Tata Consultancy Services Makes Major Automotive Industry Push During SAE 2005 World Congress

Ferrari's F1 Car, Featuring TCS Technologies and Engineering Solutions, Will Also Be on Display

DETROIT, April 11 -- Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Asia's largest IT Services Company, will highlight its growing presence in Motown and its suite of engineering and technology solutions for the automotive industry at the centennial SAE 2005 World Congress in Detroit, MI from April 11 - 14, 2005. As a leading global IT services provider, TCS has deep domain expertise, industry credibility and experience in the global automotive community.

"The automotive sector is a key focus area for TCS and we are working with industry leaders worldwide to address many of the imperatives facing the auto industry, including environmental, safety and health issues, and to create cost-effective solutions," said TCS CEO and Managing Director, S. Ramadorai. "TCS has done pioneering work in the field of engineering and IT services for many of the leading automotive majors and we aim to provide solutions from art to part for our customers," he added.

Riding on its recent success with Ferrari, TCS officials say they are well poised to strategically help automotive companies achieve their business and technology objectives. TCS has established an Automotive Center of Excellence (ACOE) in Detroit to focus specifically on strategizing and delivering valuable end-to-end IT, manufacturing and engineering consulting and services, and outsourcing solutions to automotive customers in North America.

The ACOE is an extension of TCS' current presence in Detroit, where the firm maintains a development center dedicated to servicing local customers. Services that are provided include new product introduction (NPI), product engineering, process engineering, industrial automation, enterprise asset management, embedded systems, and supply chain optimization.

At SAE, automotive executives from TCS will participate in two panel discussions on motor racing. John Waraniak, Director of TCS' Automotive Center of Excellence (ACOE) in Detroit, will moderate a panel discussion on grassroots racing and the business opportunities it presents to automakers, suppliers, aftermarket, and consumer product companies during the Tuesday, April 12 technical session entitled "Exciting the Weekend Warriors Means Profits for the OEM and Suppliers."

In addition, Dr. Gautam Sardar, Head of the Research and Technology Group of TCS' Engineering and Industrial Business Services business unit, will address the role of intelligent systems in enhancing the performance of F1 racing cars during the Wednesday, April 13 technical session entitled "Electronic Technology Applied to Formula 1."

As another highlight of TCS' presence at SAE 2005, attendees will be able to view a Ferrari Formula One Racing Car. In partnership with TCS, Ferrari will show the car at the AVL Theatre throughout the conference. Late last year, Ferrari announced that it had selected TCS to help provide IT and engineering services to support the Ferrari team in Maranello, Italy, for the development of the F1 2005 racing car.

TCS' wide solution range spans the entire product and process lifecycles, driving optimization for automotive clients, as well as customers in other industries, from start to finish. This encompasses providing concept to component to aftermarket services with regard to product lifecycle management, and process design to operations and maintenance with regard to process lifecycle management.

In addition to the collaborative work of the ACOE in the US, TCS' automotive customers benefit from TCS' Global Engineering Center (GEC), a seamless extension of the Customer's Engineering arm that leverages the availability of highly trained and skilled individuals at its global development centers across the world to generate significant economies of scale over a short period of time.

About Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is the world-leading information technology consulting, services, and business process outsourcing organization that envisioned and pioneered the adoption of the flexible global business practices that today enable companies to operate more efficiently and produce more value.

TCS achieved this by creating and perfecting a unique method of global deployment and delivery of high quality, high value services and products in IT consulting and business process outsourcing. Known as the "Global Delivery Model," this strategic services delivery concept has reshaped the IT services industry.

More than 75% of TCS customers reward the company's reliability, passion, creativity, and unique ability to handle the broadest range of their IT needs by continually extending and deepening their partnerships with TCS. With more than 38,000 of the world's best trained IT consultants located in 32 countries, TCS is uniquely positioned to deliver its flexible world class services seamlessly to any location.

TCS reported consolidated revenues of $1.56 billion (U.S.) in the fiscal year 2003-2004. The company is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India. For more information: www.tcs.com.