OREANDA-NEWS. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading IT services, consulting and business solutions organisation, has been recognised by Ovum as a Leader in the Ovum Decision Matrix: Selecting an Outsourced Testing Service Provider report.

TCS Assurance Services addresses both business and quality challenges for global clients, empowering organisations across domains to optimise overheads, reduce time to market and improve customer satisfaction. TCS' offering includes innovative products such as its Intelligent Testing System (ITS), which allows clients to automate testing across the entire lifecycle.

Thomas Reuner, principal analyst, Ovum, commented: "With a broad set of differentiating IP, TCS has proactively invested in creating industry specific application software testing assets that enable the delivery of high quality IT applications to its customers. TCS stands out as Leader in the Ovum Decision Matrix due to the breadth of its offerings, delivery of business results, strong customer relationships, investments in laboratories and Centers of Excellence and its proprietary IP such as the TCS Integrated Assessment Framework for Assurance (TIARA (TIARATM) and the MasterCraft integration platform."

Siva Ganesan, vice president and global head of assurance services, TCS, commented: "Quality assurance and testing services are becoming increasingly vital to organisations across all sectors. Our services allow clients to protect their brands and manage risks effectively as they embrace new technologies, helping them to provide world class customer experience across digital and traditional channels. Recognition by Ovum as a Leader in their first ever Ovum Decision Matrix for outsourced testing services is testimony to TCS' leadership in providing innovative testing solutions and services to meet the continuously evolving challenges in the global marketplace."

To be recognised as a Leader, vendors must show how they can embed testing to business processes and move it to a more strategic position. Ovum analysed 14 of the participating vendors for their capabilities across a number of criteria including innovation, execution capability, partner ecosystem and testing roadmap.