TCS Positioned As Leader In IDC Marketscape For Worldwide Manufacturing PLM System Integrator & BPO Services

NEW YORK | MUMBAI: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS) has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Manufacturing Product Lifecycle Management System Integrator & BPO services.

“Manufacturers across industries are facing challenges in keeping up with the transformation in the product ecosystem as smart technologies and new business models evolve. TCS helps organizations leverage PLM as a foundation to establish a Digital Thread which will provide the foundation needed to adapt to changing business environments, reimagine the value chain, innovate faster and improve the time to market for new smart products,” said Regu Ayyaswamy, Global Head, IoT and Digital Engineering unit, TCS. “This recognition is a reflectionof our vision, strategy, PLM expertise and the resultant market success.”

TCS combines digital technologies like IoT, analytics, cloud, and mobile along with lifecycle capabilities to help enterprises unlock new possibilities like transitioning from product-based business models to those centered on services and customer experience, promoting agility in new product introduction, reducing product lifecycle costs and supporting sustainability goals.

TCS is helping leading organizations in the manufacturing industry successfully realize the benefits of PLM by leveraging its expertise across the entire product lifecycle from understanding market requirements, design/development and manufacturing toservice and end-of-life. This broad spectrum of coverage enables TCS to provide holistic servicesthat deliver predictable business outcomes forclients’ PLM investments.

Building on this extensive expertise, TCS offers its clients a Digital Thread approach to manage the complexities of smart, connected product development, which are increasingly software centric. It utilizes industry focused accelerators and new age practices that accelerate digital transformation and enablefaster ROI from investments.

TCS Digital Thread Consulting services help organization define their approach. It also provides system integration capabilities to deliver the roadmap effectively and efficiently. The TCS Digital Thread solution transformsthe product lifecycle management strategy to ensure business agility and establishes a connected data flow across the product value chain, providing contextual insights that enable data driven decisions.

Other offerings include:

• Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) services, comprising MBSE maturityassessment, consolidation of MBSE tools landscape, defining the adoption roadmap, and accelerating the deployment of MBSE solutions.TCShelps organizations model the complex relationships between product systems and sub systems in order to manage the systems engineering lifecycle from requirements anddesign to verification andvalidation.
• Integrated Application Lifecycle Management framework helps organizations manage the entire embedded software development lifecycle by addressing requirements management, traceability, continuous integration and delivery, integrated validation management, agile project management, real time reporting, compliance management and ecosystem collaboration.
• Digital Twin and Digital Thread Convergence frameworkfor Connected Digital Enterprise helps organizations connect the complete product value chain, enabling data flow across the digital definition and the physical product to bring actionable insights to improve asset performance and drive continuous innovation.

About IDC MarketScape: IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.

¹ IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Manufacturing PLM Systems Integrator and BPO Services 2022 Vendor Assessment, John Snow, November 2022, IDC #US49838022, IDC