, NSI: TCS.NS), a global IT services provider, and BEA Systems (NASDAQ:BEAS), a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, today announced an expanded partnership. As part of their collaborative effort, the relationship provides for TCS to help deliver consulting services for BEA solutions across regions already trained and educated on the latest release of BEA products. This partnership is designed to help enable customers to deploy BEA products quickly, while helping to position TCS with its BEA practice.

With more than 30 years of leadership in the IT services and consulting industry, TCS has firmly established its position as one of Asia's largest IT services provider. For the past five years, TCS has provided global support and IT services expertise for BEA customers. It provides IT services including integration, migration and development of BEA-powered solutions. BEA currently provides TCS with its enterprise infrastructure software platform for TCS products such as Quartz, Apollo, eTreasury and IIMS.

"TCS is committed to providing our customers with innovative and high quality services," said Abijit Mazumder, TCS. "This demonstrates the commitment BEA and TCS share to the success of our mutual customers. This partnership is an important part of our drive to help these customers achieve greater business results by helping to maximise their efficiency."

"TCS is among the top software integration partners currently implementing service-oriented architectures on the BEA WebLogic Platform(tm)," said Bobby Napiltonia, vice president of global channels and alliances, BEA Systems. "BEA award-winning technologies and TCS' quality service help provide a solid foundation for development, deployment and management of our joint customers' business application infrastructures."