University of California Honors Tata Consultancy Services With Distinguished Corporate Partner Award

University of California Honors Tata Consultancy Services With Distinguished Corporate Partner Award

Award Highlights One Example of TCS’ Commitment to

Academic Research in the United States

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: TCS.BO, NSE: TCS.NS), a leading global IT services, business solutions and outsourcing firm, today announced that it has received the first annual Distinguished Corporate Partner award from the Bourns College of Engineering at The University of California, Riverside. The award recognizes TCS’ support to advance superior technology, research and service to the University and local community.

In selecting TCS as the winner, the research faculty at University of California, Riverside, considered several key criteria including: TCS’ efforts in fostering innovative research through active collaborative projects with faculty; providing opportunities for student scholarships, internships, recruitment and mentoring; advancing growth of new technologies and competitiveness by demonstrating outstanding commitment and dedication to the vision, mission, and goals of Bourns College and the University.

“TCS has a long history of investing in and working with various leading universities in the United States and is committed to partnering with academia around the world. We value the innovative research insights and responsiveness that our academic partners provide customers as part of our co-Innovation Network. TCS and UCR have a rich tradition of collaborating on leading technology research projects in the areas of data management, computer security, and networking,” said K. Ananth Krishnan, chief technology officer, Tata Consultancy Services.

“By providing significant public service and support, TCS has played an important role in accelerating the development of core technology and supporting the University, the Bourns College and the local community,” said Dean Reza Abbaschian, Bourns College of Engineering, University of California, Riverside.

About Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, business solutions and outsourcing organization that delivers real results to global businesses, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT and IT-enabled services delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model™, recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the Tata Group, India’s largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 89,000 of the world’s best trained IT consultants in 47 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $4.3 billion for fiscal year ended 31 March, 2007 and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India. For more information, visit us at www.tcs.com.

For more information, please contact: Sanjay Chaudhary / Rishi Seth / Manpreet Singh, Vaishnavi Corporate Communications, 9810203810 / 9871741875 / 9810286337, sanjayc {at} vccpl(.)com / rseth {at} vccpl(.)com / manpreet.singh {at} vccpl(.)com