TCS announces partnership with CAST

MUMBAI, INDIA: CAST, a Software Analysis and Measurement company, and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India's largest IT exporter, on Wednesday announced a strategic partnership to offer TCS' enterprise IT clients the Software Quality Guardian service powered by CAST Application Intelligence Platform (AIP).

Providing the Service for complex mission-critical business applications, TCS consultants will automatically analyze and measure the essential structural quality attributes (reliability, security, performance, and maintainability) of client applications, whether developed by TCS or by other vendors, via the embedded CAST AIP, said a press release.

The service will aim to reduce the risk of high impact business disruptions due to corrupted data, application outages, security breaches and performance problems.

“TCS is proud to offer innovative solutions that will have a significant impact on our clients' business,” said Siva Ganesan, head of TCS Assurance Services Unit (ASU). “We have identified Software Analysis and Measurement as a new market that will become increasingly crucial for mission-critical business applications and CAST is the leading technology provider in this space. TCS ASU is now heavily promoting its Software Quality Guardian® to its customers and prospects.”

“CAST is excited to partner with TCS, a world-class systems integrator and IT consulting services firm, to extend our scalability and penetration within the Global 2000,” said Vincent Delaroche, CEO of CAST. “The strategic partnership with TCS reinforces CAST’s proven technology and leadership in the growing market to automate Software Analysis and Measurement.”