TCS Wins 2015 SAP® Pinnacle Award

TCS today announced that it has received the 2015 SAP® Pinnacle Award for Run SAP Partner of the Year for the third year in a row, and was a 2015 finalist for the Services Transformation Partner of the Year.

SAP presents these awards annually to the top partners that have excelled in developing and growing their partnership with SAP and helping customers run better. Winners and finalists in 22 categories were chosen based on recommendations from the SAP field, customer feedback and performance indicators in the following umbrella categories: Exponential Growth, Cloud, Platform, and Value Creation.

TCS is among an elite group of only 19 partners worldwide in 2015 to win an SAP Pinnacle Award, and one of only 45 companies out of 12,800 organizations in SAP’s broad partner ecosystem (less than 1 percent) shortlisted as an SAP Pinnacle Awards finalist. These accolades showcase TCS’ excellence in driving SAP business and co-innovation, and helping SAP and TCS mutual customers to run better.

“Thank you to SAP for honoring us with this prestigious award. We continue to invest with SAP – to support best practices and co-innovate with new SAP technologies. This recognition acknowledges our leadership and commitment to delivering world-class consulting services,” said Akhilesh Tiwari, Global Head ofTCS’ SAP Practice. “I also want to thank our clients who put their trust in us, and our SAP Practice consultants who consistently deliver outstanding work to our customers.”

In addition to these esteemed SAP accolades, TCS was recently recognized by Gartneras a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Worldwide SAP Application Management Service Providers, and as the third-place provider in large-, midsize- and small-scope and -scale deals in Critical Capabilities.

TCS is a US$15.5+ billion company and one of the largest and fastest-growing partners of SAP with more than 13,500 dedicated SAP consultants. TCS has grown its SAP business 30 percent in each of the last two years alone, and now has more than 450 SAP projects around the world that serve as world-class proof points of the results generated for clients.

TCS’ SAP Practice has implemented end-to-end solution operations to dramatically improve the finance, manufacturing, distribution, procurement and other operations of many large global firms. Benefits that TCS’ customers have achieved include:

• Reduced operations costs by 15 percent (Swiss provider of forwarding and logistics services)
• Reduced daily interface monitoring efforts by 42 percent (Indian direct broadcast satellite television provider)
• Reduced daily monitoring person hours by 50 percent (premier engineering solution provider)
• Reduced daily manual monitoring efforts from 120 to 30 minutes (global communications technology provider)

“More and more companies are choosing solutions from SAP than ever before, and in many ways, we attribute that to the strength and commitment of our partners,” said Rodolpho Cardenuto, president, Global Partner Operations, SAP. “Together, we are working with partners like TCS to help our customers run simply and at their best. TCS exemplifies leadership and a can-do attitude, and we congratulate everyone involved in TCS’ organization for this well-deserved 2015 SAP Pinnacle Award.”

Award winners will be formally recognized at the SAP Global Partner Summit being held on May 4, in conjunction with SAPPHIRE® NOW, SAP’s international customer conference being held in Orlando, Fla., May 5-7. TCS is the exclusive sponsor of theSAP concert at SAPPHIRE NOWwith pop superstar Jennifer Lopez.