Heidelberg, Germany / Mumbai, India, September 29, 2021 – SNP Schneider-Neureither & Partner SE, a world-leading provider of software solutions for digital transformation processes and automated data migrations in the SAP environment, and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization have entered into a global partnership agreement, aimed at driving business transformations for global organizations.

Through this strategic global partnership, SNP and TCS will jointly conceptualize, build, and help enterprises transform through an automated and software-based approach by using SNP CrystalBridge®, a data transformation platform. TCS will leverage its contextual knowledge and expertise in digital technologies to augment SNP CrystalBridge® and accelerate client business transformation journeys.

Akhilesh Tiwari, Global Head, Enterprise Application Services, TCS, said, “Together, TCS and SNP have delivered many customer successes and we are delighted to expand this partnership further. TCS’ intellectual property and SNP’s software combined with our collective knowledge create a unique competitive differentiation and will enable measurable business outcomes for customers as well as accelerate their business transformation journeys and drive purpose-led growth.”

Michael Eberhardt, CEO of SNP, adds: “We have worked with TCS successfully for various customers in the pharmaceutical, manufacturing and mining industries. Now we are consolidating our cooperation through a strategic global partnership. This allows us to bundle our expertise even better, which benefits our customers worldwide. Our software optimally complements TCS’ service offering, and we are proud that TCS will use our CrystalBridge® software for SAP transformation projects. Together, we will support global companies in business transformations such as mergers and acquisitions, cloud migration, or SAP S/4HANA implementations. We have strong interest from the market and look forward to collaborating on many future projects.”

“The partnership with TCS is another important step in our partner strategy,” emphasizes Lutz Lambrecht, Vice President of SNP Global Partner Management. “Alliances with strong partners help customers worldwide to implement very complex IT and business transformations quickly and securely. But they also ensure that we will be there to support them in the face of future challenges. After all, our long-term goal is to share knowledge and work together with our partners on new solutions using our platform approach, so that we can continue to meet changing requirements in the future.”

TCS helps customers evaluate newer digital offerings such as SAP S/4HANA, SAP® Customer Experience solutions, SAP SuccessFactors® solutions, SAP Ariba® solutions, and SAP® Business Technology Platform, to define their roadmap, architecture and strategy. TCS’ innovation and demo centers in Cincinnati-US, Paris-France, Mumbai-India and Tokyo-Japan help customers gain a first-hand experience of SAP’s new products and global innovations through a digital transformation ecosystem. TCS leverages its intellectual property and assets such as TCS Enterprise Navigator, TCS Crystallus and TCS ConvertCore as part of a comprehensive approach to modernize enterprise businesses, helping them shape business ecosystems and adopt new business models in their perpetual growth and transformation journeys.

Over the next few months, TCS and SNP plan to host a virtual webinar to showcase their joint capabilities and customer case studies.

About SNP

SNP is a world-leading provider of software for managing complex digital transformation processes. Instead of traditional IT consulting in the ERP environment, SNP offers an automated approach using specially developed software: The Data Transformation Platform CrystalBridge® and the SNP BLUEFIELD approach allow companies to restructure and modernize their IT landscapes much more quickly and securely as well as migrate to new systems or cloud environments more securely. This gives customers clear qualitative advantages while at the same time reducing their time and costs.

The SNP Group has around 1,600 employees worldwide. The company is headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany, and generated revenue of around EUR 144 million in the 2020 fiscal year. It serves multinational companies in all industries. SNP was established in 1994, went public in 2000, and has been listed in the Prime Standard segment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since August 2014 (ISIN DE0007203705). Since 2017, the company has been trading as a European company (Societas Europaea/SE).

More information is available at www.snpgroup.com.

About Tata Consultancy Services

Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that has been partnering with many of the world’s largest businesses in their transformation journeys for over 50 years. TCS offers a consulting-led, cognitive powered, integrated portfolio of business, technology and engineering services and solutions. This is delivered through its unique Location Independent Agile delivery model, recognized as a benchmark of excellence in software development.

A part of the Tata group, India’s largest multinational business group, TCS has over 500,000 of the world’s best-trained consultants in 46 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $22.2 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021 and is listed on the BSE (formerly Bombay Stock Exchange) and the NSE (National Stock Exchange) in India. TCS’ proactive stance on climate change and award-winning work with communities across the world have earned it a place in leading sustainability indices such as the MSCI Global Sustainability Index and the FTSE4Good Emerging Index. For more information, visit www.tcs.com.

This article is sponsored by SNP

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TCS, a leading global IT services, consulting, and business solutions organisation, has been a partner of SAP for over 20 years now, helping customers transform into future-ready enterprises enabled by a robust set of solutions and SAP experts. TCS’s global SAP experts in 46 countries steeped in industry, domain, and contextual customer knowledge enable the consulting firm to drive innovation and growth to its customers. Moreover, having innovation and demo centers in Cincinnati-US, Paris-France, Mumbai-India, and Tokyo-Japan allows TCS to let customers experience first-hand SAP’s new portfolio and global innovations.

The two enterprises deepening strategic partnership is reflected in TCS’s recent recognition by Everest Group and the firm’s support on RISE with SAP.

Tata Consultancy Services: Leader in SAP S/4HANA Services

TCS emerged as a Leader in the Everest Group PEAK Matrix for SAP S/4HANA Services for its notable investments in Intellectual Property, accelerators that fast-track transformations, and strong partner ecosystem. The Everest Group PEAK Matrix is a proprietary framework for assessing the relative market success and overall capability of service providers based on Performance, Experiences, Ability, and Knowledge. 

“Our deep domain knowledge, technology expertise and continued investments in IP and assets along with a strong cloud and technology partner ecosystem are helping accelerate our customers’ digital transformation journeys. This Leadership position is a recognition of our future-facing strategy of harnessing next-generation digital technologies and innovation to deliver a competitive edge to our clients,” said Akhilesh Tiwari, Global Head, Enterprise Application Services, TCS.

In this particular report that assessed 21 service providers focused on SAP S/4HANA services, Tata Consultancy Services was recognised for its outstanding capabilities in driving complex implementations harnessing the power of SAP S/4HANA across enterprise lines of business functions.

“SAP S/4HANA ERP platform is an integral part of enterprise digital transformation – enabling enterprises to build a well-orchestrated applications landscape. SAP owns a lion’s share of the ERP market and its S/4HANA platform has shown meaningful growth underpinned by its platform capabilities and strong partner ecosystem,” said Yugal Joshi, Vice President, Everest Group. 

“TCS’s IP tools and solutions, coupled with its global delivery network and partner ecosystem have enabled it to deliver scaled implementations for S/4HANA. Clients have also benefited from its cost-effective delivery model and flexibility in solutions. Taken together, these efforts have earned TCS Leader placement on Everest Group’s S/4HANA Services PEAK Matrix Assessment 2021,” Joshi added.

Embracing RISE with SAP

TCS has reaffirmed its long-standing alliance with SAP by launching the business transformation services in support of RISE with SAP, a milestone offering to propel customers’ holistic transformation into intelligent enterprises. Together SAP and TCS will help customers accelerate the journey to an intelligent enterprise with RISE with SAP and TCS’s value-added services including:

• TCS Crystallus, a set of pre-configured industry and business solutions, contextualised to address specific industry requirements. It leverages SAP’s intelligent technologies to accelerate business transformations and SAP S/4HANA adoption.
• TCS ConvertCore offers a built-in modular approach that allows enterprises to drive continuous business value and help enterprises to accelerate system conversion to SAP S/4HANA.

Tiwari shared that partnering on RISE with SAP encourages differentiated value creation through innovation and collective knowledge, allowing customers to experience customised transformation journeys and innovate at speed and scale to realise the value of their investment.

“TCS is delighted to integrate its Consulting-Led Enterprise Transformation Framework with SAP’s new offering to accelerate our customers’ transformation journeys,” he further said.

Dr. Uwe Grigoleit, Senior Vice President and General Manager, SAP S/4HANA, SAP, said:

“The RISE with SAP offering helps simplify our customers’ move to the cloud and will help deliver continuous innovation throughout their journey to become an intelligent enterprise. Together with our strong ecosystem, we will help customers chart a course for their business transformation.”

TCS is a Platinum sponsor of SAPPHIRE NOW 2021, offering a live workshop entitled Drive Performance and Gain Competitive Edge with Strategic Transformation. For the Asia Pacific regional event happening on June 21-24, 2021, participants will have the chance to meet with TCS business leaders and experts to discuss their strategic business transformation initiatives and harness the capabilities of SAP S/4HANA and intelligent technologies.

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Mumbai-based Tata Consultancy Services, a global leader in IT services, consulting, technology, and digital solutions, is in the process of developing a new intelligent solution for the investment management and market infrastructure industry leveraging SAP Business Technology Platform. SAP’s platform offers a portfolio of solutions that gives enterprises the ability to adapt rapidly to change irrespective of their landscape and provides a faster way to turn data into business value.

TCS’ Investment Insights solution, which utilises the SAP Business Technology Platform, aims to help asset managers and market infrastructure firms leverage insights from harmonised data for superior portfolio design.

Prab Pitchandi, Global Head, BFSI CDO Strategic Initiatives, TCS, shared that the consulting firm has been delving into research and innovation in the capital markets domain. Aside from achieving a world-leading intellectual property, TCS’ continuous investment in that sector also empowered the consultancy firm to offer new differentiated services and solutions that would accelerate its customers’ digital transformation.

“TCS’ Investment Insights solution leverages our strong domain capabilities, contextual knowledge, and deep expertise in advanced analytics and insights to help customers transform their data into strategic investment insights for superior business outcomes,” he added.

Building an Intelligent Solution with SAP

Expressing the excitement on the development of the solution for the investment management and market infrastructure industry with TCS, Falk Rieker, Global Head of Banking & Capital Markets at SAP, said:

“SAP has a long history providing innovative technology to the world’s leading capital markets firms and will continue to support it with our industry cloud strategy. By leveraging the industry expertise, commitment to quality delivery, and customer focus, the teams at TCS and SAP are helping businesses make the transformational move to the Intelligent Enterprise.”

“Automation and innovation technologies such as machine learning facilitate faster time to production with less implementation risk. The current environment is driving organisations to innovate faster than ever. This partnership leverages the SAP Business Technology Platform to allow firms to adapt quickly to enhance their internal processes or create new data services to fill ever-changing market needs. This will enable industry participants to become market leaders in financial markets data and analytics,” Rieker further explained.

SAP Business Technology Platform has been enabling businesses to focus on providing solutions to specific business needs by combining technologies from four market categories (database and data management, application development and integration, analytics, and intelligent technologies) along with value creation scenarios. The platform can turn data into business value, compose end-to-end business processes, and build and extend SAP applications quickly.

“TCS’ Investment Insights solution is an outcome of our deep understanding of the capital markets industry and our co-innovation partnership with SAP. It will help our investment management and market infrastructure customers accelerate their product innovation, accelerate their Business 4.0 transformation journeys and gain a competitive advantage,” stressed Prashant Shirgur, Global Head, SAP Practice, TCS.

Leveraging AI techniques and TCS’ intellectual property such as Automated Data Discovery and Machine Learning-based Data Quality Management tools, the Investment Insights solution is anticipated to enhance investment management firms’ portfolio decisioning. 

Furthermore, the solution is designed to provide market infrastructure firms with a strong digital platform to streamline end-to-end data management, enhance their data offerings, and offer value-added services. Available on-premise or on the cloud, the TCS solutions will enable a 360° view of investments, ESG integration, black swan financial impact modelling, and yield optimisation strategies.

More About SAP Business Technology Platform

As businesses ease into the new world of work, SAP has also designed unique packages combining SAP Business Technology Platform solutions to help customers thrive in fast-changing environments, be able to react rapidly to new realities, and make bold decisions with insight-based confidence. The offerings focus on the following:

• Emergency response communications
• Intelligent process management
• Insight-driven decisions-making

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Tata Consultancy Services established its headquarters in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. At present, it has more than 149 offices across 46 countries.

In mid-2019, TCS partnered with SAP Leonardo in launching an Intelligent Field Inventory Management Solution, which will be beneficial in streamlining the logistics and supply chain management of surgical kits to hospitals. The success of this solution is one of the many proofs of TCS as a reliable SAP partner in delivering solutions that leverage the power of the latest technologies.

In an article published on its website, TCS reported its latest partnership. Tne Indian multinational IT company has announced its collaboration with Coop Sweden, one of the largest grocery and retail providers in the country. TCS will help the hypermarket company in accelerating its business’ digital transformation program by introducing agile ways of doing work and embracing new automation technologies. 

The partnership is expected to help the business in delivering a consistent customer experience for both its digital and physical platforms. The retail company also sees the collaboration as a way to prepare for the business’ future by addressing its digital needs. TCS will help Coop Sweden’s SAP S/4HANA Retail platform by leveraging the newest automation technologies and new applications.

Liselotte Andersson, the CIO of Coop Sweden, shared how the transformation helped the company, noting that, at present, the company has more than 800 locations in Sweden alone and that managing a complex portfolio of retail IT-systems will be a challenge.

Andersson said that a strategic partner to help them would be beneficial in improving customer and employee experience. She shared how TCS’ proven track record in delivering solutions for the retail sector made the consultancy company a natural choice to meet Coop Sweden’s digital needs. She also noted TCS’s close partnership with the German software company, SAP, and their experience in delivering HANA digital platform.

She said:

“… TCS’ close partnership with SAP will enable us to harness the true value of the HANA digital platform. We look forward to enjoying the benefits of this partnership.”

Meanwhile, Avinash Limaye, the Country Manager for Tata Consultancy Services Sweden, shared that grocery and retail businesses have access to opportunities in serving customers. 

Limaye expressed delight in partnering with Coop Sweden and leveraging TCS’ expertise in technologies such as automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT).

He said:

“We are delighted to partner Coop in transforming every element of its farm to fork value chain leveraging our deep domain knowledge and our expertise in AI, IoT, and automation.”

TCS also shared that it has established a close working relationship with some of the leading companies across industries in Sweden, such as financial, retail, and telecommunications. These companies include Ikea, the global furniture and home accessories company; the postal company, PostNord; the financial services company, Nordea; the processing and packaging solutions company, Tetra Pak, and the network telecommunications company, Ericsson.

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