CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
30 November 2004
Company News
Tata Consultancy Services Launches Performance Engineering Lab Leveraging Mercury Offerings
Tata Consultancy Services and Mercury Interactive Corporation announced the opening of TCS' US-based performance engineering lab at its operations center in Bloomington, Minnesota. The lab will provide customers with advanced services, products, and technologies to effectively manage the performance lifecycle of mission-critical applications.
The lab combines best practices from TCS' global Performance Engineering Services with leading application management and performance testing products. Leveraging products from the Mercury Business Availability CenterT and Mercury Performance CenterT, services from the lab include application performance and end-user management, remote scripting and monitoring, and application performance testing and tuning. Additional value-added services in the capacity planning and design engineering space are planned in the coming quarters.
The performance engineering lab was previewed for customers on October 22 nd , highlighting its value as a one-stop shop for performance engineering services from TCS. The lab will serve the North American geography where TCS generates 60 percent of its global revenue, and draw on best practices both from TCS' Performance Engineering Lab in Mumbai and partner labs around the world.
The lab will have a focus on research and development related to technology and tools performance evaluation and benchmarking, and will serve as a learning and demonstration facility for the TCS teams in its U.S. operations.
"Our customers demand a best-in-class set of services and products to ensure that the performance of their mission-critical applications meet their business requirements," said Arup Gupta, president of TCS Americas. "Mercury's leadership in application performance management and BTO is a strong complement to our expertise in performance engineering."
"The performance and availability of mission-critical applications equals the performance and availability of the business for our customers," said Christopher Lochhead, chief marketing officer at Mercury. "We are pleased that TCS, a leading provider of IT consulting services has committed to working with our joint customers to optimize the business value of IT."
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