OREANDA-NEWS. May 10, 2011. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: 523540, NSE: TCS), a leading IT services, consulting and business solutions firm, , announced that Forrester, an independent research firm, cited TCS as a Leader in its March 11, 2011 report titled The Forrester Wave™: Global IT Infrastructure Outsourcing, Q1 2011.

Forrester reviewed 19 service providers across 36 criteria. The criteria were clustered into three categories of current offering, strategy, and market presence. TCS was positioned in the Leader wave for global IT infrastructure outsourcing.

TCS received the overall highest customer reference scores out of all the vendors in the analysis. According to the research firm, “TCS has solid global distribution of clients, along with solid marks for complementary consulting capabilities as well as solid ecosystem participation. TCS also has a very solid strategy for IT infrastructure management including a particularly strong vision for planned enhancements.”

“We are glad to be recognised as a leader in this report,” said PR Krishnan, vice president and global head, TCS Infrastructure Services. “TCS’ Infrastructure Services transforms customers businesses with our analytics-led automation framework by providing greater transparency, flexibility and service excellence. Our transformation capabilities and unique value proposition continue to deliver improved service levels across our customers’ value chain.”

TCS provides a complete spectrum of IT infrastructure services to help customers build and manage a highly available, reliable IT infrastructure and adapt to new technologies.  TCS’ infrastructure offerings include IT Service Desk, Data Center Management Services, End User Computing Services, Application Management Services, Converged Network Services, Managed Security Services, Enterprise System Management and IT Service Management.