TCS expands strategic partnership with Virgin Atlantic

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is set to expand its strategic partnership with Virgin Atlantic, one of UK’s leading airlines, to help the latter embark on a new phase of recovery and growth. 

Continuing its partnership of 17 years, TCS will now take exclusive responsibility for end-to-end operational management and digital transformation. This includes technology operations, wherein TCS will enable Virgin Atlantic to leverage the best of Microsoft Azure via a series of technology & business transformation initiatives. In addition, TCS will build innovative digital solutions with Cloud-First guiding principles to help Virgin improve technology resilience, agility, and performance in its purpose-led transformation. 

The expanded engagement will utilise the contextual knowledge and expertise of an integrated team, consisting of TCS and Virgin Atlantic’s people to run & transform the airline’s end-to-end technology operations. It will see over 70 of Virgin Atlantic’s technology team transfer to TCS, bringing together diverse talent within one integrated team. 

Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting & business solutions organisation that has been partnering with many of the world’s largest businesses to offer a consulting-led, cognitive-powered, an integrated portfolio of business, technology along with engineering services & solutions. 

On Friday at 12.29 pm, the stock of TCS was trading 2.9 per cent higher at Rs 3,309.00 from its previous close of Rs 3,216.05 on BSE.