Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has expanded its partnership with The Co-operative Group Limited (Co-op), one of the world’s largest consumer cooperatives with businesses in food, funeral, insurance and legal services, and Adopting a cloud-first strategy will support the group’s business growth.
TCS has been a strategic partner of the Co-op for the past 14 years, supporting many critical business and workplace transformations. These include retail business transformation, core systems transformation and franchising initiatives. These initiatives have helped the Co-op accelerate time to market, create new revenue streams, and enhance its agility to respond immediately to emerging business scenarios.
The expanded partnership will enable TCS to help co-ops transition from a traditional data center model to a fully managed, scalable cloud environment powered by TCS Enterprise Cloud. This move to a scalable cloud will assist cooperatives and lay the foundation for future capabilities and growth, while reducing energy use and supporting sustainability goals. TCS will also manage hybrid cloud and SaaS assets to enhance resiliency and agility.
Co-op Group CDIO Rob Elsey said: “We are delighted to expand our strategic partnership with TCS to enable us to achieve the Co-op’s business objectives and provide service and support to our member-owners, who are our core members .Business. They have been a great partner, aligned with our growth priorities and supporting change and transformation in the way our business works and on our cloud journey as we embark on a path of continued expansion into the future.”
Shekar Krishnan, head of retail and consumer goods for TCS UK and Europe, said: “TCS is delighted to extend our long-standing partnership with The Co-operative Group. Our background knowledge, deep domain expertise and technical capabilities will help the Co-op achieve its goals cloud-first strategy and build a resilient digital foundation to support its business growth.”
TCS is one of the UK’s largest providers of IT services, consulting and business solutions by revenue. It has been operating in the region for over 45 years and works with over 200 of the country’s best-known and most popular businesses. The company currently employs over 23,000 people across the UK and Ireland and is one of the largest IT employers in the region. TCS has been named the UK’s number one IT services provider for customer satisfaction in an independent survey of CIOs from the UK’s largest IT spending organizations.
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