Royal Haskoning ties up with TCS for IT infrastructure

IT services, consulting and business solutions firm TCS has announced today that it will enable Royal Haskoning in its plans for rapid growth across markets by providing a flexible and controlled support environment. Towards this objective, the two companies have signed a multi-year multi-million IT infrastructure deal which will form the base for Royal Haskoning’s future operating model.

The scope of the project covers end to end IT infrastructure services, which will be provided from TCS’ global delivery centers in the Netherlands, Hungary and India. The services include a multi-lingual service desk, data center hosting and management, end user computing services, application support services and transformation solutions.

This engagement will help the Dutch technical consulting firm, Royal Haskoning optimize their existing assets and allow them to focus on their business performance and international growth plans in Europe and emerging markets. “We face interesting new challenges and consistent experience of service delivery is essential for us to be successful. In Tata Consultancy Services we have found a full service partner offering us round the clock service, broad expertise and experience and strong technology alliances. Their delivery model will give our company the necessary support,” said Eric Overvoorde, Chief Information Officer, Royal Haskoning.

TCS already has a robust presence in the Dutch market, where it operates a global delivery center (Eindhoven) and has over 1000 experts catering to leading companies such as KLM, ABN AMRO, Rabobank and the ING Group. It also marks another step forward in the trend of leading companies looking at growth in emerging markets and consequently looking for innovative ways of setting-up their operating model to support this expansion. “The partnership with Royal Haskoning is another example of how our full services play executed in our Global Network Delivery Model(TM) and supporting multiple languages, delivers real business value to our customers looking for growth,” said Shankar Narayanan, Director and Head, Benelux at TCS.