TCS wins SAP Pinnacle Award in the 'industry solutions go-to-market' category
June 5, 2007

Global Partner Award recognises TCS for exemplary contributions to the SAP user community and ecosystem in 2006

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has bagged the SAP Pinnacle Award in the category 'industry solutions go-to-market for SAP adaptive manufacturing solutions'. SAP Pinnacle Awards are granted to leading SAP partners that have excelled in developing their partnership with SAP and mutual businesses by providing high-quality products, solutions and services to customers.

TCS' nomination for the SAP Pinnacle Award was based on its joint, go-to-market initiative based on a solution called SAP xApps manufacturing, integration, and intelligence (xMII). In TCS, the adaptive manufacturing practice within the plant automation services of the engineering and industrial services (EIS) business unit is responsible for managing SAP xMII-based services and solutions.

N Chandrasekaran, head (global sales and operations), TCS, said, "This award recognises TCS' pioneering efforts in developing and implementing solutions that enable manufacturing enterprises to integrate the shop-floor systems with SAP applications. This partnership aims to help customers embrace the adaptive manufacturing strategy and enhance their manufacturing competitiveness by optimising production resources. This is just the beginning of many collaborative initiatives with SAP that we can successfully take to market."

"SAP commends this year's winners of the SAP Pinnacle Awards, who have excelled in their partnership with SAP and extended the value of SAP applications and services to our joint customers," said Zia Yusuf, executive vice-president, Global Ecosystem and Partner Group, SAP.

"SAP has one of the most extensive global ecosystems in the software industry. We recognise this year's award recipients for the tremendous value they have delivered to the SAP community and ecosystem during the past year. By working with partners such as TCS, SAP is continuing to drive co-innovation and provide further value for our worldwide customer base," Yusuf added.

TCS is a recommended global SAP partner for the implementation and support of its xMII solution. This partnership brings together a comprehensive solution platform from SAP, together with TCS' unique global network delivery model and a rich plant-floor automation solutions expertise. TCS is working closely with SAP on several dimensions to bring adaptive manufacturing solutions that provide value to global manufacturing enterprises. The collaboration with SAP aims to address gaps that exist in the manufacturing IT solution landscape by providing proof of concepts, development of Netweaver-compliant tools and products, industry-specific templates that enable faster implementations as well as 'composite' applications on SAP platforms. TCS is also investing in continuous competency building to support large-scale and global implementations.

TCS has worked closely with SAP to position xMII as an ideal platform for building shop-floor-oriented composites. It also created the first certified composite on xMII — 'RapidSigma'. It has also created a portfolio of modular add-on components on xMII that are capable of being incrementally deployed. TCS and SAP have conducted several joint marketing campaigns to create awareness on adaptive manufacturing based on SAP xMII.

TCS is one of the only Asian consulting companies that are a strategic global services partner of SAP. TCS is a SAP global partner of choice for adaptive manufacturing solutions for the process, life sciences and pharma, and hi-tech verticals. As part of TCS' support to SAP's internal IT globally, it has also established a global development centre in Bangalore to support SAP operations worldwide as well as support SAP managed services. In addition, TCS has invested in SAP business innovation labs with the global centre of excellence — the only partner to do so.