Bombardier Transportation joins hands with TCS

Tata Consultancy Services, the leading IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, has been selected by Bombardier Transportation, a global leader in rail transportation technology, to manage its IT infrastructure for newly commissioned data centers.

The Multi-year, multi-million deal, is the first that TCS has signed with a rail-transportation technology provider. As part of the contract, TCS will provide remote infrastructure management (RIM) to Bombardier Transportation’s recently established data centers in Germany. The new data centers will establish a leading-edge technology platform for Bombardier, through introduction of private cloud services paired with a high level of virtualization.

Besides standard RIM Services, managing server, storage, network and security services, TCS will also operate and be responsible for all operational processes within Bombardier Transportation’s data centres. TCS will also provide SAP Basis support to Bombardier Transportation.

“As a world leader in rail transportation, with operations in over 60 countries, our business requires a global mindset. India is central to Bombardier’s Information Services strategy – our relationship with TCS offers operational excellence in markets around the world,” says Thomas Leidenbach, Vice President IS Infrastructure, Bombardier Transportation.

Sapthagiri Chapalapalli, Head of Central Europe at TCS, informs, ”This is a strategic step forward for TCS as it establishes us as a partner of choice for infrastructure services in the German market. Bombardier Transportation is executing a next generation IT Infrastructure program to drive efficiency, reliability and transparency. Our deep domain expertise and best practices will help Bombardier meet these strategic transformation objectives.”

TCS’ Central Europe operations (an operating area cutting across Germany and Austria) comprise over 4,000 professionals, servicing more than 80 leading German and Austrian companies such as Commerzbank, Daimler, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Börse, as well as growing set of Upper midsize companies. The TCS Proximity Solution Center in Düsseldorf for high-end projects and programs serves as a front end to the TCS Global Network Delivery Model, offering local-delivery capabilities and flexibility to German customers.