TCS Ranked Among the Top 5 Blockchain Services Providers by HFS Research
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS) has been ranked among the top five providers in the HFS Top 10 for Enterprise Blockchain Services 1 . TCS was ranked number two for its Delivery Footprint and number three for its Vision and Strategy
“Blockchain is enabling collaborative industry models as well as enormous opportunities to innovate across the whole economy. At TCS, we demystify blockchain adoption for our customers with our consulting-driven services and Quartz™ solutions that help organizations across domains create value-based ecosystems by meaningfully leveraging blockchain technologies,” said R Vivekanand, Global Head, Quartz, TCS. “Our positioning in this report is a validation of our strategic focus and comprehensive capabilities in building blockchain platform solutions to drive large scale transformation, across the financial sector, supply chain and logistics, pharma, energy and utilities and e-governance.”
TCS offers a unique value proposition by bringing together its blockchain smart solutions suite, comprehensive portfolio of tools and accelerators, and services, through a consulting-led, integrated framework. This framework empowers customers with a 360-degree view of their blockchain adoption journey. It gives customers the opportunity to leverage TCS’ cross-industry domain knowledge and experience across multiple blockchain platforms, protocols, and partner ecosystems to help accelerate enterprise business transformation.
TCS’ Quartz provides foundational technology, tools, and business components for creating distributed ledger solutions across varied industries. Quartz solutions are designed to enable institutional grade, secure custody, and transaction management for crypto and digital assets, digital identities, and provenance. The Quartz suite of solutions are architected for co-existence, integration, and interoperability, enabling customers to assimilate blockchain technology into their businesses seamlessly.
The solutions support a range of business services including wallet operations, exchange and off-market trading, transfer of cryptocurrencies, token issuance and the entire lifecycle of digital assets, with transaction monitoring, compliance, and audit integrated within each service.
Sam Duncan, Associate Director – Research, HFS, said, “Clients cited TCS’ global delivery footprint, technology expertise and stakeholder management as key strengths that help them drive blockchain adoption. This, alongside their ecosystem vision and investments in the space, including TCS’ Quartz, position them well to support clients in the thriving enterprise blockchain market.”
TCS is a Launch Partner for Microsoft Cloud for Retail
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS) is now a partner for the newly-launched Microsoft Cloud for Retail, expanding its collaboration with the hyperscaler.
TCS will combine its deep industry knowledge, and experience from working with leading retailers worldwide and its multi-horizon cloud transformation framework, to help retail clients accelerate their growth and transformation journeys using Microsoft Cloud for Retail. Microsoft Cloud for Retail is a secure industryspecific cloud that brings together various Microsoft technologies, linked by a common data model to connect experiences across the end-to-end shopper journey with integrated and intelligent capabilities.
TCS is a Microsoft Gold Partner and Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Service Partner, recognized for its expertise in delivering the highest quality of service on Azure. It offers a comprehensive set of end-to-end services and intellectual property such as TCS Optumera™, its award-winning AI-powered retail optimization platform, and a host of other accelerators on the retail cloud. TCS’ large global team of Microsoft-certified specialists will help clients harness the power of AI, automation, and cloud to provide greater visibility and control of data, uncover deep insights, design dynamic personalized experiences, and drive growth.
TCS will also use its Pace Ports™, a global network of co-innovation hubs that bring together a collaborative ecosystem of startups, technology partners, and academia to spur innovation.
“Retailers that make better use of customer data and insights are able to respond faster to changing consumer needs and adapt to the rapidly evolving market,” said Shankar Narayanan, Business Group Head, Retail Cluster, TCS. “This expanded collaboration will help our retail clients accelerate their transformation agenda with Microsoft Cloud for Retail and allow them to achieve greater responsiveness, adaptability and purpose-led growth.”
“We are pleased to welcome TCS as a Microsoft Cloud for Retail partner. Together we will deliver innovative solutions to help retailers address their most pressing challenges, drive resilience and realize growth,” said Shelley Bransten, Corporate Vice President, WW Retail & Consumer Goods Industries, Microsoft. “We look forward to collaborating with TCS to bring future-first Microsoft Cloud for Retail solutions and services to retailers around the world."
TCS’ growing list of retail client successes, built on Microsoft’s industry-leading technology includes The Walgreens Boots Alliance, and UK-based retailers Marks & Spencer and Sainsbury’s.
TCS’ Microsoft Business Unit works with customers worldwide to accelerate their multi-horizon cloud transformation journeys. Its large and growing pool of consultants have led some of the biggest IT transformation programs and pioneering technology initiatives for over 100 clients in the retail industry. TCS recently won the 2021 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award for Azure Intelligent Cloud in France, the Dynamics 365 Field Service in the US, and was named a Finalist for Microsoft’s US Retail and Consumer Goods Partner of the Year.
Wipro Awarded the Palo Alto Networks EMEA Systems Integrator Partner of the year
Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO), a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company, today announced that it has received the Palo Alto Networks EMEA Systems Integrator Partner of the year for 2021.
Announced during the Palo Alto Networks Ignite '21 Partner Summit, these annual awards are presented to an elite group of Palo Alto Networks partners that, over the past 12 months, have excelled in the following areas:
– Performance: Bookings that partners initiate, the pipeline they build, innovative new
services launched and net new customers added.
– Enablement: Number of Palo Alto Networks technical, pre-sales, sales and post-sales
training courses and certifications completed. |
– Engagement: Nominated by the Palo Alto Networks team for exceptional engagement
with Palo Alto Networks and our customers
Wipro provides cybersecurity consulting, design, implementation, and managed services to organizations on Next-Generation Firewalls, Prisma Access, Prisma SD-WAN, Prisma Cloud & Cortex XSOAR solutions. In addition, as a Certified Professional Services Partner, Wipro has expanded Palo Alto Network’s EMEA business by 400 per cent in FY21 over FY20. This was possible due to a partnership that helped organizations harness technology to drive change through workplace transformation and network modernization.
Manish Garg, Head of Europe – Cloud & Infrastructure Services, Wipro Ltd., said, “We are honoured to be recognized as Palo Alto Networks’ ‘EMEA Systems Integrator Partner of the year – 2021’. This significant recognition underscores our expertise and ongoing commitment to help customers drive transformation that delivers a superior user experience with improved agility, resiliency and efficiency yet highly secured in modern digital era. Through our partnership with Palo Alto Networks, Wipro offers #WANFreedom, an end-to-end managed SDWAN solution. We have also launched Wipro's Managed SASE solution powered by Palo Alto Networks technology which combines a global high-performance network with the next gen security solution to drive digital transformation in Post Pandemic world.”
John Hermans, Head of Europe – Cybersecurity & Risk Services, Wipro Ltd., said, “I would like to thank the Palo Alto Networks team for their constant support, stewardship and unyielding trust in our relationship. Wipro's differentiated service offerings on Palo Alto Networks technology give us an edge against our competition. We are elated and proud to win this prestigious award.
“At Palo Alto Networks, our partners share our vision of building tomorrow’s cybersecurity today and play a critical role in securing the tech-enabled future of the enterprise,” said Don Jones, senior vice president, Ecosystems at Palo Alto Networks. “Organizations rely on Palo Alto Networks technology and our trusted partners to bring the services and solutions that offer flexibility, innovation and security. As we rise to the challenge of modern security, we are innovating against threats and digitally transforming at an unprecedented rate. Being ready for what comes next means being willing to see the world differently. We’re proud to recognize Wipro Ltd., on their Palo Alto Networks EMEA Systems Integrator Partner of the year for delivering valuable business outcomes and helping our mutual customers protect their digital way of life.”
BCPL Railway Infra bags order of 25KV OHE at Bikaner Division of North Western Railway
BCPL Railway Infrastructure Limited is delighted to update its esteemed stakeholders that the Company secures order of 25KV OHE at Suratgarh Thermal Power Station of Bikaner Division of North Western Railway.
Marking its presence on PAN India, the Company has received 25KV OHE work and associated modification in connection with providing Railway Track linking at Suratgarh supercritical Thermal Power Station of Bikaner Division of North Western Railway comprising of project cost of 7111.54 million.
Commenting on the same, Mr. Aparesh Nandi, Chairman said, “We at BCPL Railway Infrastructure Limited are pleased to inform our stakeholders on our recent order intake at Suratgarh supercritical Thermal Power Station of Bikaner Division of North Western Railway. The value of this order is #111.54 million and we are quite optimistic about similar projects to come on PAN India basis.”
“We, at BCPL, are confident that we would be able to offer our unparalleled services to the Bikaner Division of North Western Railway, Jaipur, Rajasthan in the same way as we have been serving the Indian Railways for more than 3 decades now and have started giving services to Indian Army. We are quite optimistic about the pipeline of orders in the coming months and we expect to end the year on robust orderbook.”